[kevcol]

The nerve...

[mkmensinger]

I understand the outrage. He should be played by a white woman.

[Yaelle]

The actor is too dark to play Michael.

[Oratam]

Someone (Tina Fey?) joked that Michael was born a poor black boy and died a rich white woman.

[Gaffer]

“I’m so incredibly offended by it, as I’m sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit,” she wrote.

So. I'm equally assured she was shocked and offended at Dorothy's portrayal by Diana Ross in the Wiz and by an equally black red-headed actress in the latest Annie? And, need I say a black "Hamilton?" Get off the cross, girl....somebody else needs the wood.

[MNDude]

So they want a black to play the role of a black playing the role of a white?

[john drake]

Gee, I’m not so sure it’s so offensive. He married white women, made himself white noses over time, bleached his skin white and straightened his hair. Sounds like he was trying to be “white”? So what’s the big deal? sarc. Frankly, he was a very handsome man “as is”, as to why he went through the “freak” phase, who knows. His head was really messed up it seems. Peace.

[Grampa Dave]

Life’s ironies can be incredible.

Michael Jackson acted like a White guy most of his life!

Now his rich family due to him, don’t want a White Guy playing/acting like Michael.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Should have been a white woman......

That seemed to be what he turned into.

[King Moonracer]

Where was the outrage when Michael Jackson played a white man?

[TLI]

“I’m so incredibly offended by it, as I’m sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit,” she wrote.

OK, vomit already.

At least it will shut you up.

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ummm...Michael Jackson was a white man. He certainly wasn't black. And Joseph Fiennes isn't a white man. He's more a pink'ishy ecru.

[KC_Lion]

Agreed, Joseph Fiennes has Pink Skin.

Not nearly white enough.

[Leaning Right]

Sky Arts, the U.K. broadcaster of the show, pulled the episode “Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon,” after the trailer for it drew criticism from Jackson’s family.

After reading the headline, I was going to predict that the show would be pulled. But I see I'm too late.

This is yet another example of lefties criticizing - and shutting down - free expression.

[stboz]

Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman.

[Redwood71]

Michael Jackson had a skin condition which affects less than 1% of the worldwide population called Vitiligo. This condition causes depigmentation of the skin in patches. To make this condition seem less apparent to the public he used makeup to try and even out his skin tone. So, what do you do? Take a black man and white his skin only showing the patches of black during the adding of makeup? Or do you take a white man and try to blacken his appearance? This is a no win situation for the role. The only thing would be to find a black actor and make him white. So does this really have to do with the role or the actor?

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[Getready]

Sadly body dysphoria can hit anyone....I wonder if drugs...creative talent..performance anxiety, stressed childhood and b. dysphoria made him go that far in his resculpturing. Very sad case.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

This IS offensive! How can a white man play a white woman?

[Sacajaweau]

Michael turned himself into a freak...in every way.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Good God that guy was so incredibly effed up. A friend of mine knew somebody who worked for Jackson as a bodyguard, he said he had a plastic tip that he would glue to the end of his nose because he had a big hole in it from all the plastic surgery, and I can see it in that photo. If you seen other pics of him, he also use to tape the tip on. Like this pic....That's tape holding his nose tip on...

[joshua c]

So she wants a black actor in Whiteface to play him?