MJ was an adorable, almost preternaturally talented little black kid who grew into quite a handsome, talented young man- and then he morphed into a creepy old white lady.
"You could argue that his ever more pallid complexion made him the pithiest shorthand for pop’s history: in splendid contrast to Little Richard and Pat Boone, he was the first black singer to become his own lucrative white cover version."
-- from Mark Steyn's obituary Beyond the Pale: Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009