Why was Michael Jackson stigmatised so harshly?

[Whateverist]

Look as a a black person it's looks super suspicious when just happen to have vitiligo, the you just happen to have a Eurocentric nose job, and just happen to straighten your hair? And he just happed to have all white kids? This doesn't smack of self-hate to you?

As for the kids thing, I think he was a damn obvious kid diddler. People just liked his music and decided the kids were lying so they wouldn't have to face facts.

I think there's all sorts of theories you could talk about when you're looking at Micheal Jackson's appearance.

First of all I was very skeptical about this vitiligo thing, but I watched videos of it on youtube that convinced me he just was a guy with vitiligo, then I just realized I didn't really care enought to continue speculating about it.

I think a lot of people pick different looks that cross racial bounderies and emulate that look, if that makes any sense. Lots of white people burn themselves to look dark risking skin cancer and painful sunburn.  People get afros or dreadlocks.  I'm not necesserily disagreeing with the direction you're going in by saying it could be self hate, but I wouldn't go as far to say that it was self hate.  At least not of his own race, he might just not want to look like his dad.  Plus he was rich and could afford to get surgery at a whim, and could afford to buy friends who just agree with him all the time about everything.  He probably didn't go around with the kind of friends who would say "Don't do that Micheal you're going to look like a proper twat".  These are just my thoughts anyway, just that you don't know what was going around in that guys head.

Hey after all the cultural appropriation my fellow whities have accomplished, who am I to begrudge Michael european facial features if that's what he wants?  But if I'm black I'm thinking he just hates what he -and I- are racially.

Sorry my poor attempts at humor were so oblique.  Saying white people would have trouble with him for being black was just suggesting blatant racism.  Not a view I actually hold by the way, though I do know racist white people most of the people I hang with aren't - or I no longer hang with them.  Is this what is known as "taking the piss"?  I suspect that is what it was supposed to be.  Meh, I wouldn't over think it.