The thing is most of MJ present, hardcore fanbase are probably non-black who became fans in the last 20 to 10 yrs. They know Michael no other way. I mean some of them think he still looked very "black" in the late 80s, when those of us who had been following his career well before then, were horrified at how much he had transformed by the time the album "Bad" came out, but to many of them that was when he was at his most "beautiful". They probably have never seen MJ with his 10 foot high afro, to think that having long, drippy curly perm is very common to amongst black people, well yeah if it is chemically process...

I try not to be to too hard on MJ fans because I do know that many of them were attracted to him because of his "weird looks", the drama in his life, etc. I guess its different strokes for different folks.

whatsgoingon said:

While I can understand that, these people also live in the real world. They have seen pictures of Michael Jackson before 1989; in fact, they can see pictures of MJ at the beginning of the '80s and see a drastic difference. They also have seen other black men in real life -- when have they ever seen another black man look remotely like that? If you were to believe MJ, only his nose was evidently altered and it took him some time to confess his chin was altered so this is a mostly "natural" look.
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DarlingDiana said:

What the hell about this man looks "normal" to you????? You have to be kidding me. What other human being, besides the equally whacked out Latoya, is walking around God's green earth looking like this? If I saw a creature like that walking down the street, I would run. He looks like Michael Myers from Haloween. And I'm not saying that to be cruel or funny. I used to love this man.
This is coming from someone who was pratically born and raised on MJ, and who had every intention of marrying him when I was a little girl. I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole now.
That pick someone posted earlier with the brown skin and the fro with his shirt open....I'd lick is dirty drawers back then. Now....Yuck.

I hear you. But alot of his fans like him looking the way he does now. I think he looks awful and has destroyed his natural, good looks, completely. All you need to do is just go to MJ fansites and look at some of the pics people swoon over. Alot of his fans would rather have those kind of pictures of him looking "white and distorted" than even the pictures during the late 70s/early 80s where he had already done a nose job, but still look like the handsome black man he was....Quite frankly I believe most MJ fansites are dedicated to MJ from 1987 onwards.