DINH DOONG

Michael Jackson’s skin and its complete transformation has been a fascination as well as source of controversy for the artist even beyond his death.

A subject matter that has taken almost two years for me to weld the courage and considerable knowledge needed to address and openly discuss this most polarising of issues.

In this video, we go deep into Michael Jackson’s changing skin tone, the development of his disease and what treatments he used to treat, disguise or accelerate his condition.

I personally think he should’ve opened up to the world about his skin condition during his 1986 award speech.

I’m sure the public, especially the fans would understand.

It would’ve been a weight off his shoulders, and it would raise awareness on Vitiligo.

Something like this can be very traumatic, and you can see the sadness in his eyes during those years trying to cover it. Unfortunately he was very private and insecure, which led to the media starting rumors of their own.

I remember as kids, my siblings and I sat around the tv awaiting the world premiere of Black Or White.

We were surprised at how much different he looked at first (Compared to the Thriller and Bad Era), but we were happy that he was back with new music and videos and didn’t focus on the lighter skin tone.

(He always looked cool no matter what!) That’s the way Michael wanted it to be, that we enjoyed and appreciated his talent first and foremost.

Michael had vitiligo. It was on his autopsy report.

It was listed very high up on the report which means it was readily visible to the eye. It was one of the first things noted. It was his choice on how to treat it, no one else’s. It was his business, no one else’s. Besides it doesn’t matter what shade a person’s skin is.

As Michael himself said a person should be judged by the content of their character not the shade of their skin. And the content of Michael’ s character was impeccable.

I think people often forget he was the most famous person pretty much on the planet.

Imagine dealing with several conditions whilst already being insecure from your family teasing you whilst going on stage whilst having millions of people constantly watching you.

I mean you would have to be Jesus himself in order to take the amount criticism Michael took. 99 percent of people would completely break in his situation.