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Thinking of making a video about Michael Jackson CHOOSING to have Vitaligo (skin whitening disease)

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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There is a strong circunstancial case that he chose to be white. I know it will upset the fans but I have the photos of his skin whitening progression, the story of his body disphobia, the medical evidence that it's possible to take pills to produce Vitaligo type effects, his sister's whitening, his father's bullying for being too black, his unlikely claim that it runs in his family (no evidence, no relatives ever found), his comment that it "creates itself" (which is how he describes music, and he is a manifestation of art).

If you add it all up, it fits with a guy who chose to be white.

[–] johnnm58 (545) 6 years ago

It's 2018

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77999) 6 years ago

I never believed the vitiligo story, I suspect that MJ was just a bit off and over did the cosmetic surgeries...I also will never believe that he did bad things to kids, though he sure did leave himself open to allegations with his dumb behavior (I suspect he was 'asexual' to be honest, the guy acted like a little kid)

Jackson was just odd, but a fantastic entertainer...I miss the guy, he just seemed confused and out of it all the time

They will certainly do a good biopic on him someday

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I am unsure of the abuse. I was shocked when two other close friends of his said they were abused after his death. They said it suing so I can't believe them but one was his buddy from the bad tour, who I always thought had kept a dignified silence about his friendship.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yeah, I suspect he was asexual as well and child like.

Also I don’t believe in vitiligo story, I know two people who have it, and it is not even whitening of the skin all over, but they have white spots and parts of the body.

There is a model Winnie Harlow who has vitiligo and she looks like this:

https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/amp23050851/model-winnie-harlow-victorias-secret-show/

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77999) 6 years ago

Yeah any time i've seen this the sufferer was patchy, not uniformly lightened

I kind of felt bad for MJ, he was internationally famous and beloved but just got weirder and weirder...
I think he did all of those surgeries because he was never happy being himself
A shame really

[–] slimone (7996) 6 years ago

I don't know how he had such a white face towards the end of his life. But it sure looked weird!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77999) 6 years ago

He did become very odd looking in his last 5-10 years (there are surgeons that can 'bleach' you, though I don't know how...I wouldn't want to know)
Jackson was very strange, he was a very handsome and charming guy as a young man, it always seemed odd that he did all if those stupid plastic surgeries
I always assumed be had self esteem problems, his dad was a bit rough to deal with and the fame suffocated him
Sad story!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He had very black hands up until 91 and then white by 92. You need Vitaligo for that, no bleaching will do that, but the 1 year turnaround makes me think it was chemically induced Vitaligo.

[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

You sound like Fred Flindtone

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Did you ever make it?

[–] Furienna (3355) 3 years ago

Bullshit!
If you want to talk photographical evidence, there are plenty of photos of MJ with vitiligo spots on his skin.

And I don't see what you would be getting out of ridiculing him years after he's gone anyway.
Let him rest in peace!

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21579) 3 years ago

Don’t feed the troll.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

After he died, somehow pictures of the naked corpse became available, and a lot of his skin was indeed speckled and mottled with white spots. The coroner's report called it "vitiligo", but some online commentators said "But that's the kind of skin damage you get if you overuse skin lightening creams!".

So which was it? I don't know, pasty white people like me don't have any reason to use skin lightening creams, and those who do don't talk to us about it. I just think that the people who say it's skin-lightening damage could well be right, because the coroner doesn't actually give a rat's ass whether the discoloration was from vitiligo or skin-lighteners. It was the coroner's job to figure out what killed the subject, not to give opinions or diagnoses of cosmetic issues.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

His pigment under his nails was dark because he could never treat those areas. He was bleaching his boat after the pills had suppressed his ability to make pigment.

If you see him up until 1991, his hands were still black. Normally the hands go white first.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

Bleaching his boat???

[–] AndyKing1967 (39094) 3 years ago

I’m guessing Cockney rhyming slang - boat race = face (Cock-ker-nee Andy).

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

My guess is that he can't spell "butt".

[–] AndyKing1967 (39094) 3 years ago

That's far funnier - let's go with that, lol.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I heard it in a British doco on MJ, and I liked it. They said "did Michael have a disease or was he bleaching his boat?"