I was watching a quick video about the mental abuse that Michael Jackson suffered and what prompted him to get plastic surgery and change his appearance so much.

He obviously had low self esteem and had the temperament and sensitivity of a child.

I can understand a little bit of what he went through because I was called ugly so much as a child...even by other family members.
As a kid growing up, I too was told my nose was too big and even though I'm lighter skinned....was often called "Black and Ugly" by some adults and kids.
It WILL fuck up your esteem.
Some more than others.

It's a shame how we as a people often do this to our own children.

I look at other races and how they interact with their children and I often see White and Latina mothers smiling at their children, looking deep in their eyes, kissing on them, playing with them, calling them handsome and beautiful.....and then I look at a lot of AfroAmerican mothers who are constantly yelling at their children and cussing at them and barely looking at them except to scold them or express disappointment.

How can children be expected to grow up well adjusted when they feel that their own community and sometimes their own parents don't even want them?

Michael would not have lasted 5 minutes growing up in my neighborhood... SMH

I don't think Michael's father turned him into the man he became, sadly I believe was just born that way. We all had pimples for Christ's sake. He was actually a handsome guy. I guess he had body dysmorphia. He needed help.

Yeah, clearly Michael was very sensitive.

I get the sense that it may have just been "in" him to be so soft and sensitive but on the other hand he never really got to enjoy a normal functional childhood.
He was forced to behave as an adult since he was 6 or 7....which meant a lot of faking and no actual maturity and emotionally/social growth.

No doubt, his father shared in atleast SOME of his dysfunctionality, because it wasn't just Michael but his other siblings.

Look at Janet and how she got her nose done!

...but growing up in a racist society that told them that unless their skin was light, hair was straight, and nose was thin.....that they were ugly, carries the bulk of the blame.

@Pioneer1 why drag Janet into this? let’s see a picture of you when you were 18 and a picture of you when you were 50 of course you’re gonna look different. What did that prove?

Plenty of white people get those jobs. What are they trying to do make their nose look whiter?

I have no idea what Joe Jackson did to his kids other than help make them global superstars. You clearly have a great deal of affinity for Michael Jackson, and are willing to blame everyone else in the world for his behavior leaving nothing Michael himself other than being “very sensitive.”

I think Michael was a very weird guy at best, a pedophile at worst, who brought joy to a lot of people through his music and dancing.

17 minutes ago, Troy said:

I have no idea what Joe Jackson did to his kids other than help make them global superstars.

I have never criticized Joe Jackson because the reality of the matter is if that father didn't push his offspring into entertainment they probably would have ended up being factory workers in Gary, Indiana.

Nobody can imagine Michael Jackson making widgets or buffing floors in a warehouse & walking back & forth to work with a lunchbox.🤣

Joe jackson, a Black man, did whatever it took to make his family rich. It worked too.😎