Why Is Michael Jackson Unethical

Michael Joseph Jackson, also known as the king of pop, was a singer, songwriter and dancer who was born on August 29, 1958 in Indiana. His father was a guitarist but he gave that dream up in order to provide for his family as a crane operator. However, he was also the one who formed Jackson 5 in the early 60s; Michael was around 6 years old when he joined the band (Fast, 262). After a couple years he decided to leave the band and become a solo artist. His first solo album as a solo artist was “Off the Wall” but his album “Thriller” was the one that broke all the records. It topped the charts for 9 months and remained in the billboards album chart for more than 2 years. It’s said to have sold more than 110 million records which still makes it
During an interview on Oprah in 1993, Michael Jackson explained to the viewers that he was suffering from vitiligo, which is a rare skin disease where the skin loses its pigmentation. Soon after the interview, allegations of Michael Jackson sexually abusing a thirteen year old boy were made. It was not settled in court since he paid the accuser twenty million dollars. However, the second time he was accused, which was years later, he went to criminal court (Fast, 262). The first allegations he received are referenced throughout the song “They Don’t Care About Us.” The song was one of the singles from his album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, the first album released after the 1993 molestation allegation (Rossiter, 203). The song portrays how the African American community, and other minority groups, are mistreated by the media, police force and the justice system. Michael Jackson died on June 23, 2009 from cardiac arrest, shortly before his comeback tour was going to start (Fast,
It could be implying that the negatives are always shown and that nobody cares about what the accused person has to say. He then goes on to saying, “your proclamation promised me free liberty...they’re throwing me in a class with a bad name” the proclamation brought up would be the Emancipation Proclamation, which set all the slaves free ( ). The class he refers to could be seen in two ways. The first possibility could be that Michael Jackson is referring to how he’s been thrown into the class of being a rapist and a pedophile; the other possibility could be how African Americans are thrown into the class of being thugs or stereotyped as being violent. Jackson then makes a direct reference to the government and its corruption, “you know I really do hate to say it, the government don’t wanna see.” The government could be turning their head to the problems arising within the minorities or the government doesn’t want others to see how inequality and racism is still very much prominent today. Soon after he writes about the corruption within the government, Michael Jackson mentions Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the many presidents of the United States of America, “but if Roosevelt was