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I saw some discourse on some subreddits saying Michael’s childhood wasn’t that bad and I just want to know your thoughts on that

maybe it’s just me but Reddit has become extremely more anti Michael lately than usual. But I guess they sleep well at night knowing they justify literal CHILD LABOR on top of the other forms of trauma Michael and his siblings suffered (religious, emotional, physical…). So much of his necessary development was completely neglected. Not to mention Michael’s boundaries were constantly violated by grown ass adults: his intrusive fans, his father, his brothers hooking up with girls in the same room as him… being forced to perform in adult spaces as a child. And then there’s the whole alleged gross mess with Diana that I don’t feel like getting into.

Michael lived in a fear-based environment where he wasn’t allowed to make mistakes as a damn child and was working harder than most adults. And all of this while having his black body objectified and judged as he grew up in front of the entire world ? Yeah redditors are all just loud and wrong as hell

smsomah

Scanned from the book Oman Adorned: A Portrait in Silver; 1997; Miranda Morris & Pauline Shelton

tariah23

Seated

Stuff like this always makes me remember how sensationalized the “hide your kids, hide your wife” video was, also known as the “bedroom intruder meme” 🗿.

The guy was clearly one of the earliest memes of a black person expressing frustration publicly (it was a news report of the man explaining how he’d run off a predator trying to rape his sister by the way) but in a “funny way” (the way that nbs and whites find entertaining at least because they don’t see black trauma as something that should be given grace, and shown empathy right from the very start over their own intial enjoyment because that’s no fun), and something like this became a huge joke. Like, this meme was literally everywhere in the early 2000’s, and I think people forgot that his sister was almost raped 🧍🏾‍♀️…………………………..!

tariah23

Forgot to mention just in case people start acting stupid oh this post if it randomly blows up (I’m not popular here so I might be free 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀) but the bedroom intruder meme was turned into music, merch, the brother was even on tv shows, and tbh, I personally never cared if poor black folks decide to capitalize off of a meme that made them viral to change their situation. It’s better they get something out of it because whites and nbs are laughing anyway, while making their money off of black trauma. That’s how it always is with these memes. It’s awful.

tariah23

Most ppl who used/ use it to be funny or cute don’t even know who Tyreses ass is 🗿… @stratfender

gothicmj

I’ll be honest, I don’t fuck with non black impersonators. People have tried so hard to associate Michael with whiteness and claim he hated being black. So to see people think they “look” like him just cause of their white features is insulting as hell. Wearing his clothes and doing his dancing is one thing, but non black people will really say that they “resemble” Michael as if he wasn’t a black man first and foremost. Vitiligo ain’t the same as being white. It’s reductive and treating a black person with a skin condition like a costume idc