On Michael Jackson: Kojo Is A Hater!
Today, soothing WAMU radio host Kojo Nnamdi prefaced a call-in hour by going off on all things Michael Jackson. He sorta boasted to listeners that his show had been a Michael Jackson Free Zone this past week. He then explained his confusion as to why African American leaders and African American Professor types would debase themselves on cable chat shows extolling the King of Pop’s Black Power credentials and deep ties to the African-American community. He said that anyone under 30 would have only known Jackson as Wacko—an alleged child molesting freak with a damaged nose. For a generation, Jackson’s talents were seen only in montage clips.
The man didn’t want to look like me, Nnamdi argued. And he went out of his way to not look like me. One of several callers took the bait and argued on MJ’s behalf citing psychological and biological trauma as the cause of the singer’s skin whitening and plastic surgery obsession. Nnamdi just argued back: “I can’t embrace him.”
When another caller chimed to bash WMATA on its failed safety proceedures and the metro crash, Nnamdi admitted to having no expertise on the subject. The metro crash was a mystery to him. Jackson was another matter.
*photo courtesy of WAMU.
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2:27 pm
Why would anyone care what Kojo thinks about Michael Jackson?
3:04 pm
Better to be thought a fool rather open your mouth and remove all doubt. A rare mis-step by Kojo. Rather than simply say “my prayers are for the Jackson family” and leave it at that, Kojo goes on a Black Intelligensia tip. Black folk, even the BET Awards Show types are not deceived and know full well about Michael’s surgeries and other melanin issues. However, in death, we still embrace him based on something that surgeries couldn’t…his ethnicity. For what it is worth, his surgeries didn’t constitute a wholesale denial of his ethnic heritage. Black people STILL bought his music! Kojo, as “radical” as Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Spike Lee are, even they had something to say POSITIVE about the Michael Jackson. Tell Kojo that he won’t lose his “Black Card”, daishiki, etc. just because he embraces Michael Jackson.
In the words of ‘Huh?’, “Why would anyone care what Kojo thinks about Michael Jackson?”
10:08 am
Ha, well, it’s difficult to see why Kojo Nnamdi would debase himself with that utterly contrived accent, so I guess it’s about even.
8:12 pm
HE WAS CUTE WHEN HE WAS YOUNG BUT WHEN HE GOT OLDER HE DID NOT LOOK RIGHT LIKE WHEN HE WAS DOING THAT PEPSI COMERSHALL HE GOT HIS HAIR BURNT I KNO THAT OUT HIS HAIR AND EVERYTHING ELSE BUT I STILL LOVE HIM AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART EVEN THOU HED IS DID LOVE YOU MICHAEL JACKSON