So, I was out in Raleigh the other day and a homeless man approached me and my friends asking us for money. Not an unusual occurrence for a big city, until he started making jokes about Michael Jackson in effort to gain our trust and approbation (GRE word!).
While I won’t repeat the jokes here (because ewww), you can imagine that the jokes were about Michael Jackson’s fondness for young boys.
What is surprising and interesting is that this homeless man knows that anyone he comes across will both understand and be receptive to Michael Jackson jokes. He knows that jokes about Martha Stewart, Britney Spears, Tom Cruise, Paris Hilton, Hilary/Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush will not get the same universal acceptance.
People, Michael Jackson has gone from being lauded by the media and public as the King of Pop, to being ridiculed by the homeless. That fact would be sad, if it wasn’t so damn funny.
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Yea I used to own the "Dangerous" TAPE when I was a kid. I would listen to it on my walkman, and run around doing crotch gyrations to my favorite tune- "black or white." Yea you all know the tune.... you can be my baby it don't mattah if you're black or whiiitttee! duh ne duh de, dah dah dah dah....woo hoo!
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