Brittany Luce
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7,920 appearances
259 recordings
13 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Brittany Luce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald is a writer and culture critic.
She's written several pieces on Michael Jackson over the years, including for The Washington Post.
and certainly because of our specific history and experiences as Americans.
And having part of the experience of being Black and growing up in America being that you are gaslighted about the experiences of Black people in America and their history.
I think it makes it very understandable to have a reaction that when a high-profile Black celebrity, like someone that just holds
There's a long, painful history of Black men being falsely accused of sex crimes.
And as Soraya points out, that history has acted as a very powerful shield against holding high-profile Black men accountable when they're accused of similar things today.
There's another shield Jackson was able to wield that proved to be equally powerful for some time, his childlike wonder.
The narrative around his father Joe's physical and mental abuse and Michael's quote-unquote stolen childhood was something he spoke of often.
And it functioned as this explanation for why he seemed to prefer the company of children over adults his own age.
After the 1993 lawsuit, he channeled that defense into his art to a sometimes strange effect.
There was the saccharine, creepy, have you seen my childhood?
And then there's the 40-ish minute long short film for the single Ghosts.
It uses this age-old horror trope to directly address the allegations.
And Stephen King wrote the screenplay.
Stan Winston directed.
He's the legendary visual effects artist behind movies like The Terminator.
Now, Jackson plays the maestro, this eccentric man living in a haunted mansion.
He's beloved by the neighborhood kids, but has been deemed a freak by the mayor, this abrasive old white man, who's also played by Jackson in prosthetics.
The mayor very obviously resembles Tom Sneddon.
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