Lanre Bakare
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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from Gary, Indiana, this kind of place in the, basically the middle of nowhere, very industrial.
And Joe Jackson's this kind of like centrifugal force in the middle of the family, which drives his children to become these, these child stars.
He basically wills them into the Motown office with Diana Ross.
They do an audition and they're successful and their career takes off.
They go into this incredible machine and off they go.
You know, Michael Jackson doesn't have a childhood.
We know that there's accusations of him being sexually assaulted by people within the music industry.
There's a few allegations of that flying around.
Well, yeah, he would whip them.
I was reading a thing the other day, Michael Jackson saying he would like apply oil to them so that he could get more kind of purchase on this kind of physical assault that he was putting his children through.
So like that, I think that is built into the way that people think about Jackson and in some ways kind of move those kind of really dark allegations out of the way and say, well, actually, there's an explanation for this.
The other thing as well is he was like this kind of Peter Pan style character.
So that somehow explained the fact that he wanted to hang out with children.
Like he hadn't had a childhood.
So therefore it kind of makes sense that he wanted to hang out with these kids.
Even though when you think about it again, it's like, why was this full grown man in his mid thirties hanging out with, you know, 10 year olds sleeping in the same bed as them?
You know, it never, it never smelt right.
But with, with Jackson, because of the biography, I think a lot of people think,
justified it in their own heads and rationalized it and said, well, it kind of makes sense, so we'll kind of allow it.
So I think there's a long history of black cultural critics defending not just Michael Jackson, but many black figures who are accused of heinous crimes.
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