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book. Yellowman probably did more for albinos than any other person I know. He flaunted his "handicap" till girls suffered minor accidents when he appeared. I can remember the first time I saw him perform at the National Arena, I think it was. I knew he was popular, but I had no idea how much! Young gal run up and dung when di big man hit di stage. And he played it to the limit, with his effeminate swagger across the stage, while holding out the mike (now preferably called "michelle") for the crowd to sing along. Place tear dung! In later years, with jawbone removed for added fright factor, the young ladies were still "madding over him". I remember going to Rae Town one Sunday night (HL, yuh eva go dem place deh yet, go tek in a good Jamaica oldies street dance? Half yuh life gone!) with a young lady whom I thought was too good to do the groupie thing. Yeah, right! As soon as King Yellow appeared, that was it for me!
Yellowman made it cool to be...well...yellow! He made it possible for another DJ who called himself Mellow Yellow to have a short career in the business. And it's not that people wanted to extract melanin from their skin to be like Yellowman, but I honestly believe it made us all look on albinos a little differently, more favorably. Hell, look what Yellow did for the world of emoticons!
MJ would have done wonders for people suffering with vitiligo, much more than Yellow could ever have done for albinos. Indeed, it's not far-fetched to believe that people would have sought ways to copy the very shape of the skin blotches he had.
Please, I'm not being mischievous in this post. This is serious business, despite my humourous barbs here and there. You see, I'm finding it difficult to forgive MJ for becoming white. He might sing "It don't matter if you're black or white", and he's right, but it does matter if you change from black to white, or vice versa.
You see, 50 years from now the child abuse allegations will become a minor, minuscule entry on MJ's Wikipedia, and most of us would have begun to really have doubts if any of it were even remotely possible. But 50 years from now, we would still be wondering how a good-looking, afro-ed, flat-nosed 10 year old could morph into a talcum-faced, red-lipped being, with a nose that only he, Latoya and Farrah shared! (The irony!)We'll never get away from that unfortunate deed. And that is sad.
Michael was so huge a star that people would have looked right past his skin condition. The only problem with that is, maybe we would never have had that glove become part of his iconic image.
Yellowman made it cool to be...well...yellow! He made it possible for another DJ who called himself Mellow Yellow to have a short career in the business. And it's not that people wanted to extract melanin from their skin to be like Yellowman, but I honestly believe it made us all look on albinos a little differently, more favorably. Hell, look what Yellow did for the world of emoticons!
MJ would have done wonders for people suffering with vitiligo, much more than Yellow could ever have done for albinos. Indeed, it's not far-fetched to believe that people would have sought ways to copy the very shape of the skin blotches he had.
Please, I'm not being mischievous in this post. This is serious business, despite my humourous barbs here and there. You see, I'm finding it difficult to forgive MJ for becoming white. He might sing "It don't matter if you're black or white", and he's right, but it does matter if you change from black to white, or vice versa.
You see, 50 years from now the child abuse allegations will become a minor, minuscule entry on MJ's Wikipedia, and most of us would have begun to really have doubts if any of it were even remotely possible. But 50 years from now, we would still be wondering how a good-looking, afro-ed, flat-nosed 10 year old could morph into a talcum-faced, red-lipped being, with a nose that only he, Latoya and Farrah shared! (The irony!)We'll never get away from that unfortunate deed. And that is sad.
Michael was so huge a star that people would have looked right past his skin condition. The only problem with that is, maybe we would never have had that glove become part of his iconic image.
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