{"id":154,"date":"2002-07-15T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/black-like-mike\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:21:13","slug":"black-like-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/black-like-mike\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK LIKE MIKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>TRUE<\/em><\/strong>: Shocking onlookers with his candor, singer Michael Jackson appeared at Rev. Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network and lambasted the press and the music industry for what he termed a decades-long conspiracy to denigrate black artists and co-opt\u00a0 their music and dance forms.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1455990\/20020709\/story.jhtml\">MTV.COM<\/a>, Jackson railed &#8220;Once I started breaking sales records, I broke Elvis Presley&#8217;s record, I broke the Beatles&#8217; record \u2014 once I started doing that, overnight, they called me a freak, a homosexual, a child molester. They said I bleached my skin. They did everything they could to turn the public against me. It&#8217;s a conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson concluded, &#8220;I know my race. I look in the mirror, and I know that I&#8217;m black.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SEMITRUE<\/em><\/strong>: Immediately afterward, the Rev. Al Sharpton grabbed the microphone and added. &#8220;I look in that same mirror every day. And I know that I&#8217;m thin, I have great hair, and doggone it, people like me!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUE: Shocking onlookers with his candor, singer Michael Jackson appeared at Rev. Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network and lambasted the press and the music industry for what he termed a decades-long conspiracy to denigrate black artists and co-opt\u00a0 their music and dance forms. According to MTV.COM, Jackson railed &#8220;Once I started breaking sales records, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truesemitrue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}