Carol, you aren’t the only one who thinks those thoughts.
To anyone other than blacks under 40, Hollywood types and those who were 12 year old girls when he peaked, Jacko is nothing but a bleached out pervert.
People who go on and on about his music breaking the race barrier must have never heard of Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry, The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Coasters, The Drifters, Ben E. King, Clyde McPhatter, Eartha Kitt, Laverene Baker, Barbara Lynn, Barbara Mason, Baby Washington, Barbara George, Barbara Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Dee Dee Sharp, Darlene Love, Chubby Checker, Hank Ballard, The Shirelles, James Brown, The Angels, The Crystals, and about 10,000,000 other black hitmakers and Doo Wop groups.