Jacko Turns Personal Beef Into Potentially Explosive Ethnic Issue

Lloyd Williams of The Black World Today opined on the Michael Jackson comments made against Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola weeks ago. Williams called Jacko’s charges of racism by Mottola “a particularly nutty suggestion when it’s the lighter party who’s claiming to be black.” Williams added, “Nobody’s lily-white here. Sony is a Japanese company. Mariah Carey is half-black and half-white. Michael has a couple of bi-racial kids. Tommy Mottola is darker than Jackson, whose lifelong hobby was turning himself white. Talk about pathology. So, I’m not gullible enough to fall for the incendiary racial angle, even though the music industry has an ugly legacy of exploiting African-American musicians. Go ask Little Richard about that, not wacko Jacko.”