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** With \\\"Black Or White\\\", there were people who interpreted the line \\\"I\\\'m not going to spend/My life being a color\\\" as Michael saying he didn\\\'t want to be black -- it didn\\\'t help that when the song arrived in 1991, he was \\\'\\\'substantially\\\'\\\' paler than he was ten years prior and he had not yet revealed that this was (at least partially) due to vitiligo. The lines meant that he wouldn\\\'t spend his life being seen as his race, i.e. a stereotype, rather than a person.
** \\\"They Don\\\'t Care About Us\\\" was interpreted as anti-Semitic due to its use of anti-Semitic slurs: \\\"Jew me, sue me/Everybody do me/Kick me, kike me/Don\\\'t you black or white me\\\". The song was written as a protest against injustice and prejudice in general, but the vague lyrics proved \\\'\\\'extremely\\\'\\\' easy to misinterpret, so besides issuing a formal apology, he re-recorded it for later pressings of the album and the single release.
That seems more misinterpretation in general, rather than fandom or hatedom attributable to the misinterpretation.
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[[quote]]* MichaelJackson had problems with this:
** With \\\"Black Or White\\\", there were people who interpreted the line \\\"I\\\'m not going to spend/My life being a color\\\" as Michael saying he didn\\\'t want to be black -- it didn\\\'t help that when the song arrived in 1991, he was \\\'\\\'substantially\\\'\\\' paler than he was ten years prior and he had not yet revealed that this was (at least partially) due to vitiligo. The lines meant that he wouldn\\\'t spend his life being seen as his race, i.e. a stereotype, rather than a person.
** \\\"They Don\\\'t Care About Us\\\" was interpreted as anti-Semitic due to its use of anti-Semitic slurs: \\\"Jew me, sue me/Everybody do me/Kick me, kike me/Don\\\'t you black or white me\\\". The song was written as a protest against injustice and prejudice in general, but the vague lyrics proved \\\'\\\'extremely\\\'\\\' easy to misinterpret, so besides issuing a formal apology, he re-recorded it for later pressings of the album and the single release.[[/quote]]
That seems more misinterpretation in general, rather than fandom or hatedom attributable to the misinterpretation.
** With \\\"Black Or White\\\", there were people who interpreted the line \\\"I\\\'m not going to spend/My life being a color\\\" as Michael saying he didn\\\'t want to be black -- it didn\\\'t help that when the song arrived in 1991, he was \\\'\\\'substantially\\\'\\\' paler than he was ten years prior and he had not yet revealed that this was (at least partially) due to vitiligo. The lines meant that he wouldn\\\'t spend his life being seen as his race, i.e. a stereotype, rather than a person.
** \\\"They Don\\\'t Care About Us\\\" was interpreted as anti-Semitic due to its use of anti-Semitic slurs: \\\"Jew me, sue me/Everybody do me/Kick me, kike me/Don\\\'t you black or white me\\\". The song was written as a protest against injustice and prejudice in general, but the vague lyrics proved \\\'\\\'extremely\\\'\\\' easy to misinterpret, so besides issuing a formal apology, he re-recorded it for later pressings of the album and the single release.[[/quote]]
That seems more misinterpretation in general, rather than fandom or hatedom attributable to the misinterpretation.
