What Is Vitiligo?

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5 Responses to “What Is Vitiligo?”

January 5, 2010 at 7:57 pm

martine Vaudon says:

My sister is suffering from vitiligo. This is horrible for her, she loves sun and can’t enjoy it any more. When I look at the white stains appearing on her skin I realize how difficult it must have been for Michael to hide this, especially on a black skin. How could people believe he wanted to become a white man? I hate all of those malicious people who spread out those nasty ideas about him, I hate them, they are responsible for his death, they must pay for that. I do support the actions we are trying to realize together. I thank you all for reading and sharing this site. Michael was the most terrific and beautiful person in the world. His death is unbearable. I miss him dreadfully, this is what I keep on thinking day and night.

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January 6, 2010 at 4:57 am

Kali says:

I suffer from vitiligo. Though It only spread to my legs, I still get made fun of. It angers me the most that people dare to say things such as he disgraces his own race, calling him a freak for “purposely turning himself white”", This truely gets to me. They have absolutely NO clue what its like to have it, they do not know Michael at all. Here was the most loving, gentle, kind, amazing, talented human being on earth, being trashed for something he cannot help. If only this world wasn’t so into appearance and so judgemental, Michael was killed by this cruel world, we just weren’t ready for an angel to set foot on our earth.
RIP. Michael, love and miss you dearly.

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February 3, 2010 at 5:30 am

Suvie says:

When ordinary people who get vitiligo find it so tough emotionally and socially, imagine how tough it must have been for Michael. He was famous across the world and the fact was that even without it he had some complex about his nose and pimples (he had as a teenager) thanks to people around! Hats off to Michael that he still came out strong! He had the nerves of steel I must say! Love u MJ!

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February 4, 2010 at 3:04 am

Anitra totten says:

It saddens me what Michael went through throughout his life. For people to say that he wanted to be other than he was, a black man, angers me! I really hate it when people and the media say that he tried to turn hisself white because he didn’t want to be black, is so untrue! Michael knew who he was, they act like they wanted him to talk about it and scream in every interview he did, that he was black. And if he did that then they would have a problem with that too. He couldn’t win for losing. If Michael would have choose to not apply make-up to his skin to hide the vitiligo and let the world see it develop and get worse and worse; then the media and the people would have dis their research saying why isn’t he covering this up? Why is he showing this? Don’t he know he can use make up to try and even-out the skin? Why don’t he do the depigmitation treat? They would have called him a freak either way. No matter what decision Michael chose it was never good enough for the medialoid! But let’s flip it what about the people that sit out in the sun all day trying to make their skin darker and be other than what they are? No one wants to talk about that! No one cares about that! It has even gotten worse within the years, with tanning booths and spray tans. But as soon as he gets a skin disorder all of a sudden he wants to be white. He had his biggest success as a black artist so why would he changed that to be white? Smh! Michael knew who he was and was proud of his race and…

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March 27, 2010 at 1:57 pm

Jordan says:

For a female fan like myself, it’s hard to go out into the world and say, “I Love Michael Jackson” and expect people to say, “That’s fine.” No, they must say, “Oh, you love a molester? An abuser? A gay? A wanna-be white?” And when you think about that, you must ask “Why?” Why did they, why do they, do this to a man who didn’t do a thing to them? It’s because he’s the biggest star since Elvis Presley. This man, Michael Jackson, got vitiligo, and was accused of ‘denying his race’. Of two things are wrong in that statement. 1. Michael Jackson did NOT deny his race. 2. Black and White are colors. It makes me sad when I think that we, the people of earth, classify each other the way we do. Like animals. ‘This one’s a cheetah, it’s faster than a sloth, so it’s better.’ In no form or fashion is anyone on earth better than the other. Did Michael molest chilren? Of course not. Did he ‘bleach’ himself? He had to. What would the press say if they saw the biggest star since Elvis, ‘half black and half white’? They’d probably make more Michael Jackson jokes, which are extremely sick and cruel already. I have spoken.

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