However, it seems Bungu flushed his journalistic research skills down the drain and instead chose to sail on the wings of yellow journalism. Or is Bungu exemplifying the traits of an angry black man by insinuating that Michael Jackson refused to be black! To suggest that Michael Jackson didn't fight a black consciousness war like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King is not only to collapse these great men into one entity but it is to miss that Jesse and King belong to a different generation and political priorities of which Michael Jackson is an inheritor of even though he would go on to fight musical segregation. Bungu points that Michael Jackson "should have extracted some lessons of being Black and successful from these legendary icons" but Bungu overlooks that Jackson's icons and inspirations were fully fledged black men, Little Richard and James Brown. Jackson's political commitment was of a different genre. Music magazines like the Rolling Stone and music journalists have said that he opened the door for black male artist to be played on MTV.
In one of the highest-rated Oprah Winfrey shows in the history of American television, Oprah, the evergreat interviewer, interrogates Jackson on changing the colour of his skin.
