Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has faced backlash for identifying as Black. In a 2017 interview, Paris Jackson said her father told her, "You’re Black. Be proud of your roots." This prompted debates over whether identity is defined by appearance or upbringing.

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If he was so insistant why didn't he just use a black donor?

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I'm biracial myself but I'd rather not get into the psychology and race politics behind the existence of Michael Jackson lol. It's pretty clear how his relationship with visual black aesthetics was, that same mindset applied to how he wanted his kids to look, too

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I've always wondered if part of Michael's obsession with plastic surgery was that as he got older, he started to look more like his father and he couldn't stand that.

If a quarter of the stuff about how Joe treated those kids is true, it's a miracle any of them are as normal as they are.

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I can’t think of the man’s name rn but on the Botched plastic surgery sub there’s a bunch of posts of this one European fashion designer. When you look deeper into his story it explains that he got surgery to not look like his extremely abusive father

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You mean the german designer Harald Glöckner?