1.0 link 221682 <![CDATA[Obama Owes a Lot to Michael Jackson -- Where's the Thanks?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lola-adesioye/obama-owes-a-lot-to-micha_b_221682.html Al Sharpton said it best: "Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color. Way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama, Michael did with music what they later did in sports, in politics and in television."

If there is such a thing as 'post-racial', Jackson was probably the first and most visible international post-racial figure that this country has ever produced. He made history uniting not only Americans, but the world through his music, much in...

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