For Serious

I know we're in a supposedly post-racial era, where if someone is describing the only black person in a room, the last thing they would do is describe the person as "the only black person in the room." People act like race doesn't exist, to no one's benefit. But the Michael Jackson's kids thing is beyond stupid. It's all over the papers and the web that he's not the biological father of any of his kids. Really? Are we really surprised that a black man isn't the biological father of white kids with blonde hair and blue eyes? I thought we all knew that the first time we saw the kids. If anyone ever thought he was the biological father, then that person's parents signed the opt-out form for sex-ed. Whether Michael Jackson's skin got lighter from Vitiligo or bleaching we don't know, but I'm pretty sure he didn't change his DNA to Scandanavian. There's no amount of money in the world to afford that. Even Michael Jackson couldn't go to a doctor and say, "I want my balls to hold the semen of a Viking." That's beyond Magic Johnson's HIV disappearing. Last night, on the Subway, I saw a woman reading the article from the NY Post about this, with her mouth wide open. She couldn't believe that Michael Jackson would be involved in such a scandal. From now on, I'm going to assume that people who read the NY Post have a learning disability.