Cornel West: "Saya pikir hal penting untuk dipahami pertama dan teruta...

"Saya pikir hal penting untuk dipahami pertama dan terutama tentang Michael Jackson adalah bahwa ia adalah lambang internasional dorongan spiritual blues Amerika Afrika yang kembali melalui perbudakan - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, hingga saat ini, melalui Louis Armstrong, melalui Ma Rainey, melalui Bessie Smith, hingga John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, dan Nina Simone."

--- Cornel West

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I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.