Poll: Micheal Jackson's Most Culturally Healthy Video - RIP

Hetep and Respect Kym in DC, you make some good points, especially about the guest appearances. I wonder what was the level of their Cultural Literacy of the guests, evidently more then many might think. Do you think Eddie Murphy influenced Mike in this video, or was it the other way around?

Hetep and Respect Sitafa Harden, your points are well taken and it is remarkable that we did not here more about this video in the 24 hr non-stop coverage on MJ in the MSM.

To see Iman sitting there looking like a live spitting image of the archaelogical bust of Nefertiti that we all see in our history books is mindblowing.

MJ really did his home work on this match up. I use three of many pics I extracted from the video in this article. If you watch the video and still frame on some of the Iman close ups, they are most striking and detailed. Even the Shots of the individual people in the street, like the last shot in this series of the lady in the brown and green, is worked out to the last detail.

Compare this to some of the thrown together music video's of today. MJ was certainly a master of his craft.

Hetep and Respect caroaber, thanks for responding to one of my questions good spirit. What does your name mean?

Cultural Health is a difficult subject for many and it is easy for lack of clarity in the discussion to creep in. If the conversational discipline, that you see in most of my column discussions, is maintained we can minimise cultural confusion effects and maximize the Cultural Health benefits from our discussion.

Sorry, I forgot to hit the reply button in my last post, my bad. Thriller is an interesting choice. As you are a new to Cultural Health concepts let me make a brief explanation regarding Cultural Health in the context of how I use it.

Cultural Literacy Minute: Cultural Health = reduced Cultural Poisoning and improved Cultural Literacy.

This article is focused on the last part of that equation.

CLM: Cultural Literacy = knowledge of ones culture back to and including its Classical Civilization (s). In the case of the 2 billion plus Black people of the world this would be the Nile Vally civilizations.

I hope you find these CLM's useful as they are important to the Cultural Health of our children.

Clearly he saw the beauty in our African history as evidenced by his detailed recreation of it in the Remember the Time video and wanted to share it with the world.

This is true and certainly bringing this forward was the primary goal of this article. Having said that, it is also reasonable to suspect that some will raise the Culturally Poisoned aspects of MJ's life. We should learn from all of the behaviors of our ancestors. I will probably do a piece on this subject also as the memorial is now past.

Back to the matter at hand, Thriller was important for all the reasons you site however, is bears no relationship to Classical African Civilization, Kemet. In fact, we do not think of our honored ancestors as dancing around in tattered cloth, these are Western worldview concepts and contrary to Cultural Health in the Central worldview.

I hope when you have a few free micro sec's you will answer the other questions I posed, especially this one.

But to my knowledge, the Somali-born Iman was the only Hamitic person in the whole video.

What is a Hamitic person and how is that related to Classical African Civilization proper?

Hetep and Respect coroaber, thank you for taking the time to give a detailed response regarding the relevance of Hamitic. It is most important, instructive and revealing. Time is not on my side today but I hope to have some free microseconds to share some information regarding Hamitic with you later this evening.

H&R caroaber, sorry for the delayed response. However, if the sun is up, as a person of the sun, I am in it. We do not get that much sun here in the Eastern USA, as in the mother land. So we must re-energize our melanin when we can.:-)

First, you should understand that the people who today occupy modern day Egypt bare no more resemblance to the native people of the land of Kmt, then do the majority of Americans today resemble Native Americans.

The Hamitic people are the dominant group in both Egypt and the Horn of Africa.

The word and concept of "Hamitic" people is a European concept. The Classical Africans called themselves Kamu. from kmt (the land of the Blacks). I wrote a book The What Makes You Black, Blook. that goes into the origin of the Word (s) that the Classical Africans used to describe themselves and the first ethnographic studies in recorded history that describe traditional Africans including the Kamau as distinguished from Asians and Caucasians.

Akin to Semites in language,

Semites or multi-ethnics ("simi-ethnic") are a biological group like Arabs. The languages like Hebrew are based on Canaanite language (African). I look to African language experts like Dr. Diop on these matters.

they are distinct from what are called the Negroid peoples of Africa.

Negroid is a term invented by racist to perpetrate racism. The "N" word in all its forms is poisonous. The more culturally healthy terminology is Africoid. The three major ethnic groups on the planet are Africoid, Asioid and Caucasoid.

Cultural Literacy Minute: Words are both the symptom of Cultural Poisoning and the means of transmitting the dis-ease.

Where did you learn the word "Negroid"? Did a Black person teach you this?

(Anwar Sadat was said to be angered that he was portrayed by Louis Gossett, Jr., a Black American, in a TV docudrama.)

This, if true, demonstrated a symptom of his cultural poisoning. There are many Black Arabs that suffer from thinking themselves "Arab" and not Black. Like the Europeans the Arabs induced their own forms of Cultural Poisoning on African people as they invaded and occupied parts of the continent.

I would submit that Magic Johnson and the other featured performers in the "Remember" video do not look like their ancestry is from Egypt or the Horn.

All the African scholars I know of from Dr. Diop to Dr. Jeffries and Dr. Vega would disagree with this statement. More importantly the Classical Africans themselves disagree with you. I recommend to you Dr. Van Sertemers book Egypt Revisited. A Great photo archaeologist partnered with him in this effort.

They look like Americans of West African backgrounds.

West Africans came from East Africa, see Dr. Diop. All Africans come from the mountains of the moon and traditionally produce substantial amounts of melanin.MJ being the minority exception in the case of the video.

Black Americans and Africans are often worlds apart.

This is true, if you are talking about psychological Blackness. However, with respect to biological Blackness there are some 2 billion of us Black people worldwide. We all have a Claim on Classical African Civilization, kemet, just as the relatively few Europeans in the world have a claim of Classical European Civilization , Greece.

My tag combines both my first and last names. (I am Carolyn.)

Nice to meet you Carolyn and to know that your handle has a meaning. The Internet in many ways has reactivated African Ancestral memory. The handle conventions in Cyberspace are not unlike the more complex metu neter (Hieroglyphic) concepts used as writing and paper was brought into recorded history.

What does your name Carolyn mean? Do you have and African name?

Tnx again for sharing.