Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on black and white song by michael jackson.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on black and white song by michael jackson. In the video of Black and White Michael theme of stopping racism is clearly shown. Racism was the main problem people faced during the time Michael decided to sing about it. The video is an inspiration to people and an influence to encourage them to stop racism. In the lyrics of the song, Jackson explains that it does not matter if you are black or white as long as you want to be his friend you will be. He went to an extent of making the world aware. that he does not support Ku Klux Klan and that he was not afraid of him. This is on the line he says, “If you want to be my brother, it does not matter if you are black or white (Luzajic, 98). According to Michael Jackson, all races are the same and they determine nothing.

The video of the song begins with an 11-year-old boy who decides to play loud music rather than sleep at night. He angers his father who later storms out. The loud music destroys the homestead and sends his father halfway in the world. The boys’ father later crashes in Africa. This is where Jackson’s song begins while a different culture surrounds him. There is the scene of African dancers who begins their moves with the West Africa dances (Macaulay, 132). The dancers are later followed by the traditional Thai dancers, plain Native Americans and an Indian woman. Jackson is seen to move through fire and he says that he is not scared of a sheet. This means he is not afraid of anybody. The last verse is sung by Jackson on a very large sculpted torch. This is to symbolize the statue of liberty. Different people, at the end of the song, dance as they morph into each other. They are such that the video portrays and that Michael never spoke it. This is like when men transform into women and vice versa.

During the video, Michael is seen to break the windows to show that he is determined to destroy all that has brought about the discrimination of the blacks and their rights as individuals.