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Asian America | by Tien  | Jul 8, 2009

While his song wasn’t titled “Black or White or Asian or Latino” (it probably wouldn’t have been as catchy), there’s no doubt that MJ’s music crossed boundaries and it really didn’t matter if you were green, purple, or transparent–his music truly transcended through all races, as evidenced below:

Our own inspiration for this blog puts it quite eloquently:

Rev Sharpton praised Jackson’s message of love, his talent and his work breaking down “the colour curtain” and eradicating barriers. “It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together”.

It isn’t the first time in recent memory that a public figure has recognized America as being more than just “black and white”:

There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.

-Barack Obama

Of course while on the topic of racial integration, we can never forget the forever memorable “I Have a Dream” speech:

I tried to find a quote by a non-black person as eloquent as the above ones were, but such a task proved to be more difficult than a non-Asian doing Linear Algebra or O-Chem homework.

Sorry guys, maybe next time I can come up with my own.

-Tien