When Michael Jackson died, all of a sudden, every public figure and media outlet was acting like the scandals surrounding him had never happened, that they never once thought that he was a child molester or a creepy pervert and that his death was tragic and he had a hard childhood and blah, blah, blah. Almost overnight, he was deified by the same media that spent nearly two decades treating him like a walking punchline.

Granted, the accusations came back about ten years after his death, and the hypocrites at The Simpsons decided to pull the Stark Raving Dad episode off the air and all physical releases after keeping it while the accusations were in full swing when Jackson was alive. But the point still stands. This was another black guy who everyone was mourning over.