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Living With Michael Jackson

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • 4 hours ago
  • 1 min read

One of the things that I would defend is that sleepovers are common for Māori people. In the whānau and the marae, it's very common for people to sleep in the same room. One could argue that Neverland was much like a marae. The second point is that the interviewer clearly took offence to Michael's androgyny. In the opening part, he looks like a rock star. After that, he's an androgynous fairy. It's not so much the idea of kids in people's lives, but kids in his life... he's a freak! - Jane, my guitar teacher, taught Michael for years. She never thought he was a creep. She went to the ranch; he was a crossdresser. If it was a woman with children in their bed, what would you say? - As for his skin colour: my skin hates the sun as well. It peels and flakes. If he literally avoided sunlight, then of course his skin pigment would lighten. When I'm tanned, I look Māori or Pasifika by most metrics.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
4 hours ago

While it's probably less severe, vitiligo is common in Māori with European ancestry. Which is virtually all btw. Only a very select few are 100% Māori. Lots of people gain or lose a shade of pigment across their lives.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
4 hours ago
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For the shits who aren't getting it: no, you don't have access to the whakapapa books. Unlike Native Americans, only the tribe gets to say. Henry Riddell is in their book. Signs that I'm who I say I am: the blond tinge in my hair = puhihuia (yes). That's the plume of Ngāti Hikairo. The way I tanned last year proved the point. The red sunburn = tūrehu.

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