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Michael Jackson and the American imagination

By Farai Chideya

9:47 AM on 06/26/2009

(AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File) Just months after our President proved that you can be born black in America and achieve the highest heights, the life of Michael Jackson offers a very different narrative: he is someone whose cultural legacy shaped his success, but did not provide a path to inner...