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He will not swiftly be forgiven for having turned so many tables, for he damn sure grabbed the brass ring, and the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo has nothing on Michael.?And he goes on to say, ?Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated?in the main, abominably?because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Baldwin, writing in an essay in 1985 in his essay Here Be Dragons, where he says : ?The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at all. 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