In a rambling introduction, the 85-year-old King related a conversation he said he once had with the late singer Michael Jackson.*
King said he once told Jackson that, as a black person in America, "'if you're poor, you're a poor Negro. I would use the N-word. But if you're rich, you're a rich Negro. If you are intelligent, intellectual, you're an intellectual Negro. If you're a dancing and sliding and gliding n*****, I mean Negro, you are a dancing and sliding and gliding Negro.'" Read more...