The influence of Michael Jackson on culture is undeniable. Besides music, dance and the art of music video this man single-handedly changed our vision of charity and involvement in public life. He is a musician who gave the entire proceeds of his tours to charity and spoke out in music and speeches against racism, poverty, injustice, inequality and environmental problems. Michael Jackson was the first celebrity to denounce injustice against AIDS and HIV victims, inviting Magic Johnson to star in his video. He has been an outspoken critic of racism and chauvinism, promoting cultural equality in his songs and videos. He has changed the fabric of American television, radio and music and tributes of that can be found on Michael Jackson Tribute around the world.
Michael Jackson has always cared for the environment creating the most outspoken video against the cruelty of war, global pollution and industrialization, the Earth Song, for which he had won numerous awards form environmental organizations. Jackson sponsored and opened numerous hospitals for children around the world. In his video They Don’t Really Care About Us he riveted attention to the problem of Brazilian slums where drug abuse, poverty and violence prevailed. Today the town where the video was filmed is free from drug gangs, because people believed in themselves after somebody else did. It is amazing how one person can change so much about this world.