Michael Jackson - 'Black or White'

The video starts in space, the camera falls through the stars, clouds, sky till we see city lights, and we follow the road up to a house where we enter a boy’s bedroom. Inside he is rocking out to loud music. The father gets angry and tells the child to stop listening to it. The boy finds huge amps and blasts the house to bits, causing his father’s chair to fly out of the house landing in the African desert.

A pride of lions is the next thing we see, with aborigines or native Africans creeping up to hunt it. Michael Jackson is of course amongst them. Once the music starts the group begin a choreographed dance. They run off into a different set where M.J is now with some women doing some form of Hindi/Eastern European dance. Again it changes, this time to Native Americans, jumping and dancing on a box/stage, the backdrop falls to reveal those on horseback.

The scene changes to the middle of a busy road with a Hindi/ Indian woman dancing with M.J. Their moves are linked though each with their own style. The weather begins to snow linking it in with the next scene which is in Russia. Once the men have danced around M.J the scene becomes a snow globe which is picked up by two babies; one of which is ‘white the other ‘black’.
The ending of this video is a series of people transforming into each other. It shows that there is a difference of race, culture and style of dancing though we are all the same inside. It doesn’t matter what we look like or as the song says ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9OYMRwN1Q