He also remembers his friend Michael Jackson as someone who “never complained,” despite the cruel hand he had been dealt with his skin disease, vitiligo. We talked about that somewhat because I was curious after having read Nordahl’s USA Today interview where he mentioned that Michael’s vitiligo was already in a very advanced state when he first met him-in 1988! 他还说到麦可是个永远都不会抱怨的人 虽然他得了白斑症 他说他的症状在1988年就 很严重了 At that time, in 1988, he described Michael as someone whose face was already splotched like a cow, and that the effects of the disease were plainly visible on his body. I was very interested to know more about this, because to the world, Michael Jackson in 1988 still looked relatively “normal.” Yes, we could tell he was getting lighter. But it was not yet blatantly obvious that something drastic was going on. 在1988年麦可的脸就已经斑驳像乳牛一样 “So you’re saying, as early as 1988, he was already splotched over a large percentage of his body, including his face?” “Oh yes. Yes. When I met him, it was already all the way down the right side of his neck. And on his right hand, as far as I could see, going all the way up his arm.” But he did note it was hard to know how much further the disease had progressed up his arm, “since he always wore those long-sleeved, corduroy shirts.” Those, of course, were the well known (mostly red; occasionally blue) long-sleeved shirts that he began wearing in the late 80′ s and early 90′s. The shirts came in handy for concealing his condition. 他说当他见到MJ时 MJ右半边的脸和脖子到手能看见的地方都是 当然他穿长袖来遮他 的手臂 也就是他常常穿的那件红色或蓝色衬衫 “Of course, as he developed more blotches, he had to go with lighter and lighter makeup to cover it.” 他因为有越来越多的淡斑 所以他只能用比较浅的妆来遮盖 We discussed how vitiligo completely robs the skin of pigment. I mentioned how even Oprah Winfrey had said that looking at Michael’s skin was “like looking at someone who was transluscent; you could see all the way through to the blue veins.” 在欧普拉的节目中 欧普拉说麦可的皮肤整个透明 好像可以看到血管一样 He said that Oprah’s assessment was true. That’s what it was like. 他表示欧普拉的说法是正确的 就像那样 It was never a case of Michael wanting to be white. “White people have pigment,” he said, which is something I have also said on many occasions when I still run across those who think Michael bleached his skin. “Look at your skin, and look at mine. But now…look at that piece of paper there.” He pointed to the sheet of typing paper I was jotting my notes on. “That sheet of paper right there…imagine someone whose skin is as white as that paper.” 麦可从没想要变白人 白人也有色素 像你我这样 当我碰到说麦可想漂白皮肤的人时 我就会说 看看你 看看我 再看看一张纸 想像有人的皮肤能白的像纸一样 “Michael always considered himself very ugly,” he said. 他也说到 麦可总觉得自己很丑 I said I found it so hard to believe why. “He was beautiful,” I said. 有人表示:他很美丽 “But he never saw it that way. He thought he was extremely ugly. He was always wanting to look like what he called “normal people.” 大卫说: 但他不这麽看待 他总是觉得他非常丑 他总是想要看起来更像所谓的"正常人" You would think that a disease like vitiligo would have completely crushed such a fragile self-esteem. But it didn’t. “I never once heard him complain. He never said, ‘Why me?’ 但大卫说我从没听过他抱怨 他从没说 为什麽是我 For twenty years, David saw his friend fight the ravages of this disease, along with all of the misunderstanding and ridicule that came with it. “He always knew who he was, he knew he was black.” 20多年来大卫看着他的朋友和这个疾病还要那些误解和随之而来的嘲弄缠斗 麦可一直知道他是甚麽样的人 他知道他是黑人 Apparently, it was the rest of the world that needed reminding of that fact. Not Michael. 事实上不是麦可 而是这个世界上的其他人需要被提醒这个事实 乱七八糟 大略翻一下 大家加减看了 -- In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. In a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. ~~~~By Michael Jackson --

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