No idea, I do know his dad was a verbally abusive prick, but I don\'t know exactly what he said to him. I do know that Michael claims that he is proud to be a black man and that his skin lightening is from a disease called vitiligo. (He first announced this on Oprah.) However, vitiligo causes white patches on the skin, not a gradual lightening of the skin all over the body, so his claim is definitely suspect.