Michael Jackson

Today in class we learned that early MTV played no music videos with African Americans, and refused to play Michael Jackson's "The Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller-60 minute home video" despite the fact that it sold 350,000 copies in the first three months. Finally after threats from Columbia Records to ban their white rock groups from performing on MTV, Michael Jackson's video was aired. How did Michael Jackson's collaboration of different genres of music such as R&B and Rock, and MTV's airing of his video's contribute to the integration of races within our culture? What did this do for African American musicians to follow?