Looking at what he's done to his face and other features, it certainly wasn't to enhance his genetic Negroid features, but almost all of it is done to appear white or of European rather than African background. Look then at who he has associated with, almost exclusively all his life. Look at the children he seems attracted to, all of them white. He's been a sick person mentally for years in my opinion with a severe identity problem in accepting himself and his race. I remember the studies they did of black children years ago, showing them pictures of black and white children and then asking them which was pretty and which was ugly and almost all of them chose the black child as the ugly one. Michael Jackson, in spite of, and maybe due to, his early childhood fell victim to that syndrome to a greater degree. No matter what psychological problems he may have encountered growing up however, it doesn't justify the things he's been doing to children. I get the feeling that he has rejected his race, rejected his family, and somehow thru illicit contacts with these white children is trying to share or capture something he felt he missed out on growing up as a child of color. His race and how he perceives himself in relation to that may not have any bearing on this, but looking also at his sister Janet (of Good Times fame) who also has followed his same odd "whiter looking" type of plastic surgeries, it makes me wonder what Michael and Janet actually went through themselves growing up.