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Michael Jackson's charge of racism in the recording industry is a double-edged sword. Foremost, it has spectacularly backfired on him. He has done something truly remarkable: made a recording company appear sympathetic, aided and abetted by a stumbling coalition that refused to act like a Dutch uncle.

By letting him make ad hominem attacks against Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola, the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's ill-conceived music summit July 9 has allowed the recording industry to duck real issues and enjoy the spectacle.

When your enemy is destroying himself, Napoleon once said, do nothing. Jackson made it difficult for himself to get back his master recordings and dredged up old and new stories that undermine his issues and music issues in general.

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