Some other famous people who were nicknamed J.acko in the media, according to Wikipedia:
Nickname
J.acko Barry (born 1975), Irish darts player (Full name: Jason Barry)
J.acko Gill (born 1994), New Zealand shot putter (Full name: Jackson Gill)
J.acko Heaslip (1899–1966), Irish cricketer (Full name: John Ganley Heaslip)
Mark "J.acko" Jackson (born 1959), Australian rules footballer (Full name: Mark Alexander Jackson)
Hidalgo Moya (1920-1994), American architect (sometimes known as J.acko Moya)
J.acko Page (born 1959), British Army general (Full name: Johnathan David Page)
Michael's listed down the page, but it references the full W.acko J.acko nickname. And heres some other people with Jackson in their name, who are either referred to as J.acko one way or another:
Some more:
Fallen soldier with last name Jackson, called "J.acko" by media
Man called Jack gets his namename "J.acko" tattooed on himself
Jackson Strong, often referred to as J.acko in the post
Josh Jackson, referred to as "J.acko" by his mate
Johnnie Jackson, referred to as "J.acko" by his mate
David Jackson, nicknamed "J.acko"
Big Brother star Jackson Blyte, referred to as "J.acko"
Big Brother star BB Jackson (idk if different from the one I just posted), referred to as "J.acko"
League player Peter Jackson repeatedly called "J.acko"
AFL player Jackson Trengrove referred to as "J.acko"
Irish rugby player Paddy Jackson referred to as "J.acko" by mates
Ruaridh Jackson reffered to as "J.acko"
Pro-Skateboarder(?) Jackson Shapiera's referred to as "J.acko"
Sports player Bob Jackson, referred to as "J.acko"
Glen Jackson referred to as "J.acko" by mates
This is from about 15ish minutes of looking through Google News. Some newspapers call them Jackson more than J.acko, others vice versa. Many times their mates will refer to them as J.acko too. My point is, it is not completely uncommon to see people with the name Jackson to be called J.acko by mates or the media. Hence likely why many people who call him "J.acko" (by itself) may not see much of a problem with it. Once again, I really dislike people calling him by that nickname, just trying to explain how non-MJ fans unaware of Michael's dislike for the name might see it.
Oh and just like not every McCartney in the media is referred to as "Macca" (even if I'm sure a good number are), we're not always going to see every Jackson called "J.acko".
redfrog;4159431 said:
Remember MJ was known in the UK before 1985. They did not call him *****. Neither did they call any of his brothers or his father *****.
In all honesty, I think a very good part of it came from the fact that the common term "W.acko" happened to rhyme with "J.acko". The reason why it started around that time was because that was when in their eyes, Michael started doing weird things. Jermaine, Janet, Joseph etc on the other hand didn't do any of those unusual activities and given J.acko became synonymous with Michael, to avoid confusion, the media likely kept it solely attached to Michael.
I definitely believe that those who started the nickname were aware of the racial connotations, but once it's use grew out of control... most people saying definitely would honestly not recognise any racial connotations in it. For example, I have seen a number of black people call Michael by that term on Facebook, for example.
redfrog;4159431 said:
It didn't take a genius in the UK to know about this history.
Genius no, but a fighting monkey from 200 years ago would definitely
not be public knowledge, even to those who have taken classes on UK history. Especially when their names are spelt differently.
redfrog;4159431 said:
Reducing black names was common tactic by racist whites to signal that the black man was less than the white man.
Slaves got their names from their owner and they never had two names just one.
Reducing a black man's name from Jackson to ***** is racist to the core!
It's the same when the racist white press called Jack Johnson Jackie.
It's the same as calling black man boys.
I agree with most of the quoted part except you lost me a bit on the bolded part. I know slave owners gave their slaves usually just one name, but was it really common behaviour for the racist slave owners to take their actual name, shorten it and give that as their new name, as you are suggesting?
In all honesty, the bolded part I think you push it and it hurts the credibility of your argument (not that I disagree with the argument in general about how the nickname has racist backgrounds). If reducing a black man's name is racist to the core, then theoretically, wouldn't most people on here (including myself) be racist for shortening Michael to Mike and calling him that?