Black & Right is an opinion site, and not just mine. The opinions of readers are just as integral a part of the success of this site as are any expressed by myself. With that, I don’t want people to think they can’t bash Michael Jackson here if they are so inclined. I choose not to.
My reason to push back has nothing to do with musical adoration or cult of personality. Michael Jackson was weird, and as far as I know (with my limited knowledge of the law), weird is not illegal. Michael Jackson came from a fucked up family environment and if any of you could have come out of that totally sane, props. Michael Jackson didn’t swindle billions of dollars from the unsuspecting or pass laws that confiscated hard-earned money from the public. Believe it or not, there was a time when most of us justifiably accepted Michael Jackson as The King of Pop.
It’s being said that Michael Jackson was a recluse. Looking at all the leeches that’ve crawled out of the woodwork to latch onto his assets and children, even charging $25 to attend his memorial, can you blame the man for trying to stay clear of motivated adults and choosing to hang with children who didn’t want anything from him aside from his company?
And again, Michael Jackson was found not guilty of pedophilia. Those who accused him, took the money and ran. If any celebrity did that to my kids, it wouldn’t be about money, unless that was initial motivation. It would be about revenge, justice, the ruining of the career that allowed him to do it, and making sure he’d never be able to do that to anyone else’s kid.
While Quincy Jones may have seen it all before (and had seen what it had done to brilliant careers), why didn’t he do something? I would’ve.
Let me take that back. Quincy Jones DID do something: he cashed his checks.
What disgusts me by all those who once made Jackson the brunt of jokes for years (and are now seeking to profit off him), is that I’ve never seen so many perfect people before in my life. We all know what they say about people who live in glass houses, and in Hollywood, those houses are paper thin. What is Peggy Lipton going to say about Quincy Jones when he dies? How many extra freelancers is TMZ going to have to lay off once the Jackson story dies down? In the meantime, so many are going to latch on and try to take as much of Michael’s hard-earned money as they can.
Are you alright with that? Obviously there’s nothing that can be done about it, but if I can call attention to the scum suckers who were treated very well by Michael Jackson, and now choose to bare their souls, or those who he distanced himself from and now want theirs, that I will do.
And until Michael Jackson is finally laid to rest, I will continue to give this unfortunate man the respect he deserves.
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Michael is lucky just to have made it out of Gary, Indiana.
I’m with you guys: let the guy rest.
Enough has been written about Michael Jackson’s bad habits. He has almost any that can be imagined, all in one package, which endears him to the Hollywood Left.
But as a practicing anesthesiologist, I am appalled that ANYONE would use the anesthetic drug propofol to help Jackson sleep. This is a powerful drug that is not sold in ordinary pharmacies; someone in the medical business had to help him steal this stuff.
In addition, the horse doctor who wrote for massive doses of prescription drugs is also to be condemned.
As Medical Doctors, our first duty is to “do no harm”. Jackson likely died of an overdose of prescription drugs – predictable and to be condemned.
well said, Bob. definitely right about the household and being just plain “weird” being LEGAL & all. For my money though, I’ll always remember him for his songs, videos, and KILLER performances
Personal rights and liberties applied to Michael Jackson too. He could have chosen to be green, for all I care it’d have been his prerogative. As Bob says, he never swindled or ripped off anyone and he certain did not call a brother ‘NIGGA’. We love and RESPECT Michael Jackson back here in Uganda.
Bob, I totally agree with what you say. I’ve heard that Michael Jackson, at the tender age of 5 years old, was performing in Nightclubs where things were going on that no 5-year old should ever see.
His life was not his own. He was robbed of his childhood. We know of child actors who have been the same route and were affected by the lack of a childhood.
I will not degrade him in any way. Though not a big fan of his music (my musical tastes are different) I know that he was very talented. Thriller was the only video of his I ever saw but I thought it was well done.
My thoughts are for this man to finally rest in peace. And perhaps this was the only way for him to get peace.
Thank you.
I certainly can’t disagree with what you’ve said here.
But, what I was talking about is this sort of reaction:
Headline: Sen. Gillibrand aide reprimanded for mocking Michael Jackson’s skin color
Bob Parks: “Stand by for another Democrat-racial-insensitivity pass“
Man in the mirror would have to be his greatest song.