Posted on 07/09/2009 2:35:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Like Elvis Presley before him, the demise of Michael Jackson has engaged the entire world, and the parallels are spooky. Both Presley and Jackson lived isolated, somewhat bizarre lives, eventually destroying themselves with drugs administered by doctors on their payrolls. This was a proven fact in Presley's case; there is strong evidence in Jackson's.
But while Presley was mourned primarily as a great entertainer, Jackson is being sold by his supporters as much more. In fact, if you listen to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the troubled singer was the second coming of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At Jackson's memorial service earlier this week, Sharpton put forth that Jackson brought blacks and whites together, teaching us all how to love.
Wow, who knew?
A Pew Research poll shows that African-Americans are far more interested in the Jackson story than are white Americans, and some speakers at the memorial referred to Jackson as a black icon. But how can this be? Jackson bleached his skin to make it lighter and presumably paid white men to donate sperm for his three in-vitro children, at least two of whom were carried to term by a white woman.
Does that sound like a black icon to you? What is really going on here?
My colleague Bernard Goldberg says this is an example of a minority group sticking together, rallying around one of their own. It is true that many African-Americans celebrated the acquittal of O.J. Simpson of murder, as well as a jury finding Jackson not guilty on child molestation charges. I guess it's natural to root for the home team, especially when history has been brutally unkind. Black Americans well understand the injustice of the past.
But the truth is that Jackson's contribution lies in entertainment and little else. He is not a role model. His admitted conduct with children is simply unacceptable for any adult. His use of cosmetic surgery is troubling to say the least. And the enormous amount of money he spent on prescription drugs speaks for itself.
Of course, the corrupt media are driving the deification of Jackson. Rather than challenge the St. Paul-like portrayal, the media are cynically exploiting it to the fullest.
Remember, these are the same people who covered the molestation trial gavel to gavel. When Jackson was found not guilty, did the press label him a hero? They certainly did not. But now that he's dead (very possibly from an accidental drug overdose), Jackson has become a hero. How does that happen? What kind of media con is this?
I'd like to put that question to every single national anchorperson who sat there doing play-by-play at the memorial service, but I do not believe I'd get a cogent answer.
I have no desire to intrude on anyone grieving for Jackson, especially the people who truly loved him. But the entire planet is watching this play out, and there is such a thing as truth in this world.
We should be telling it.
Dude was more mushroom like. Where are the “Michael” sightings? Elvis is dead.
The article said — This was a proven fact in Presley’s case; there is strong evidence in Jackson’s.
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Ummmm.., it would appear to be a proven fact in Jackson’s case (about 10 to 1) over Presley’s case... LOL...
White Americans well understand the injustice of the past.
Americans well understand the injustice of the past.
Decent and caring human beings well understand the injuctices of the past and present.
White Americans well understand the injustice of the PRESENT!
The day after MJ died, a reporter quoted Lisa Marie Presley as saying that when she and MJ were married, he (MJ) stated that he was afraid he would die like Elvis.
Well, it was (presumedly) a drug overdose, he just didn’t go on the toilet.
You said — Well, it was (presumedly) a drug overdose, he just didn’t go on the toilet.
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After looking at that drug list of his, there was no “presumedly” about it... LOL...
...and yet is considered a black icon...
He may have been born a black boy, but he died a white woman.
I have tried to imagine the reaction if a very successful white male entertainer were to find a way to turn his skin dark, have plastic surgery to enlarge his lips, flatten his nose etc. so as to look like a black man, show no interest in white women, marry a black woman who left him as Lisa Marie did, have children with another black woman and show off children who were obviously ninety nine percent black and claim that he fathered them. And so on and so on, you get my drift. He certainly wouldn’t be worshiped by white people.
Michael Jackson obviously wanted to be white, to think otherwise is to stretch the truth beyond recognition. Why is he an “icon of the black people”?
The “professional” African-Americans are a sad joke protected as they are by a soft tyranny of Political Correctness. Which by the day means less and less to people outside of the cult that has formed around being A-A, that even blinders Bill acknowledges by lack of white interest in this joke. Of course no one bothered to ask the dynamic model minority the rising superstars of ethnic politics the Hispanics what they thought of MJ nor did they ask Asian Americans what they think of all this nonsense. But white self haters always flumox themselves over such stupidity as Sharpton-Jackson and Jacko.
Jackson did everything he could to get rid of his blackness:
from plastic surgery to changing the color of his skin.
How is this setting an example for other blacks?
“Michael Jackson obviously wanted to be white...”
Have any of you ever heard of vitiligo?
Only people like you would accuse this little girl of wanting the same...
scroll down...
http://effectivevitiligotreatment.blogspot.com/2008/05/vitiligo-skin-disease.html
Have any of you ever heard of vitiligo?
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Yes, I have and I don’t believe MJ turned white because of it but set that aside and give him the benefit of the doubt. Let’s say he told the truth about that. Did that cause him to show interest only in white women? Did that cause him to have plastic surgery? Did that cause him to present obviously white children to the world and claim he fathered them when he obviously did not? MJ wanted to be white, if you don’t want to see that then no one can force you to see it but it is as obvious as the sunrise.
If he had been proud to be black (and I don’t know why he wouldn’t be) then he could have married a black woman rather than a white woman, he could have adopted black children rather than falsely claiming to have miraculously fathered white children. He could have left his facial features unaltered, he was a fine looking young man before he had all the plastic surgery that turned him into a freak that looked like something from a horror movie.
Refusing to see the obvious truth will not change it. Sorry.
Based on all his lunacy, I do not believe he had vitilligo. With his millions and thirst for whiteness, he found a way to bleach his skin. Even if he had the disease, however, all his other asinine antics lead but to one logical conclusion. Michael Jackson yearned to be white.
Does that explain his many plastic surgeries on his face
to look “white”?
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