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Luv4oneanotha

Why We ALL Hate Michael Jackson...

Now I for one am a lil tired of the MJ talk for one but this essay Caught my eye
it is Very Unbiased and will satisfy Skeptics and Loyal Fans alike
Injoy

The Man in the Mirror
by Lorette C. Luzajic
We are a fickle and easily led population. When it comes to mass culture, we're unable to acknowledge quality entertainment. We slot the sultry-voiced passions of talentress Shakira right beside Britney and Christina A. It's "in" among arty intellectuals and academes to lambaste mass market artists, and I'll do it myself if it means making room on the radio airwaves for new talent. But it's hardly fair to dismiss every famous writer, artist or musician who hits the big time. Give credit where it's due.

In the good old days of school, any prof I heard yelping about post-classics writers got questioned. Best-seller writers were always hip targets of academic wrath. But "What writer knows so intimately the human heart, in all its ordinariness, in all its darkness, than Stephen King?" And if the teacher began laughing the puppet-laughter of the More Intellectual Than Thou, I could only ask, "But have you read him?'

Every intelligent person knows that you can't form an impression until you know something of your topic. Otherwise, you are only following what other people think, a worse crime than a secret penchant for Backstreet Boy syrup.

Mass culture built Michael Jackson into the King of Pop, and then it turned its head away when it couldn't handle the crucified monster it had built. I'm sick of hearing "thinking" people Michael-bashing along with the ignorant herds who still call him "faggot" in grade eight. Michael, who tried to tell us in his latest album that he is Invincible isn't even afforded the joy of being invisible. Whether it's the subway, the supermarket, or a poetry reading, I'm still listening to smart people insulting him.

I don't owe Michael anything, and I can't rescue the damaged, over-grown boy from La La land to redeem his public credibility or his broken soul. But truth is important to me, and if people are bent on batting and battering, they're going to need a little substance in their analysis. Maybe the public finds MJ less thrilling than he used to be. The Child Molester with the melting face, still singing crap about rescuing the kiddies. Still can't decide if he's a boy or a girl. Still can't decide if he's black or white. Still namedropping Ma Liz at every benefit dinner. Pathetic.

Or is it? Since when are a person's insecurities good reasons to pick on them? Who cares if Mikey is gay or straight? Could we please stop tormenting this poor, unstable man? Why aren't my private neurotic habits on the daily news?

Michael might be shakier and younger in his head than most men his age, but he's human. And child diddler? How very, very predictable that even the pseudo-intellectuals are blaming the weirdos for child abuse.

I wrote a poem once, lamenting the mentality with which we accused him of hurting children. Lock up your little boys/It's not his idols that are eating him alive/It's the closed doors in your own house/It's the closed minds in your own house/The blinds are down in your house.

It isn't the world freak that hurts your kiddies, Ma. It's your husband, your father, your sister. It's the man in the mirror, and you know that deep inside of you. Uncle Bob, Doc Smith, Teacher Emma. These are the ones with their hands in the cookie jar. Statistics, biographies, psychologists and social workers have proven it.

The allegations on Jackson were the end result of a witch-hunt that began when we were embarrassed for obsessing over a hot black man in tight jeans who showed up later as an alien. Kind of like running into your stud ex- who is now waxed and wearing a dress. What do you do with this big sense of "oops"?

We are stupid to conclude that MJ wouldn't have paid off anyone to settle out of court if he were innocent. Perhaps Jackson made a foolish move…but he believed that it would be best for himself and for the child involved to settle with as little fanfare as possible.

Michael Jackson didn't do it. I don't' know him personally, but it made sense to me to do a little bit of research when I heard that one of my favourite icons was molesting kids. He's innocent.

The maid who took $20 000 to report on the MJ and friends showering sessions lied. She admitted that she lied! She stated that she had only seen him showering or swimming with the kids when all parties were wearing swimming gear. But I didn't see this on the front page, absolving him of someone else's lies.

And the "victim"'s father had been overheard numerous times bragging to friends about how he would ruin MJ, get money out of him, that he couldn't lose. His son, who accused MJ of molestation, repeatedly emphasized that MJ wouldn't do anything like that, that they were friends, and that he loved his friend.

The Big Confession happened after the boy's father allowed him to be administered with Amytal. Amytal is a barbiturate that has been controversially used in psychiatric therapy, as some claim it can help release repressed memories of ritual abuse. Yet the confession happened while the child was receiving dental treatment. It was not even administered by a shrink in an effort to get the child to release bad memories. There was nothing ethical about its use, and possibly nothing legal, either. Nor is Amytal the truth serum some doctors hoped for. It is used occasionally to help restore memories to amnesia patients!

Conspiracies hurt innocent people, and in this case, they broke a peculiar but loving friendship. We're pointing our fingers at Weird Mike the whole time that our little Missy is bobbing for apples with the Sunday School teacher-or her own father.

I'm a fan of Michael's. He reigns the entertainment world, although he never applied for the job. He is a psychoanalytical puzzle, neither male nor female, human nor plastic, old nor young, black nor white. He transcends our boundaries. I can't help him if it's help he needs, I can't offer him my friendship from here. I don't know the man. And it isn't my business! My business is what I do with the gifts he gave me, great music and videos. How can we forget that he paved the way in a thousand of ways? He united the worlds of black and white pop. His choreography and videos were pioneers of style and technique. Even Madonna wiggles in his footsteps. Tough rap stars thank him first when picking up their awards, Michael who made it possible.

Who cares if Mikey's song lyrics are all bad heart-breakers about sick children and healing the world? He's a brilliant dancer with ass-shaking grooves. What gooey, gorgeous, slippery r&b. Some of the smoothest, silkiest sounds are on his latest album, Invincible. Who cares what we think, anyhow? Michael already holds world records in his hand, and a stellar imagination in his weird little head, and more money than he can ever spend. Did you know that Michael donates money regularly, in brain-boggling sums, to a vast variety of charities? When was the last time you stopped yapping about his nose and gave money to a shelter or soup kitchen?

And who knows how I would end up if I had been thrown into the voracious jaws of celebrity culture. Who knows how my insecurities would reveal themselves. Is his racial or sexual insecurity really such a crime? Would we hate Cher so much if her surgeon wasn't so skilled with his scissors?

What propels us to hate Michael Jackson?

The answer leaves a sick feeling in the bottom of my soul. It's because even the educated, tolerant, intelligent, socially conscious, artistic populace refuses to see the filth-infested dysfunctions in our own homes and souls. We are in denial. We'd rather pretend we hate hunger and horror than to acknowledge the face in the mirror as causing it.

Years ago, my school principal told me that we would not be having a memorial or any kind of commemoration for Elaine, a punk rock chick who was murdered, my friend. He said that she wasn't "active in school academics or sports" and that her lifestyle, selection of crowd, and alleged drug use (yep, it was pot) didn't make her someone we wanted to celebrate. Unworthy.

Brazenly, as I was once, at seventeen, I leaned forward and told him, "Mark my words; the worst rot seethes beneath the faces of your favourite students."

A few years later my words came to light. Candy-faced, blonde, beautiful and smart, straight-A student Karla Homolka was on the front page of the papers. Along with her husband Paul Bernardo, this girl with whom I had attended school, was arrested for the sex slayings of several girls. One of these girls was her own sister.

The blinds are down in your house.



A thorough, admirable treatment of the MJ child abuse question was written by Mary A. Fischer for GQ magazine in October 1994. Perhaps Rosie O'Donnell will consider reading it before cracking harmful, unwarranted pedophile jokes about a man who may be innocent.
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Reply #1 posted 04/19/04 8:35am

TheRealFiness

are you always this Longwinded? smile
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Reply #2 posted 04/19/04 9:09am

Handclapsfinga
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Luv4oneanotha said:

bunch of stuff

that ain't why i don't care for him and how he is nowadays. speak for yourself. neutral
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Reply #3 posted 04/19/04 9:47am

LightOfArt

Luv4oneanotha said:

Now I for one am a lil tired of the MJ talk for one but this essay Caught my eye
it is Very Unbiased and will satisfy Skeptics and Loyal Fans alike
Injoy

The Man in the Mirror
by Lorette C. Luzajic
We are a fickle and easily led population. When it comes to mass culture, we're unable to acknowledge quality entertainment. We slot the sultry-voiced passions of talentress Shakira right beside Britney and Christina A. It's "in" among arty intellectuals and academes to lambaste mass market artists, and I'll do it myself if it means making room on the radio airwaves for new talent. But it's hardly fair to dismiss every famous writer, artist or musician who hits the big time. Give credit where it's due.

In the good old days of school, any prof I heard yelping about post-classics writers got questioned. Best-seller writers were always hip targets of academic wrath. But "What writer knows so intimately the human heart, in all its ordinariness, in all its darkness, than Stephen King?" And if the teacher began laughing the puppet-laughter of the More Intellectual Than Thou, I could only ask, "But have you read him?'

Every intelligent person knows that you can't form an impression until you know something of your topic. Otherwise, you are only following what other people think, a worse crime than a secret penchant for Backstreet Boy syrup.

Mass culture built Michael Jackson into the King of Pop, and then it turned its head away when it couldn't handle the crucified monster it had built. I'm sick of hearing "thinking" people Michael-bashing along with the ignorant herds who still call him "faggot" in grade eight. Michael, who tried to tell us in his latest album that he is Invincible isn't even afforded the joy of being invisible. Whether it's the subway, the supermarket, or a poetry reading, I'm still listening to smart people insulting him.

I don't owe Michael anything, and I can't rescue the damaged, over-grown boy from La La land to redeem his public credibility or his broken soul. But truth is important to me, and if people are bent on batting and battering, they're going to need a little substance in their analysis. Maybe the public finds MJ less thrilling than he used to be. The Child Molester with the melting face, still singing crap about rescuing the kiddies. Still can't decide if he's a boy or a girl. Still can't decide if he's black or white. Still namedropping Ma Liz at every benefit dinner. Pathetic.

Or is it? Since when are a person's insecurities good reasons to pick on them? Who cares if Mikey is gay or straight? Could we please stop tormenting this poor, unstable man? Why aren't my private neurotic habits on the daily news?

Michael might be shakier and younger in his head than most men his age, but he's human. And child diddler? How very, very predictable that even the pseudo-intellectuals are blaming the weirdos for child abuse.

I wrote a poem once, lamenting the mentality with which we accused him of hurting children. Lock up your little boys/It's not his idols that are eating him alive/It's the closed doors in your own house/It's the closed minds in your own house/The blinds are down in your house.

It isn't the world freak that hurts your kiddies, Ma. It's your husband, your father, your sister. It's the man in the mirror, and you know that deep inside of you. Uncle Bob, Doc Smith, Teacher Emma. These are the ones with their hands in the cookie jar. Statistics, biographies, psychologists and social workers have proven it.

The allegations on Jackson were the end result of a witch-hunt that began when we were embarrassed for obsessing over a hot black man in tight jeans who showed up later as an alien. Kind of like running into your stud ex- who is now waxed and wearing a dress. What do you do with this big sense of "oops"?

We are stupid to conclude that MJ wouldn't have paid off anyone to settle out of court if he were innocent. Perhaps Jackson made a foolish move…but he believed that it would be best for himself and for the child involved to settle with as little fanfare as possible.

Michael Jackson didn't do it. I don't' know him personally, but it made sense to me to do a little bit of research when I heard that one of my favourite icons was molesting kids. He's innocent.

The maid who took $20 000 to report on the MJ and friends showering sessions lied. She admitted that she lied! She stated that she had only seen him showering or swimming with the kids when all parties were wearing swimming gear. But I didn't see this on the front page, absolving him of someone else's lies.

And the "victim"'s father had been overheard numerous times bragging to friends about how he would ruin MJ, get money out of him, that he couldn't lose. His son, who accused MJ of molestation, repeatedly emphasized that MJ wouldn't do anything like that, that they were friends, and that he loved his friend.

The Big Confession happened after the boy's father allowed him to be administered with Amytal. Amytal is a barbiturate that has been controversially used in psychiatric therapy, as some claim it can help release repressed memories of ritual abuse. Yet the confession happened while the child was receiving dental treatment. It was not even administered by a shrink in an effort to get the child to release bad memories. There was nothing ethical about its use, and possibly nothing legal, either. Nor is Amytal the truth serum some doctors hoped for. It is used occasionally to help restore memories to amnesia patients!

Conspiracies hurt innocent people, and in this case, they broke a peculiar but loving friendship. We're pointing our fingers at Weird Mike the whole time that our little Missy is bobbing for apples with the Sunday School teacher-or her own father.

I'm a fan of Michael's. He reigns the entertainment world, although he never applied for the job. He is a psychoanalytical puzzle, neither male nor female, human nor plastic, old nor young, black nor white. He transcends our boundaries. I can't help him if it's help he needs, I can't offer him my friendship from here. I don't know the man. And it isn't my business! My business is what I do with the gifts he gave me, great music and videos. How can we forget that he paved the way in a thousand of ways? He united the worlds of black and white pop. His choreography and videos were pioneers of style and technique. Even Madonna wiggles in his footsteps. Tough rap stars thank him first when picking up their awards, Michael who made it possible.

Who cares if Mikey's song lyrics are all bad heart-breakers about sick children and healing the world? He's a brilliant dancer with ass-shaking grooves. What gooey, gorgeous, slippery r&b. Some of the smoothest, silkiest sounds are on his latest album, Invincible. Who cares what we think, anyhow? Michael already holds world records in his hand, and a stellar imagination in his weird little head, and more money than he can ever spend. Did you know that Michael donates money regularly, in brain-boggling sums, to a vast variety of charities? When was the last time you stopped yapping about his nose and gave money to a shelter or soup kitchen?

And who knows how I would end up if I had been thrown into the voracious jaws of celebrity culture. Who knows how my insecurities would reveal themselves. Is his racial or sexual insecurity really such a crime? Would we hate Cher so much if her surgeon wasn't so skilled with his scissors?

What propels us to hate Michael Jackson?

The answer leaves a sick feeling in the bottom of my soul. It's because even the educated, tolerant, intelligent, socially conscious, artistic populace refuses to see the filth-infested dysfunctions in our own homes and souls. We are in denial. We'd rather pretend we hate hunger and horror than to acknowledge the face in the mirror as causing it.

Years ago, my school principal told me that we would not be having a memorial or any kind of commemoration for Elaine, a punk rock chick who was murdered, my friend. He said that she wasn't "active in school academics or sports" and that her lifestyle, selection of crowd, and alleged drug use (yep, it was pot) didn't make her someone we wanted to celebrate. Unworthy.

Brazenly, as I was once, at seventeen, I leaned forward and told him, "Mark my words; the worst rot seethes beneath the faces of your favourite students."

A few years later my words came to light. Candy-faced, blonde, beautiful and smart, straight-A student Karla Homolka was on the front page of the papers. Along with her husband Paul Bernardo, this girl with whom I had attended school, was arrested for the sex slayings of several girls. One of these girls was her own sister.

The blinds are down in your house.



A thorough, admirable treatment of the MJ child abuse question was written by Mary A. Fischer for GQ magazine in October 1994. Perhaps Rosie O'Donnell will consider reading it before cracking harmful, unwarranted pedophile jokes about a man who may be innocent.


Too right u know! Those narrow-minded people should just stop fucking with him! It makess me wanna SCREAM wink

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Reply #4 posted 04/19/04 11:02am

VoicesCarry

What propels us to hate Michael Jackson?

The answer leaves a sick feeling in the bottom of my soul. It's because even the educated, tolerant, intelligent, socially conscious, artistic populace refuses to see the filth-infested dysfunctions in our own homes and souls. We are in denial. We'd rather pretend we hate hunger and horror than to acknowledge the face in the mirror as causing it.

Years ago, my school principal told me that we would not be having a memorial or any kind of commemoration for Elaine, a punk rock chick who was murdered, my friend. He said that she wasn't "active in school academics or sports" and that her lifestyle, selection of crowd, and alleged drug use (yep, it was pot) didn't make her someone we wanted to celebrate. Unworthy.

Brazenly, as I was once, at seventeen, I leaned forward and told him, "Mark my words; the worst rot seethes beneath the faces of your favourite students."


LMAO lol We're supposed to take this seriously? This Lorette bitch has some major issues she needs to work out before she writes another article and generalizes it to everyone in the whole wide world. If I had a nickel for every bullshit "We hate Michael Jackson because of our deep-rooted social ills" article, I'd be richer than, well - Michael Jackson.
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Reply #5 posted 04/19/04 11:33am

Marrk

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I don't hate Michael Jackson! He's fucking great. woot!
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Reply #6 posted 04/19/04 12:01pm

Adisa

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boo
I'm sick and tired of the Prince fans being sick and tired of the Prince fans that are sick and tired!
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Reply #7 posted 04/19/04 3:05pm

POOK

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THAT GUY SURE LIKE TO READ OWN WORD

ESPECIALLY WORD WE ALREADY READ

FROM EVERYONE ELSE

P o o |/,
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Reply #8 posted 04/19/04 3:36pm

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i like mj. i don't like all of his choices but i also don't think he molested any children. i don't think, however, that the general public needs to have self hate issues in order to find mj's behaviour strange. i don't think most people need to have deep rooted emotional problems to think he is guilty. the fact is if the single guy at the end of the street liked to have kids over his house all the time and then accusations arose, he would also be considered a pedophile. does that mean he definitely did it? no. but it also doesn't mean his actions were appropriate. it also doesn't mean we'd have deep rooted social issues to believe the accusations.
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Reply #9 posted 04/19/04 6:26pm

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I love MJ
And like His promise is true
only my faith can undo
the many chances I blew-R.I.P. Left Eye
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Reply #10 posted 04/19/04 11:18pm

WildStyle

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Marrk said:

I don't hate Michael Jackson! He's fucking great. woot!


co-sign biggrin
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Reply #11 posted 04/19/04 11:28pm

Novabreaker

Luv4oneanotha said:

Years ago, my school principal told me that we would not be having a memorial or any kind of commemoration for Elaine, a punk rock chick who was murdered, my friend. He said that she wasn't "active in school academics or sports" and that her lifestyle, selection of crowd, and alleged drug use (yep, it was pot) didn't make her someone we wanted to celebrate. Unworthy.

Brazenly, as I was once, at seventeen, I leaned forward and told him, "Mark my words; the worst rot seethes beneath the faces of your favourite students."

A few years later my words came to light. Candy-faced, blonde, beautiful and smart, straight-A student Karla Homolka was on the front page of the papers. Along with her husband Paul Bernardo, this girl with whom I had attended school, was arrested for the sex slayings of several girls. One of these girls was her own sister.


Hah.
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Reply #12 posted 04/20/04 7:13am

LightOfArt

I dont hate him he is the best...We must not expect him be normal by our standards...he will never be! He was a star when he was born..and today he is the most famous star on the planet...I think his weird behaviours are well..cool...and oh yes I think he didnt do it...I dont think someone who can write such a song like Heal The World can be a pedophile..atleast i hope

WE ARE THE WORLD...GOOD OLD DAYS neutral
[This message was edited Tue Apr 20 7:15:06 2004 by LightOfArt]
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Reply #13 posted 04/20/04 7:49am

riverdean7

people hate him cause there jealous of him pure and simple
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Reply #14 posted 04/27/04 2:24am

ML88

I love him
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Reply #15 posted 04/27/04 2:29am

Luv4oneanotha

Light thanks for changin ur avatar
it was seriously giving me the creeps lol
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Reply #16 posted 04/27/04 5:02am

Rhondab

riverdean7 said:

people hate him cause there jealous of him pure and simple



eek disbelief


I think people simply have issues with Michael's decision making skills. I personally have issues with MJ because of how he only screams "racism" after he's made some bad decisions.


Michael is the last person on the planet I would be jealous of.
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Reply #17 posted 04/27/04 5:29am

Luv4oneanotha

Rhondab said:

riverdean7 said:

people hate him cause there jealous of him pure and simple



eek disbelief


I think people simply have issues with Michael's decision making skills. I personally have issues with MJ because of how he only screams "racism" after he's made some bad decisions.


Michael is the last person on the planet I would be jealous of.


elaborate on mj screaming racism?
i just remember the matolla nonesense
and err
he's gone...
People have issues beyound decision making
thats pretty much obvious
skin color
plastic surgery
children
we don't know him so we assume things
we are afraid of what we don't know
that is human nature
only a thief judges a thief because of his own guilt
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Reply #18 posted 04/27/04 5:49am

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Reply #19 posted 04/27/04 7:43am

MightBQueen

i'm a little sorry for him, tell the truth. i think Prince is too, based on recent press...
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Reply #20 posted 04/27/04 8:38am

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Marrk said:

I don't hate Michael Jackson! He's fucking great. woot!


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Reply #21 posted 04/27/04 9:56am

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Look, I'm not a fan of MJ (I repect much of his output, but I'm not wild about his most recent work), but I have to say that the more I read about his alleged abuse of children, the more I think he's become an easy target for opportunists. He's a weirdo, and that makes people automatically assume that he HAS to be guilty of these crimes.
jedi

Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9)
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Reply #22 posted 04/27/04 10:04am

Luv4oneanotha

JediMaster said:

Look, I'm not a fan of MJ (I repect much of his output, but I'm not wild about his most recent work), but I have to say that the more I read about his alleged abuse of children, the more I think he's become an easy target for opportunists. He's a weirdo, and that makes people automatically assume that he HAS to be guilty of these crimes.

yup
i mean ive asked alot of people
some are undecided and alot WAnt him to be guilty
with a vengence, its like they have some sort of vendetta against him
passionately, they don't need evidence they want him to be guilty
and its sad...
he's weird so he deserves to be thrown in jail
i dunno but i find something wrong with that
He's weird so he's automatically a child abuser
its wrong
people need to look at themselves and see who the real problem is
i mean why should we care anyway, we don't know him personally
why doe sthere have to be so much hate and turmoil,
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Reply #23 posted 04/27/04 10:39am

Cloudbuster

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'Cos everyone needs someone to hate.
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Reply #24 posted 04/27/04 11:09am

JediMaster

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Cloudbuster said:

'Cos everyone needs someone to hate.


Too true. A weirdo like Michael is easy to hate. Its almost like people feel his strangeness will infect others. I guess this is a primal thing: the herd culling out those that are genetically damaged. You'd hope that we, as human beings, would rise above that.
jedi

Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9)
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Reply #25 posted 04/27/04 3:03pm

jn2

what about Tito?
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Reply #26 posted 04/27/04 3:07pm

Rhondab

Luv4oneanotha said:

Rhondab said:




eek disbelief


I think people simply have issues with Michael's decision making skills. I personally have issues with MJ because of how he only screams "racism" after he's made some bad decisions.


Michael is the last person on the planet I would be jealous of.


elaborate on mj screaming racism?
i just remember the matolla nonesense
and err
he's gone...
People have issues beyound decision making
thats pretty much obvious
skin color
plastic surgery
children
we don't know him so we assume things


During the first allegations, MJ screamed he was a victim of racism. Remember him all of a sudden making all these appearances on programs and shows he would never appear on. But as soon as that was over, he went back tot he same ole behavior.

I'm simply uninterested in what happens to him. Whatever happens, so be it.
we are afraid of what we don't know
that is human nature
only a thief judges a thief because of his own guilt
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Reply #27 posted 04/27/04 4:41pm

Therapy

The important thing I've taken from this article, is that actually, I don't know what the truth is. And only MJ does. The same goes for any problem issues that he has in his life.

The behaviour to watch is my own towards Michael. It's so easy to use another person's image as a dumping ground/scapegoat for my own unwanted parts of self, ie. weirdo, ugly... perhaps my own issues of seeing myself as a weirdo or ugly are the issues I need to focus on. It does feel good to be empathic and that's one thing I've not afforded to him at all in the past.
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Reply #28 posted 04/28/04 6:12am

riverdean7

love4one people care because hes the most famous person in the world not just most famous artist but famous person if it wasnt michael then it would be someone else
i think its amazing considering the amout of hate directed his way hes never actually said a bad word against anyone(ok mottoloa aside)
hes like a train he just rolls on no mattter whats put in front of him i truly think that if most people were in his shoes that woulda ended it all years ago but as mj said himself he has rhinoceros skin
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Reply #29 posted 04/30/04 5:29pm

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I have been a big fan of MJ since I can remember & have all his albums too.

I think alot of the negativity surrounding MJ is created by the media, which really began in the 1980's, espically in the UK where the UK tabloids dubbed him 'Wacko Jacko'. MJ, his then manager Frank Dileo and PR team actually 'planted' some of these stories in the newspapers. If u read J Randy Taraborrelli's book it details why MJ did this, I think he wanted 2 appear as 'more' interesting and mysterious but instead the media created this distorted image of MJ which has IMO effected his career. So the media is partly 2 blame 4 the negativity, criticism, ridicule etc. aimed 2wards MJ.

MJ is 1 of the most successful recording artists of all-time, with 50 million + sales of 'Thriller' and he also co-wrote 'We Are The World' and 'What More Can I Give' for charity, yet this is ignored by the press who are more concerned with his personal life. For me, I'm a fan of MJ because he is such a talented singer/dancer, yet this has been overshadowed by the media and those who have made judgements based on unsubstantial evidence and rumours.

I think that if you took a closer look at MJ's lyrics and his songs you can see that he cares about others, espically children. Also look at MJ's life itself, he was a child star, on stage since a young age and most of his life he has been in the public eye. I suggest 2 those that when you next make a judgment of MJ listen 2 the lyrics to 'Childhood' on HIStory, which is quite obviously a biographical song, espically the lyric 'B4 u judge me, try hard 2 love me...', bcuz I think that such a great singer/dancer like MJ, who obviously cares alot about others, deserves alot better than 2 b ridiculed, criticised or judged.

Just my twocents
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