Michael Jackson
If I may, I'd like to share a text-message exchange I had with my sister Lydia yesterday...
Me: MJ. not guilty.
Lyd: Knew it! He's ASEXUAL. Not a momo-PEDAPHILE (note: momo is our slang for a homosexual). He wasn't tryna get those boys!
Reactions run the gamut don't they? His weird uber-fans rejoiced in jubilee. His lawyers lost all decorum and burst into tears. There are photographs of people with facial expressions that range from shock to disgust to incredulity. Jemele is absolute in her certainty that he molests children. I, on the other hand, am not.
To me, the short of it is this: Mike has problems. He's eccentric, quirky, creepy, maybe even a bit disturbing...but there's a clear, discernable, dangerous, criminal jump from creepy to pedaphile. And as far as I can tell, without having paid more than a cumulative 20 minutes of attention to this trial, the Santa Barbara defense team wasn't exactly proving their case beyond the shadow of a doubt. So why the fuss over the Not Guilty verdict? You people want to see this man thrown in jail off a hunch? Off an assumption?
People like to joke about this man's demons, whatever they may be, and then all of sudden get serious about them. Do you want to see him in captivity so he can be rehibilitated or to quench a thirst for sensationalism?
And let's not even get on the subject that if I was Mike, I would've never seen a court room, because I DON'T HAVE MONEY. What are you going to get from me? Right now, I've reverted back to my Metro scam where I follow a paying patron through the turnstile, just so I can save the $2.00. There I am, nuts-to-butts with some broad-back K Street lawyer, because I'm not trying to pay train-fare. If I'm doing that, then you know you aren't extorting or legally binding me to some civil payoff for "allegedly" touchin your kid's rubes. And this could've happened, too. I had a slew of fatherless boys in my old congregation and I was determined to be a positive role-model for them and provide some adult-male interaction. I used to take them to movies, out to eat, play football. Even had a sleep over once, where me and my man Mike had about 10-12 lil dues ages 8-12 up in my apartment (still got lemon starburst stuck to my couch cushion). Imagine if I were a feminine acting dude, had crazy dough, and a public image of sexual-mystery.
Mike couldn't and can't win.
Mike has got dough that'd turn a straight man gay, so that blood-sucking, money-grubbing Moms saw that 'S' with the two slashes in her eyes and was tryna get at that paper. Shame on her. Right?
Then again, maybe not. Maybe she was a little supicious of Mike to begin with -- doubtful, since his sexuality and socially queer relation with kids was already public, so why should release her unsupervised child into his care on that Ranch if she was suspicious? -- and one day her son told her something that caused these suspicions to rage into fear. Maybe she really believed Mike had molested her son and she wasn't just after his stax. Who knows...
What we do know is Mike is weird. Did you see him close mouth kiss Lisa Pressly? Did you then see the next broad he married. That big-faced broad looked like Linda Tripp...why did he do that?
Look at his face.
No...look at his face! Mike was such a handsome black man when he was younger...now...look at his face! Not his body, his face. Not his hair, his face. Look at it.
This all leads to a much larger issue in my book: one's upbringing.
Apparently, Mike and Joe didn't get along. Mike hid under the table from Joe and sang to rats. Mike was a Momma's boy. Mike's aversion for his father runs so deep, that he talks with a tone and pitch of a debutante, changed all his facial features and his skin tone to the opposite end of the Joe spectrum...but more importantly, developed a love and concern for children that he yearned for and his father never gave him.
I'm not trying to get sappy, and yes I'm giving dude a huge and somewhat all-encompassing pass...but I really think that's where it begins...with his abusive, deviant, cold relationship with his Pops. Kids don't recover from that, yo. When you break a childs spirit and those tiny portions of their heart and psyche close, they close off for good -- sometimes with no chance of rehibilitation.
Add INSANE childhood stardom to Mike's abusive father and you have a screwed up adult, who I think GENUINELY wants for kids to live a different life than he did and he thinks he has the means to do so.
With much trepidation, I applaud Mike. He could've processed everything he's gone through and been cold to the world, but he's handled it differently. On a very rudimentary level, what's the difference between an African kid that grew up starving, gets rich and starts feeding the poor?
I'm not absolving homeboy of anything, but the judging should desist...let's save that for ****heads like R. Kelly.
And by the way...Top 5 most influential music artists of our lifetime (1979-present), in the context of their music...
1. Mike Jackson
2. Prince
3. Nirvana
4. Jay-Z
5. Wynton Marsalis
With that said...my least favorite Mike video is probably the most appropriate for this discussion. It involved him riding a roller-coast with Bubbles the Monkey on his lap..."Leave Me Alone"
Let the dude breathe yall.
Me: MJ. not guilty.
Lyd: Knew it! He's ASEXUAL. Not a momo-PEDAPHILE (note: momo is our slang for a homosexual). He wasn't tryna get those boys!
Reactions run the gamut don't they? His weird uber-fans rejoiced in jubilee. His lawyers lost all decorum and burst into tears. There are photographs of people with facial expressions that range from shock to disgust to incredulity. Jemele is absolute in her certainty that he molests children. I, on the other hand, am not.
To me, the short of it is this: Mike has problems. He's eccentric, quirky, creepy, maybe even a bit disturbing...but there's a clear, discernable, dangerous, criminal jump from creepy to pedaphile. And as far as I can tell, without having paid more than a cumulative 20 minutes of attention to this trial, the Santa Barbara defense team wasn't exactly proving their case beyond the shadow of a doubt. So why the fuss over the Not Guilty verdict? You people want to see this man thrown in jail off a hunch? Off an assumption?
People like to joke about this man's demons, whatever they may be, and then all of sudden get serious about them. Do you want to see him in captivity so he can be rehibilitated or to quench a thirst for sensationalism?
And let's not even get on the subject that if I was Mike, I would've never seen a court room, because I DON'T HAVE MONEY. What are you going to get from me? Right now, I've reverted back to my Metro scam where I follow a paying patron through the turnstile, just so I can save the $2.00. There I am, nuts-to-butts with some broad-back K Street lawyer, because I'm not trying to pay train-fare. If I'm doing that, then you know you aren't extorting or legally binding me to some civil payoff for "allegedly" touchin your kid's rubes. And this could've happened, too. I had a slew of fatherless boys in my old congregation and I was determined to be a positive role-model for them and provide some adult-male interaction. I used to take them to movies, out to eat, play football. Even had a sleep over once, where me and my man Mike had about 10-12 lil dues ages 8-12 up in my apartment (still got lemon starburst stuck to my couch cushion). Imagine if I were a feminine acting dude, had crazy dough, and a public image of sexual-mystery.
Mike couldn't and can't win.
Mike has got dough that'd turn a straight man gay, so that blood-sucking, money-grubbing Moms saw that 'S' with the two slashes in her eyes and was tryna get at that paper. Shame on her. Right?
Then again, maybe not. Maybe she was a little supicious of Mike to begin with -- doubtful, since his sexuality and socially queer relation with kids was already public, so why should release her unsupervised child into his care on that Ranch if she was suspicious? -- and one day her son told her something that caused these suspicions to rage into fear. Maybe she really believed Mike had molested her son and she wasn't just after his stax. Who knows...
What we do know is Mike is weird. Did you see him close mouth kiss Lisa Pressly? Did you then see the next broad he married. That big-faced broad looked like Linda Tripp...why did he do that?
Look at his face.
No...look at his face! Mike was such a handsome black man when he was younger...now...look at his face! Not his body, his face. Not his hair, his face. Look at it.
This all leads to a much larger issue in my book: one's upbringing.
Apparently, Mike and Joe didn't get along. Mike hid under the table from Joe and sang to rats. Mike was a Momma's boy. Mike's aversion for his father runs so deep, that he talks with a tone and pitch of a debutante, changed all his facial features and his skin tone to the opposite end of the Joe spectrum...but more importantly, developed a love and concern for children that he yearned for and his father never gave him.
I'm not trying to get sappy, and yes I'm giving dude a huge and somewhat all-encompassing pass...but I really think that's where it begins...with his abusive, deviant, cold relationship with his Pops. Kids don't recover from that, yo. When you break a childs spirit and those tiny portions of their heart and psyche close, they close off for good -- sometimes with no chance of rehibilitation.
Add INSANE childhood stardom to Mike's abusive father and you have a screwed up adult, who I think GENUINELY wants for kids to live a different life than he did and he thinks he has the means to do so.
With much trepidation, I applaud Mike. He could've processed everything he's gone through and been cold to the world, but he's handled it differently. On a very rudimentary level, what's the difference between an African kid that grew up starving, gets rich and starts feeding the poor?
I'm not absolving homeboy of anything, but the judging should desist...let's save that for ****heads like R. Kelly.
And by the way...Top 5 most influential music artists of our lifetime (1979-present), in the context of their music...
1. Mike Jackson
2. Prince
3. Nirvana
4. Jay-Z
5. Wynton Marsalis
With that said...my least favorite Mike video is probably the most appropriate for this discussion. It involved him riding a roller-coast with Bubbles the Monkey on his lap..."Leave Me Alone"
Let the dude breathe yall.
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