Subject:
Michael Jackson and African American Public Figures
Vs. The Media
Date:
July 8, 2009 10:31:49 PM PDT
To:
scoop@huffingtonpost.com
“Now perhaps Michael can
rest in peace from the biased media. Like in life, breaking down barriers, Michael has introduced
the insensitive media to a new thought, African American males are not fair game for insensitive, biased
and racially angry style coverage. Michael has not been proven guilty. White
males have been sued for many things where they pay people off. When you have un-classy persons as the boy and
mom whom Michael went to trial against comes forward for money you fight or you pay. Note that during the trial,
their time-line was not on point, something that you wouldn't do if you were telling the truth. If
everyone remembers, the Jackson family was there in force despite the reports that they don't get along,
including Father Joe. They are always there for each other. Remember, they also filing
for malicious prosecution because of the influence of the media's zealous on the prosecution staff. I
understand why they didn't, because it would have given the media pendants more fuel for their "opinions".
As for Michael sleeping with children, Elvis slept in the same bed with a teenaged
girl for years, imported her across state and country lines. No one called him a pedophile, no one wanted him
charged and arrested. Woody Allen admitted not only sleeping with his own teen daughter, but admitted
having sex with his underage daughter, and no one wanted him charged and arrested.
As
for Michael and drugs: Elvis died in a drug bed and yet he's called a hero and people run around
saying their idol "is still alive". In movies like "Independence Day" life imitates
art where people have banners to aliens "bring back Elvis". If fans can worship Elvis and
disregard his disgraceful history, African Americans and all ethnicities and peoples of the world can love Michael for
his excellence and disregard "allegations" of wrongdoings without newscasters trying to tell us
how his fans should feel.
As for Michael having a doctor
with him at home, I am from the Elvis era, and was in the arts when Michael was, as Brooke Shields said,
Michael was five starting his career. Therefore, I followed the positives and negatives of both Elvis
and Michael. It was reported that Elvis, while in the military, I believe, was found to have spent several days
locked up in a room with drugs and a doctor. Locked up, meaning no one was allowed in. We
all know that Elvis was a drug addict during most all his career. We are really just now hearing
that perhaps Michael allegedly had problems in recent years; certainly he didn't have a drug problem all
those years ago when he began to break records and break down barriers. That is what we celebrate.
Even if the allegations are by a stretch of my imagination true, he's dead now. My Mother said
"If you don't have anything good to say about the dead, don't say anything".
I
hope the media and other "holy" persons, will remember since the media is dominated by people
who are of one ethnic group, the news commentators don't have dictatorship over to whom we world believes
the world's leaders and icons are. It seems that our African American male public figures are treated
as a non-entity, with disregard as to how many and whom it hurts, not just the public figure, but their
family, their income, their friends, and very importantly, their professional careers. White male
counterparts seem to be forgiven, protected and/or certainly reported on with more sensitivity.
As
regards the soldiers coming home on the same day as Michael's memorial and receiving no coverage. You
have your President Bush to thank for that. He dictated that there be no coverage of the soldiers
returning home, did you get upset and complain about him doing that as a rule, and not just one day that
Michael was memorialized. If those who are so against Michael receiving a little of our time, tell
the media and the world to tare down "Graceland" because Elvis was a pedophile, a drug addict
and is still worshipped by some just as Michael will continue to be in "all" of our life times.
I can go on with parallels of the media's reporting biased, especially when reporting about African
American male figures. I thank Michael for continuing to do in death what he did in life, care about
people by making changes.”
Below is a blog I wrote about Michael Jackson as the media assassination
continued even after his death.
