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John Nichols: The King Of Pop Was An Imperfect Icon Who Became America's Global Face
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- You do not simply buy someone off to prevent or make a problem go away. Spending millions of dollars to settle a case out of court is not an admission of guilt, but it is also not stand of innocence. Either you did or you didn't do the crime, it became an issue of money after a certain point in time, go ask OJ.
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- Thou it is very sad that MJ died so young, I believe that, like Elvis, MJ's best days as an artist and performer were behind him.
This is what differentiates the level of tragedy between MJ's death and the untimely deaths of John Lennon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Marley and Buddy Holly who all left us with, perhaps, their greatest works unrealized. - Reply to this comment
- MJ was a great entertainer, but he wasn't the first black entertainer to connect with whites, as some of the media have portrayed. What about Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, the Supremes, Dionne Warwick, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Cannonball Adderley, etc., etc.? MJ had some huge disco hits, but plenty of us never really liked disco all that much. If the face of the U.S. to the rest of the world is based on an entertainer, we don't have much to show for ourselves. Not to downplay the role that MJ played in some people's lives, but there are better songwriters (Dylan, Costello, etc.). He was gifted and a great dancer, but he wasn't the be-all and end-all of 20th century American culture.
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- No it wasn't as easy as A_B_C; 1-2-3; doe-ray-mi !!
To see that song's music video over again;
with the happy innocent 13 year old Michael
sing & dancing with all that fresh face energy
& realize the end result has brought a pang of melancholy.
Was it the final sudden feeling that the dreams of the baby boomers was finished.
They like him started with ideas of endless possibilities of America's promise
of the new garden of eden.
Now we ,amerika or the modern world feel & look like Michael.
Pop goes the king & all the other bubbles of our sixties childhood.
Cut, carved, veiled, shrouded, confused, deluded
yes sounds like the current global milieu. - Reply to this comment
- OJ got off, too.
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- My local department store is having a Michael Jackson Clothing Sale.
Boys pants are half off. - Reply to this comment
- It is a global event because the press is a collection of absolute morons. With all that is going on in the world both good and bad, they waste everyones time with articles and shows about this weirdo. He died because he was an idiot taking drugs, how about an article or two about the regular everyday heros that die. Our police, our military, the good father or mother. No...they die unnoticed. The press is only interested when someone from the press dies or someone with more fame then they have. It's a total waste of time.
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- No big fan, but I'm sure he did a hell of a lot more for humanity (AIDS, We Are The World) than you've ever done in your sad little life.
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- He was just another stoked up junkie from the entertainment world. He did absolutely nothing for humanity or the society.
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- Misinformation. This is getting ridiculous.
It was NEVER found that Michael molested boys. Not once, though the forces of the state were marshalled to try to prove that he did.
He was -acquitted-, not convicted. And the charges were obvious gold-digging to try to get their hands on his money.
In the US, you're innocent until proven guilty, so please don't misinform.
And what a sad, sad, commentary about yourself, that you so detest anyone who doesn't look like you. - Reply to this comment
- That's simple. They're not his. That's well-known now.
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- Do you have evidence that MJ molested boys?
If you do, I'd love to see it, since even the State of California could not produce any convincing evidence.
Remember, he was acquitted. In the US, you're innocent until proven guilty. - Reply to this comment
- One more silly bash.
He didn't try to change his color. He had Vitiglio, a disease common to Black people that affects the pigment of his skin, often resulting in an ugly blotching of dark and light spots. He'd been under treatment for it for years. - Reply to this comment
- Your last comment was not just unfortunate, but un-American.
In this country, people are innocent until proven guilty. I do not believe that MJ was a pedophile, though he surely loved children and felt most comfortable around them. And no wonder. He never had a childhood - he was used to power the entertainment machine from a very early age, and the people who surrounded him were people with an agenda - to get his money.
Only with children could he find unbound affection, devoid of greed, and his lost years.
He was never convicted of any untoward act towards children... and the entire force of the state was brought against him, with a vengeance. The last case was obviously golddigging, as the jury and everyone else with a brain realized early on.
So, your accusation of him being a pedophile is just one more example of the cr*p he had to deal with in his life. You have no evidence or experience to back it, so it's just more name-calling.
MJ was one of our greatest musicians and entertainers. He deserved better than that. - Reply to this comment
- Small things amuse small minds, and the food chain gets smaller and smaller.....
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- Michael Jackson's death is in one sense of the word, a tragedy, but it is of no loss in another. He was a great music icon in his day, but as he got older it was found that he molested several young boy's and even slept with them in his bed.
Because he was who he was it was brushed aside and the public seemed to forgive him, but had the molestation been one of their children I'm sure the tale would have ended differently. He was a sick human being and in his later years became freakish in appearance.
Now that he is dead he will be made a martyr, which is terrible. He is not worthy. Fortunately for his children, he will be worth more finacially dead than he was alive. My sympathy goes out to his family, but he doesn't deserve this daily news and talk of his greatness. He was a freak. - Reply to this comment
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- Misinformation. This is getting ridiculous.
It was NEVER found that Michael molested boys. Not once, though the forces of the state were marshalled to try to prove that he did.
He was -acquitted-, not convicted. And the charges were obvious gold-digging to try to get their hands on his money.
In the US, you're innocent until proven guilty, so please don't misinform.
And what a sad, sad, commentary about yourself, that you so detest anyone who doesn't look like you.
- Misinformation. This is getting ridiculous.
- Loved Ya Michael
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- P.S. So next time leave me out media, unless it's Clint Eastwood.
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- Unless you were born in the Jackson era it's just another passing of a man. He may have been talented but not to me. The media always says "all the people," but how does that include me who thinks the opposite. The media should say the "majority" of the people. As for Jackson we don't know what kind of life that turned it into turmoil. It's like don't judge a man until you have walked in his shoes. I'm sure with the entertainers and their busy schedules that some of them turn to drugs. But then again they have a choose of putting their foot down and saying hey I need a breather I know of someone who did this, and decided it was too hectic of life to lead and got out of the business. Granted Papa Joe pushed Michael to the edge and pushed him to a superstar, but was it all worth it in the end? Yes it is a tragedy that Michael ended up this way, but we don't all feel the same way. So next time leave me out media.
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- No more little boys for MJ to molest.If there is a judgment day, he is facing his now.
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