We were all being so careful not to be racist, until this guy screwed it all up
Posted in Rantastic on 06/29/2009 07:40 pm by Elizabeth KayleneAs sick as I am of hearing about Michael Jackson being dead and all that, some of the things that people have been saying just kill me. You’ve got the people who idolize him, even though the dude was totally messed up in the head and was a pedophile. Yes. In this day and age, we idolize pedophiles. Because I’m sorry, the man admitted himself that he slept in the same bed with little kids. And if he could admit to that, who knows what else he did. It’s my firm belief that kids don’t lie, unless they want a cookie. They don’t lie about being molested.
Anyway.
You’ve got the people who write poetry about his death, the people who forgot entirely that Farrah Fawcett died too, and the people who brought racial condescension into the conversation:
Yes. He went there. “Whites will never understand.” WHITES. Like sheep. Like white people are stupid. Like they just don’t get that the guy’s music brought together a whole mess of people and made them happy. Like Michael Jackson is just above and behind the intelligence of the average white person.
I spent two years in a school system where the darker you were, the better you were considered to be. And I hate that kind of mindset, in anyone. I cannot understand why, in 2009, people are still being treated like they are nothing because of the color of their skin, or the religion of their choice.
Maybe I’m white, but at least I know to stay away from child molesters.
PS: Ed McMahon and Billy Mays also died, people. Show some damn respect and tweet about them, too!
06/29/2009 at 9:17 pm
I don’t like that kind of mindset either. The issue of Michael is difficult because, like you, I don’t believe that children lie about abuse most of the time. And I don’t believe that several children lied. I think there was impropriety, I just don’t know how severe. That said, I blogged about his death and not Farrah Fawcett or Ed McMahon because when I was growing up, Michael Jackson was an important part of my life. He was… well, formative. And I felt like I needed to, at least, honor that to some degree. Truthfully, though, I do feel like he died a long time ago for me. Maybe early 90s? After that, I just did my best to ignore him.
06/29/2009 at 9:19 pm
(OK, I just re-read my comment and I think that first sentence was unclear. I meant I don’t like that “white people don’t understand” mindset, either. It’s bigoted and assumes a whole lot about a whole bunch of people… always a narrow minded approach, and little good comes from it).
06/30/2009 at 1:56 pm
After a very close friend of mine went to jail for something he didn’t do, I’ve looked at legalities in a whole new light. That being said I won’t bad mouth Michael Jackson for what he did or didn’t do.
I don’t understand how people can cry and literally mourn his passing when they didn’t know him at all. You’d think he was some sort of martyr the way people have been acting.
The racial comments, will always exist and I wish the world wasn’t so full of it.
06/30/2009 at 4:34 pm
I can’t get started or you’ll have to beat my off of my soapbox so I’ll just say “Bravo.”
07/05/2009 at 6:30 pm
Honestly, I don’t believe he did it. One of the boys who he was said to have molested came out recently and said his parents lied to get a settlement out of it. He was a bit loopy in the head, but I don’t think he was a molester.
06/30/2009 at 3:29 pm
I think he died for me in the early 90s too, though I was too young at the time to fully understand the complex issues he was struggling with. The whole thing is very sad, and it’s a shame that someone so talented had so many problems. But that’s stardom for ya.
06/30/2009 at 3:29 pm
I got ya. (:
06/30/2009 at 3:32 pm
I don’t understand that, either. It’s sad when someone you look up to dies, but unless you knew them personally there’s nothing to cry about. Unless you’re like three and it’s Barney that died. That’s different.
06/30/2009 at 10:54 pm
Soapbox away! You’re more than welcome.
07/08/2009 at 11:24 pm
He was loopy, all right!