Do you believe Micheal Jackson mollested childreen?

Technically, he was acquitted; however, as a professional in the criminal justice system for many years, Michael Jackson, in every conceivable way represented the profile of a pedaphile. My department processed hundreds of cases through our sex offender unit. "Regular" people are rarely accused or charged in child molestation cases. It happens, but in my career experience, it is extremely rare. Let's put it this way, M.J. was never convicted, but his behavior with children was very strange and inappropriate. Apparently, there is no hard evidence that he actually molested children, but there are reasons for suspicion.

Celebrity status in Pop Culture is akin to divinity. At death, the most bizarre people are transformed into universal hero's. How a person who did every thing he could to change his ethnic identity can be cast as a civil rights icon is beyond me. The whole response to the death of M.J. is surreal. Jesus died in obscurity.

 

Maybe he was the rare exception, we'll never really know.

He had vitiligo he didn't go out of his way to change his ethnicity.

 

Even though he had vitligo and most people didn't know about it...I still find it hypocritical and kind of funny that white people often want to change their skin color darker (via tanning) and no one ever claims or criticizes whites for trying to change their ethnicity.

 

Well Jesus didn't sell 750 million records.

 

For whatever reason I think most people prefer an intermediate light brown color, not me personally, it just seems most people would rather than skin tone.

In Michael's case I think he preferred to be pale all over than have everyone see his pigment-less blotched skin. It seems odd to most but I guess I could see how he could be self conscious as a performer with such a visible disease. I'm reaching but this could also be one of the reasons he didn't take part in the conception of his own children. He might have not have wanted them to live with vitilgo (and Lupus?).

 

I'm tired of all the MJ coverage too...but I can't agree with you that his music wasn't "that influential". If it weren't you wouldn't have so many fans still watching all this intense coverage (the only reasons the stations are keeping up, because the ratings are still there). MJ's music reached a lot of folks. If anything, his death has reminded me of how many great songs he had, because I heard them all again. Nothing but hit's from the J5 days up until Thriller. 3/4th of bad were hits as well...that most will bump when the song is played. And I know this because this topic came up over the weekend, and we had a bet to see how many crap songs the Bad album had (we counted 2). Not so much after that though....

Edit: I also wanted to note that Marvin Gaye is my favorite artist of all time, and Stevie is at the top of the list. While I love their music as well, there are definitely at least 5 MJ songs that I would be just as happy to listen to over any of their songs. Actually, it would be more of a tie IMO. Off the top of my head:


Got to Be There

Who's Loving You

Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (especially if I'm in a club..but in a car is fine too)

She’s out of My Life

Smooth Criminal (not the song, but still the best video I have ever seen)

I could put the J5 anthology on and never take it out, or rarely press skip. I can listen to the Off the Wall album all the way through...anytime, anyplace (and used to all the time...even recently). Granted, I can do the same with some of those other artists....but i surely can't say they are above MJ. I remember when Ray Charles died and it was nothing like this. I don't believe it was for Marvin Gaye either...

 

For what it's worth, this has never been proven, only claimed. He also had to go out of his way to bleach himself as vitiligo only creates splotches. He also made sure his children were all white.

 

And M.J. hasn't risen from the dead and changed history; however, based on the news coverage one could suspect that as a possibility.

 

Again, the media wouldn't still be blasting MJ if folks weren't watching it. I'm tired of it too so ust do what I did...watch something else.

 

How do you want it to be proven? I know somebody with vitiligo and they would gladly undergo treatment to make the blotches fade, if they could afford it. I'm sure Michael, being in the spotlight like he was, felt similar.

 

Give it up already man. The guy wanted to be white.

 

he sold a few books, though.

 

I love all the negativity at the MJ coverage. I hope most Americans felt the same way w/ all the news coverage when Princess Di passed on.
Imagine if she'd passed away this year, with the growth of the internet, TMZ etc. I wonder if she'd get the same treatment.

 

THANK YOU! I've been wondering about this also.
I love how in Texas for example, I hear disparaging words about hispanic people daily from co-workers and others but once work is out, guess who's heading to the tanning bed to get that skin a lil bit darker looking, somewhat like the folks they just criticized.

 

he had multiple nose jobs and straight hair. WTF WOULD you call "out of his way?

 

Look, I really couldn't care less about what race he wanted to be, but there is a ton of evidence (circumstantial) to suggest he wanted to be white. His kids are all white, he married two white women, he bleached himself entirely white, he worked to make his hair straight like a white person, he did a ton of plastic surgery on his face to change his appearance, he "allegedly" had pictures of white people all over Neverland, and people who have worked for him have said he always talked about wanting to be white.

 

Don't you know that books are the work of the devil.

 

From a studio geeks forum, Gearslutz, a producer who worked w/ MJ recounts:

I included the more interesting parts, click the link for the full post. There's another producer who posted in that thread w/ his own recollection.

 

Lil Kim has had multiple nose jobs and Snoop Dogg has straightened his hair, I guess they're trying to change their ethnicity as well. What about all those models and actors that do the same thing?

 

Maybe, maybe no. We'll never know. I'll leave it at that.