The Reverend Al Sharpton told the Michael Jackson kids at their daddy's funeral that there, "Wasn't nothing strange about your daddy, what was strange was what he had to deal with."
I know of at least one daughter and one son of mine who will disagree with me, but I've got to say, Michael was as strange as a human being can be.
If you have to say at a person's funeral that he wasn't strange...he was strange!!!
And, what about his tabloid moniker, "Wacko Jacko?" That didn't come from nothing.
It seems that he hated himself.
- He hated his blackness so much that he made himself white. He hated blackness so much that he procured white eggs and white sperm in order to give himself white children. (Or, maybe they also had vitiligo...Yeah, right!)
- He hated his beautiful, wide, Negroid nose, a defining look for a proud black man or woman, so he had it made skinny.
- While most fans, including myself, thought he was a darling child, a handsome youth and great-looking young man, Michael hated himself so much that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars making himself look like Diana Ross. He then went past that look to some kind of comic book looking character.
I don't know what to think about his sexuality. He was certainly accused of being a pedophile. Although he was found not guilty in at least one court action, he paid off others to make the accusations go away. Frankly, I don't think he was a pedophile. That might surprise you, but I think he was, among other things (which I'll mention later), just a very, very eccentric man. I think he felt more comfortable with kids. And who, as kids, did we feel comfortable hanging out with? Other kids. I think he just like being a kid and hanging out with kids.
Regardless, he was either absolutely naive, thinking it was cute and fun and okay for a grown man to sleep in the same bed with boys, or he was a pervert and a pedophile.
I'm not a doctor or a psychologist or psychiatrist, but I think Michael Jackson was mentally ill and none of the people who professed to love him was bold or brave enough to take him by the hand and try to help him.
Michael Jackson was very talented and very, very strange.
3 comments:
No question he was strange, mentally ill, drugged up, and self-loathing. I don't think he hated his blackness as much as he hated himself--probably a case of body dysmorphic disorder or whatever... I'm not a psychologist. But we all know Sharpton is an idiot--there was plenty wrong with Michael Jackson.
I think a lot of it might be attributed to abuse suffered as a child, and possibly the most extreme cruelty the media has ever dealt out. Sarah Palin--a solid, mentally sound, healthy, happy person--caved under 10 months of the media's games. Jackson had been dealing with it for 30+ years.
I'm not defending him, I just don't judge him. Everyone who knew him said he was the kindest person they ever met.
And of course, I love his music.
I don't think I ever thought the term "strange" in association with him. I think he passed strange about two decades ago. I believe he was truly a freak. I'm sorry for his children, because losing the only person they really trusted could possibly be calamitous--even if that person was very freaky. I wonder how weird they would have been if he had lived to raise them to adulthood? Maybe this will work out all around.
Ok, he was strange. But in a non threatening, sad way (at least to me). I don't have a real explanation for the tender spot I have for him in my heart... I just loved him.
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