Volume II No. 14
 11-23-03
 Looking Backward At The King Of Pop: Michael Jackson
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2003

 It is only with the greatest since of sadness and extreme disappointment
 that we must once again broach the tiresome subject of Michael Jackson 
 and his seemingly never-ending personal/legal troubles. But because 
 of the severity of the charges this time around, and in light of Michael's 
 continuing worldwide celebrity status, his current situation does indeed 
 merit discussion.

 Let us be clear on one point, as we begin. Michael's career is toast. 

 Fini. 

 It matters not if the charges are fraudulent, or mostly a desperate
 and personal attempt by a district attorney to "get the one" that escaped
 judgement the first time around. And certainly the charges if proven
 true, will mean that Mr. Jackson is likely to be sentenced to many, 
 many, years behind bars.

 We will not publish the graphic details of the charges that Mr. Jackson
 faces this time around, neither will we publish the details of the alleged
 acts that caused a settlement back in 1993, and were the basis for his
 first encounter with the criminal justice system. But, let us note that
 any sexual acts with an underage person { by their very nature } are 
 vile, sickening, and disgusting, { not to mention criminal } whether 
 the underage person is of the same gender or of the opposite sex. So 
 the behavior that Michael Jackson is alleged to have been involved in
 with an underage boy is extremely disturbing to contemplate.

 Is Michael truly gay? How many famous people in the entertainment 
 industry, the arts, hollywood, sports, academia, politics, or for that 
 matter, just plain everyday life have been gay. There are homosexual 
 people in the world. 

 It is a fact of life.

 But is Michael's alleged sexual orientation the only point at which any 
 discussion about the man can begin - or end?

 It is one thing to have a sexual orientation the world disapproves of.
 But it is quite another to be so emotionally ill an individual that you
 make yourself over into some androgynous human entity that is also
 racially ambiguous, and ambiguous as to chronological age. Michael 
 in truth looks like some fragile, pale-faced, Victorian doll. 

 Surely this is not the person he imagines himself to be? A helpless
 marionette on a string, at the mercy of his own cursed musical talent.

 What happened to the Michael we used to know 30 years ago? How
 did he get to the awful place that he finds himself now? Was he literally
 the goose that layed the golden egg. It is not a stretch to imagine the
 "Jackson Five" as merely, "Michael Jackson and Company." Or "Michael 
 Jackson and Those Four Other Guys." -- He was that talented. And
 clearly the focal point of the "Jackson Five" during those trailblazing 
 early years.

 But, was he so valuable a commercial commodity that his increasingly
 "odd behavior" as a teenager was trivialized or ignored by both family 
 and friends. Or was the only "real" Michael the one up on the stage? 
 Mr.Wonderful with the eager, exuberant voice, and the fancy footwork, 
 that drove the audiences wild!

 In the meantime, is it to much to imagine that perhaps Michael - the 
 individual - never had his emotional needs met.

 It is only speculation, and of course, the public can never really know
 what happens within a family, or between intimates who may or may not
 be related by blood. But did there never come a point to those closest
 to Michael Jackson that "he" as an individual should come first? Not his 
 musical career. Not the potential bank he could earn for Motown or any 
 other record company. Was there never a time for an intervention of some
 kind? If Michael had been encouraged to walk away from the industry for 
 five or ten years so that he could have discovered the beautiful person 
 trapped inside. Would that have been such a horrible thing?

 These are the serious questions that deserves answers if the truth is
 ever to be known, as to how such an enormously talented individual 
 could lose his soul so completely, and perhaps irrevocably. For what 
 use is all the riches in the world, if you are so emotionally damaged,
 that you can't enjoy them?

 So now we must wait, as undoubtedly the rest of the world will wait. 
 The criminal justice justice system often moves at a glacial pace. Especially
 when the case involves a big name. Will the molestation charges hold? 
 Can there be a possible settlement? Or will Michael, in the end, be adjudged 
 guilty, and led off to jail in handcuffs where a hell more horrible than he,
 or any of us could hardly imagine. His new reality may become a universe 
 of the macabre. A dark place full of never-ending terror and fear.

 No one wants that fate for Michael Jackson. But if he is in truth a man
 who is a danger to childen. Then the harsh years ahead will be the result 
 of his own actions. -- Yet even the most disinterested and impartial of
 persons on this matter, will be left to wonder that the many greedy souls 
 who lined their pockets with the gold that Michael earned for them. And 
 who so willingly ignored the warning signs of his emotional unraveling 
 that were there for all to see. What a pity it will be that these individuals, 
 won't be residing in that excruciating hell right along beside him.
 

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