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A week later we still mourn Michael Jackson. The funeral is set, people have started jockeying for position to hear race hucksters, (the funeral service will turn as racial as Paul Wellstone’s service turned political) justify a mans life and death in terms of race and talent. How ironic that famous celebrities like Jamie Foxx are claiming Michael as one of “theirs” when Michael, at least according to one of his closest friends, did not wish to be a part “their” crowd. Forget that he thought sleeping with boys is completely natural, someone so talented should not be subjected to “judgment.” Dr. King, if you’re not rolling over in your grave, you are blessed with patience on the other side as you were on this side.

What was that? Oh, the kids aren’t his. Wait, they are not the mothers either? Whatever. Now we have some wild scientific project who charade as dolls to Michael, children to others, and a story worth following to the rest. Do I dare say that these “rest” are the same people who almost missed Transformers II because they did not want to miss the latest updates of Michael death on every news channel. So when I say rest, I mean the majority. This majority wants to ignore Michael the individual in favor of Michael the image. They prefer to to go to movies about wars with robots who turn into cars, that know anything about the wars going on in real life.

Thankfully, there is no need to worry, this is not a new trend. Celebrity worship has a long history in our country. When you don’t have a king or a Dictator, you are able to idolize who you wish, that usually becomes someone who does what you wish you could do. Neither is it a new trend that people like me lament those who care about Michael and that think Transformers II really was good…really. The only place I want to change course is that I don’t think it needs to change, when you try to make something better it usually ends up worse, it’s called unintended consequences. When people become what you are trying to make better, you have become as dense as those you wish to change, and that change, in your opinion is  always for the better.

So there you have it, Michael was talented. Michael paid thirty million dollars to avoid going to trial for kiddie touching, he was a drug addict on a scale that would have made Elvis look tame and composed in comparison. Michael, for all we know, may have kidnapped the children he called his own, for how can you trust anything from someone this cracked out? More Important, does it make you look at him in different terms, if he did kidnap these children would you judge him different? For the record, it was his life, I don’t care how crazy he wanted to live, or die, as long as you are not touching kids, but he probably was, so he can fuck off. Michael, it’s too bad even in death, you can’t catch a break.

Talent is ample, character is not. Here Michael’s  talent is meshed* with that of Daewon Song in 1992. Two observations, the first is that the talent of Daewon is by far more incredible than that of Michael. The second is that, while both have talent, only one has character, something Dr. King hoped would be the benchmark for “judgment” of mankind, not the color of their skin. Just because you are a character, does not mean you have character. The worst part about Michael’s death is, he was an example of how race does not matter, as he said, “it don’t matter if you’re black or white.” And unlike most race hucksters, Micheal believed it. If Dr. King is turning in his grave, he is no doubt following the lead and the moves of Michael.

*Wait for 2:45 mark of Daewon video for Michael’s talent