Someone Else Who Got Michael.....

Jackson – Long Live The King  -  Posted by Martin Scorpeze on June 27th, 2009



Saturday June 27th, 2009

It has taken me this long to get my thoughts together.



I’m not trying to make this some definitive tribute statement, either…I’m just speaking from my soul…



Another Black man is gone before he could grow old…that in itself is a tragedy…but what makes it significant is that that Black man is the greatest entertainer ever…



Yes, I said it.



Michael Jackson is the greatest entertainer ever.



I definitely do not wish to shortchange James Brown. James Brown is the blueprint of modern Black music. Michael knew this and studied JB’s every move. He loved James—as a mentor, as an entertainer, and as a person. To me it speaks volumes that Michael came out of his exile to honor James when he passed….



Michael put his own issues aside and came out for JB when so may of JB’s disciples and progeny were shamefully absent….



James Brown lived a long life, and good sense would tell you that JB was older than what he said he was….so when JB passed, it was major but not unexpected…



I haven’t told anyone this until the last couple of days…Michael Jackson introduced me to music…It was because of him that I made up my mind early in my childhood that I would make music…



I’ve heard quite a few other people, famous and not, say the same thing over the past few days…



Over the years, I have defended him against unfair and false criticism…the thing that angers me the most about his life is the willful ignorance of those who hate him…



I’ve never seen anyone be hated with the fervor I’ve seen some people hate Michael Jackson…



I’ve heard people call for his death…and now that it has happened, I’ve heard people say that they are glad…



and they base these feelings on what exactly?



Because he was eccentric? I bet you there are weirder people in your family…



this didn’t start with the allegations, this hatred of Michael Jackson has been building steadily since 1987….I’ve watched it with my own eyes…



I watched the press start going out of their way to make it seem like everything he did was cat shit crazy…



“Bizarre singer Michael Jackson flew a kite in his yard today…the famously weird singer for some odd reason flew a kite for about an hour this afternoon ….some found the scene disturbing…”



Silly shit like that…



A real life example is when Michael bounced his baby on his knee to calm his crying…Martin Bashir acted like he was choking the baby…



Who DOESN’T bounce crying babies on their knee?



I think the thing I found most disturbing about the venom directed at Michael Jackson was the Black people who turned their backs on him…



Michael Jackson represented for Black people all of his life.



His career is based on his Blackness…



He paid for David Ruffin’s funeral.



John H. Johnson (publisher of Ebony and Jet) was one of his advisers.



He owned Sly Stone’s publishing and made sure Sly was taken care of.



His heroes were James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and Sammy Davis., Jr…he spent his 50th birthday listening to James Brown…



There are rumors that after acquiring the publishing rights to Little Richard’s songs, Mike gave them back to Richard…not sold, gave…



Michael would bring in busloads of poor children South Central, Watts and other black populated areas of LA county to Neverland to have their run of the place…



Saul Williams said that his education was funded by part of a 25 million dollar donation by Michael to the United Negro College fund.



Michael was friends with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.



He loved to vacation in Africa and tried to spread the word about the historic and physical beauty of the continent…he stated that he believes all things come from Africa….



He made a song called THEY Don’t Care About US (feel free to read between the lines)



He loved the documentary Unforgivable Blackness about the story of Jack Johnson.



He made street dancing popular long before the breakdancing phenomenon of the mid-80s….in the mid-70’s, Mike was popping and locking. He always gave credit to the dancers in the streets, many times hiring them for his videos.



He made a video with real gang members, long before gang-banging became chic.



He made a video showing Black people as royalty in Africa.



His vocal style with all the ad-libs, scatting, and slang is undeniably Black.



Michael NEVER looked down on hip-hop…he reached out to, collaborated with, and mentored many young hip-hop artists.



He called Tommy Mottola a devil, loved to eat KFC (with the skin removed) and drink Crown Royal, his first date with Lisa Marie was to go see the Temptations and The Fifth Dimension in Las Vegas.



She asked him, “Where will we stay?



“In my room.”, he replied.



“Will we sleep in the same bed?” she continued



“Hell yeah, girl!…” was his answer…



was he not Black?



He had a perm and married a white girl…how Black is that?…LOL



I kid….but I never felt that Michael did not want to be Black.



I don’t want to focus on the controversy because that cheapens his legacy…as a man, he had faults…but who among us does not?



The plain and simple truth is the reason why Michael touched so many of us in such a personal way is because what his mission was….



he summed up it here, very succinctly:   “Love is my message….”  - Michael Jackson, 1980


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