Jackson Showdown in Court Today

46. It might have been better for the children to just leave them in the custody of Willy Wonka's SQUIRRELS....that way, when the BAD NUTS get near them, the critters will make sure they are CRACKED & TRASHED!!! (Michael seemed to love stuff like that...who knows, he may have considered it...)

I never was a rabid Jackson fan, but always appreciated his music and dancing talent. In the last ten years or so, I thought him a bit strange...but I've tried to separate the wheat from the media chaff in the last 10 days or so. I've come to the conclusion that he hid alot from the media just to survive, and those horrors like Diane Diamond never gave him a break and what they didn't know they made up....to his Detriment. Please, if there is a God, let this man have some Peace and some wicked jamming with all the musicians that went before him...and may the Angels be great back-up Dancers!

Posted at 2:35PM on Jul 13th 2009 by Good Grief!

47. #15-----In a way you are right. Every black person in Michael's childhood betrayed him until he had no where to turn and no one to turn to that would/could rescue him. As he grew up nearly every black person he came into contact with wanted a piece of him. Many like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton seem to believe his status will rub off on them. They are Joe Jackson's cronies. Nearly every black music star was out to use him, as his friend Quincy Jones, on televison talking so sad about his demise one day and the next day trashing his life and legacy. All I know is the Jackson family, mother, father, all the brothers and sisters have received benefit from Michael's status in the music industry. If he hadn't made it in music he would have been kicked to the curb by his family long, long ago. His one true friend was Elizabeth Taylor. She, too, was a child star who was used and abused by her family and others and had no childhood at all. Katharine Jackson seems to love Michael, and he did her, albeit he still had some resentment that she didn't stop some of the physical abuse. At sometime when the family were still living in Indiana, Katharine must have weighed the costs to the family if Michael wasn't forced to do certain things and stifled all parental responsibility and objections to the life he was being forced to live so they could "have things." Love is an action word. It would appear the only real unconditional love Michael ever received was from Elizabeth Taylor, and then, too, from Debbie Rowe. For someone to say they love another so much they will have their children and then let that person, who has relationship trust issues, keep the children to raise by themselves because that person has never had anyone or anything that truly belonged just to them, that is love. It is sad Michael once knew what Debbie did for him, but later let the family and others convince him differently. All parasites eventually kill their host if they are not gotten rid of, and Michael could never rid himself of not only the family of users but nearly all he came into contact with throughout his professional life. Michael's life was sacrificed for the gain of others, but it shouldn't have been. Parents aren't supposed to so devalue and abuse their child until they try to erradicate all identity with the parents racial makeup from themselves. Nearly all the top black entertainers have varying degrees of identity misperceptions. Most of the top entertainers have lighter skin, which gets lighter all the time, and hair , be it wigs or natural, that is uncommon to black people. Jay-Z is one of the few that seems comfortable with his own skin color. Maybe it is in part a societial factor, however, in Michael Jackson's case it was wanting to never be identified with the tormentors of his sad childhood.

Posted at 5:30PM on Jul 6th 2009 by haven here

48. #47 AND #15
I AGREE. THEY ALL WANTED A PIECE OF HIM. LEECHES. HE KNEW WHO HE COULD TRUST. MICHAEL WAS COLORBLIND AND WORKED WITH THE BEST AND CHOSE THE BEST

IF A BLACK PRODUCER WAS BEST HE CHOSE THEM IF A WHITE LAWYER WAS THE BEST HE CHOSE THEM

SHARPTON AND JACKSON WERE NOT HIS ADVISORS....MAYBE HIS FATHER'S BUT NOT HIS.
LOVE YOU MJ

Posted at 7:27PM on Jul 6th 2009 by SYB

49. #47 AND #15
I AGREE. THEY ALL WANTED A PIECE OF HIM. LEECHES. HE KNEW WHO HE COULD TRUST. MICHAEL WAS COLORBLIND AND WORKED WITH THE BEST AND CHOSE THE BEST

IF A BLACK PRODUCER WAS BEST HE CHOSE THEM IF A WHITE LAWYER WAS THE BEST HE CHOSE THEM

SHARPTON AND JACKSON WERE NOT HIS ADVISORS....MAYBE HIS FATHER'S BUT NOT HIS.
LOVE YOU MJ

Posted at 7:15PM on Jul 6th 2009 by SYB

50. CORRECTION:

ACTUALLY DO NOT NOT NOT AGREE WITH #!5

RATHER I AGREE WITH #47 $37 AND #39

#15 YOUR ATTITUDE IS SO 1972 GROW UP AND JOIN THE LARGER MULTICULTURAL WORLD
MICHAEL WAS WORLDLY AND WELL TRAVELLED. WHO WOULD WANT TO HANG OUT AND DEAL WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU WITH YOUR CRAZY BAGGAGE ALL THE TIME.

PROBABLY DIDN'T WANT HIS KIDS TO BE MANIPULATED BY THAT BLACK RACE CARD AND EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL THE REST OF THERE LIVES EITHER HENCE THE SURROGACY AND SPERM DONOR. PROBABLY DIDN'T WANT TO PASS ON THE LUPUS AND VITILIGO EITHER.

MISS YOU MJ.

Posted at 7:28PM on Jul 6th 2009 by SYB

51. POWER TO THE PEOPLE I LOVE YOU
IT IS SO BEYOND RACE... WE ARE ALL THE SAME
#15 IS JUST A HATER
MJ WAS ACCEPTED AND LOVED BY ALL RACES FROM A YOUNG AGE
HE LOVED HIS AA INHERITANCE AND LEGACY...LOVED AND PAID HOMAGE TO JAMES BROWN ETC AND MANY MORE
HE JUST HAD A MORE GLOBAL LESS RESTRICTED EXPERIENCE FROM A YOUNG AGE (EXECPT THE WORK ETHIC)

STOP TRYING TO PUT THE MAN IN A FAKE BOX. HE WAS A GENIUS...WHO SPOKE THE WORLD'S LANGUAGE
..... MUSIC AND DANCING
.....WE ALL CELEBRATED WITH HIM

WE APPRECIATED HIM AND DID NOT CARE ABOUT HIS COLOR OR TRY TO IMPRISON HIM WITH STUPID UNEDUCATED EXPECTATIONS

XXX I AM HEARTBROKEN THAT SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PERSON WOULD DIE ALON/LONEY AND SCARRED

PEOPLE NEED TO WATCH UNFORGETTABLE BLACKNESS AND REALIZE HOW FAR WE'VE COME ...YES THERE WERE DEF. CONSPIRACIES ETC.. BUT THE BRILLIANT THING IS HE CAME TO KNOW HIMSELF, HIS TASTES AND HIS VALUE.

RIP RIP RIP

.....XXXOOO NOT A CRAZY FAN BUT A NEW ONE

Posted at 1:31AM on Jul 7th 2009 by JIAN

52. I think the family should get together and continue mj's concert and take the money to pay off his bills. my heart goes out to the family

Posted at 9:16AM on Jul 7th 2009 by mrsarcher

53. THE JUDGE SHOULD RESPECT MICHAEL'S WISHES IN WHO HE WANTED TO BE IN CHARGE OF ALL HIS ASSETS! THAT WAS MICHAEL'S WISH, THIS IS WHY HE MADE THIS WILL.. MICHAEL'S MOTHER SHOULD ALSO RESPECT HER SON'S WISHES, HE CHOOSE WHO HE WANTED IN CHARGE & THAT WAS THE LAYWERS & NOT KATHERINE JACKSON., SHE SHOULD BE HAPPY WITH 40%!

Posted at 8:35PM on Jul 7th 2009 by MRS. CHERYL SOTO FROM EAST CHICAGO

54. Katherine as a JW u will never get rid of that Jo character. But u are smarter than him and he is a looser.. Stay seperated, take the intiative and raise your Grandchildren.. u will be fine and so will they..

Nurse

Posted at 9:44PM on Jul 14th 2009 by Shelly

55. IF MICHEAL HAD OF WANTED HIS MONEY HUNGRY FAMILY TO BE IN CHARGE OR HAVE ACCESS TO HIS MONEY HE WOULD HAVE LEFT IT TO THEM STRAIGHT OUT. you have to remember his mom and dad filed for bankruptcy!! that shows they can't even take care of theirselves. they got enough of his money while he was alive. they need to keep theirselves up now.. they have freeloaded enough!! they only want the kids for money. those kids are white do you really think they give a damn about them. where have they been all their lives. micheal wasn't close to his family. do you actually think he let them close to his kids. but enough already. he is not somebody to praise. he was a child molester and prevert and everybody is acting like he is god. he should have died in jail locked up where he belonged. he was black, weird and had the money to pay his way out. BUT HE IS ANSWERING NOW FOR THE SHAMEFUL PERVERTED THINGS HE DID HERE ON THIS EARTH. AND YOU CAN BET IT AIN'T GOOD. MAY HE BURN IN HELL!!!!!

Posted at 11:32PM on Sep 10th 2009 by debra