Leave Michael Jackson in the ground, please ...

...PLEASE??!! It's been one year since he died, ok. Tribute, blah blah blah. Tremendous talent, brilliant, musical genius, yada, yada, yada. I agree. But that isn't the whole story, is it?

Accusations of child molestation aside, MJ died primarily because he was ADDICTED TO DRUGS. The person that people are weeping over, and screaming over (because of the dance moves, not because he was a tragic caricature of a human being) was a broken, insecure, emotionally and physically unhealthy 50-year-old man who craved approval to the point where he put his health, his fortune, his career and his children at risk. He is not a figure to be held up as anyone's role model. Ever.

MJ was as good as he was on stage because he had no childhood; his father broke all the child labour laws written by making his underage son WORK for a living to support the family. And MJ spent the rest of his adult life trying to make up for that in the most unhealthy ways imaginable. Is that worth the fame and glory? Is that worth the billions of albums sold?

Ironically, the dude revived his career by dying, but he's not here to hear all the wonderful things people are (now) saying about him. He was here to be the butt of jokes worldwide tho; MJ and OJ are standard in any black comedian's repertoire. He was here for the speculation; he was here to hear people saying his career would never be the same again after the trials. He was here to hear people laugh at his bleached skin, without once considering the brokenness and the abuse that drove him (AND THE REST OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS) to alter their appearance to suit someone's view of how they should look.

I am sick of the hypocrisy. Hold these black men up to a standard. Make them accountable for their actions. People make mistakes; mistakes have consequences. Tell your children that MJ was talented, and if he had gotten help for his issues and avoided drugs, we would all still be enjoying his music.

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