R.I.P. Michael

Gosh, I didn't realize how much Michael Jackson had affected me during my childhood years until I was told that he died today. HIs genius will be missed. --SUGAR

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[IT'SAGIRL]

Michael, you can rest easy now you deserve it....oh and may God and some good folk watch over your beautiful children.

[BBFmail]

Just wrote to FoxNews to complain about their coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. Their main interest seems to been in proving from "anonymous sources"...that his death is connected with drugs. Try as they might....everyone interviewed who actually personally knew MJ...had said just the opposite.

[Erika Kane]

I remember when we all thought we could moonwalk. And when we owned gloves like his, in elementary school. And when we all watched Fox for the premiere of his 'Black or White' or when we watched his "comeback" duet with Janet, "Scream," the summer before senior year of high school. Ah... the memories....

[Betty]

Sugar...this is the nicest tribute for Michael that I have seen yet. Quiet and beautiful.

[BBFmail]

While FoxNews and other MSM are trashing Michael, very little is reported about the many charities he has supported all his life. Michael Jackson and Charities he has supported:

http://www.examiner.com/

This list is from Jackson Action and it is a chronology of all of his charitable contributions:

January 10, 1984: Michael visits the unit for burn victims at Brotman-Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles.

April 9, 1984: David Smithee, a 14-year-old boy who suffers from cystic fibroses is invited to Michael's home. It was David's last wish to meet Michael. He dies 7 weeks later.

April 14, 1984: Michael equips a 19-bed-unit at Mount Senai New York Medical Center. This center is part of the T.J. Martell-Foundation for leukemia and cancer research.

July 5, 1984: During the Jackson's press conference at Tavern On The Green, Michael announces that his part of the earnings from the Victory Tour will be donated to three charitable organizations: The United Negro College Fund, Camp Good Times, and the T.J. Martell-Foundation.

July 14, 1984: After the first concert of the Victory Tour, Michael meets 8 terminally ill children backstage.

December 13, 1984: Michael visits the Brotman Memorial Hospital, where he had been treated when he was burned very badly during the producing of a Pepsi commercial. He donates all the money he receives from Pepsi, $1.5 million, to the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children.

January 28, 1985: Michael and 44 other artists meet to record "We Are The World", written by Michael and Lionel Ritchie. The proceeds of this record are donated to the starving people in Africa.

1986: Michael set up the "Michael Jackson UNCF Endowed Scholarship Fund". This $1.5 million fund is aimed towards students majoring in performance art and communications, with money given each year to students attending a UNCF member college or university.

February 28, 1986: After having had a heart-transplant, 14-year-old Donna Ashlock from California gets a call from Michael Jackson. He had heard that she is a big fan of his. Michael invites her to his home as soon as she is feeling better. This visit takes place on March 8th. Donna stays for dinner and watches a movie together with Michael.

September 13, 1987: Michael supports a campaign against racism. He supports efforts of the NAACP, to fight prejudices against black artists.

October 1987: At the end of his Bad Tour, Michael donates some personal items to the UNESCO for a charitable auction. The proceeds will be for the education of children in developing countries.

February 1, 1988: The Song "Man In the Mirror" enters the charts. The proceeds from the sales of this record goes to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a camp for children who suffer from cancer.

March 1, 1988: At a press conference held by his sponsor Pepsi, Michael presents a $600,000 check to the United Negro College Fund.

April 1988: Free tickets are given away for three concerts in Atlanta, Georgia to the Make A Wish Foundation.

May 22, 1988: Michael visits children who suffer from cancer in the Bambini-Gesu Children's Hospital in Rome. He signs autographs and gives away sweets and records to the little patients. He promises a check of 100,000 pounds to the hospital.

July 16, 1988: Before a concert at Wembley Stadium Michael meets the Prince of Wales and his wife Diana. He hands over a check of 150,000 pounds for the Prince's Trust, and a check of 100,000 pounds for the children's hospital at Great Ormond Street.

July 20, 1988: Michael visits terminally ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. At a unit for less critical patients he stays a little bit longer and tells a story.

August 29, 1988: At his 30th birthday Michael performs a concert in Leeds, England for the English charity-organization "Give For Life". The goal of this organization is the immunization of children. Michael presents a check for 65,000 pounds.

December 1988: Michael visits 12-year-old David Rothenburg. His father had 5 years earlier burned him very badly in an act of revenge against his former wife.

January 1989: The proceeds of one of Michael's shows in Los Angeles are donated to Childhelp USA, the biggest charity-organization against child-abuse. In appreciation of the contributions of Michael, Childhelp of Southern California is founding the "Michael Jackson International Institute for Research On Child Abuse".

January 10, 1989: The Bad Tour comes to an end. Under-privileged children are donated tickets for each concert and Michael donates money to hospitals, orphanages and charity-organizations.

The list goes on and on!

[Ivory Bill Woodpecker]

I wasn't MJ's biggest fan, but I enjoyed many of his songs, and I hope those rumors about his criminal behavior were only rumors. I hope he has found peace.

Off-topic: Some encouraging news on the Troy Davis case. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear his appeal when it reconvenes in September. In case the Court does not overturn the conviction, this link includes a way to e-mail the office of the new DA in Savannah, who has the authority to open a new investigation.

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&aid=12361&ICID=A0906A01&tr=y&auid=5030305

[keepinitreal]

Does no one remember him touching little boys booty holes?

[Lyn]

Hi Sugar,
I actually got into an argument about Michael Jackson's death with Randi Rhodes yesterday. I called into the show to ask her to please just tone it down. Then I got kinda pissed and said "We wouldn't see this kind of disrespect if Woody Allen had passed away last Thursday." Well I must have gotten under her skin because she was STILL talkin about me today. Thank goodness I found your site. I feel a lot better. I really didn't mean to lose my temper, but like you I had no idea his death would affect me the way it did. Anyway I like your blog. Here's a link to mine http://forallweknow--politicsmediamusic.blogspot.com/

[SUGAR]

Hey Lyn,

No problem and I LOATHE Randi Rhodes. I used to listen to her and had even told my family and friends to listen to her some time ago until she started going on about how Oprah was "acting Black". That did it for me. I blasted her quite well right here at this blog. I'll add your link here as well. Gracias for stopping by.

[alicia banks]

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Dear Mr. President:

I am so very disappointed and depressed by the unprecedented trillions of dollars in debt that you have amassed in such a short time in office. I am appalled that you soon plan to bilk the poor again to pay the very same rich executives who squandered your initial billions gifted. But, I think it is my patriotic duty to do more than call you out for your horrid monetary abuses.

I feel I should assist you in balancing the budget in any way possible. So, here is my excellent idea:

Dr. Arnold Klein claims that he has a super skin lightening cream that can make people as white as Michael Jackson was when he died. Michael Jackson was visibly the evenly whitest person on earth when he expired. That powerful cream is definitely much stronger than the over the counter skin bleaching creams that people currently use daily all over the world.

White supremacy and colorism are global epidimics! Billions of global citizens of color desperately want to be white. If you could buy this cream the way you bought General Motors, I am certain that you could balance the budget instantly! If you sell this skin cream affordably, you may even be lucky enough to leave office with a HUGE surplus, as Bill Clinton did before your reign.

Please take my humble advice Mr. President. It would be mighty white of you to balance America’s budget this way. Skin bleachers all over the world would rush to help save our country’s dying economy! And, it would be a lasting tribute to the white Michael Jackson certain to elate his rainbow of worldwide fans.

OUTLOOK
http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com

[Maria]

Undisputably a genius.

Beyond that, MJ is a uniquely sensitive soul who lived from a very open & feeling heart that sensed the spectrum of every human emotion.

This evolved soul evoked rhythms to awaken our own sleeping souls @ various stages in our own life safari.

His life was a blessing to this world, regardless of who knows it..
for he walked his talk.

When someone will forgo much needed sleep while on tour, to visit as many hospitals & orphanages as he had concerts……….to share himself, his resources and his influence to bring joy and healing, you understand what really mattered to him.

Some may say that the stage was his real home, where his heart bloomed.

Yet, it was on that very stage that also held some dangerous moments for him.

Like the crashing of a prop as he performed during Earth Song
in Munich 1999, fracturing Ribs/vertebrae plus here:
youtube.com/watch?v=wKvlRSlC03I&NR=1
Yet, continued to perform although in pain & turning out the next morning & accommodating fans outside his hotel later that day.

A common Routine it seems.