How sad that even in death Michael Jackson is still a circus act. I turned on the television to see a black hearse moving slowly down a Los Angeles freeway and it reminded me of another circus when cameras followed a white Bronco occupied by O.J. Simpson.
Although I was never a big fan of Michael Jackson's, I do acknowledge that he was a musical genius with a talent he shared with the world. His life was a tragic story that ended much like that of Elvis Presley's.
Even sadder, though, is the fact that his family has chosen to create a fiasco that gives a venue of publicity-grabbing by those kinds of people who always manage to "show up" at times like this (i.e. Jesse Jackson (no relation) and Al Sharpton).
Unfortunately, we will be bombarded for weeks or months to come with "news stories" concerning the lawsuits concerning his estate and, worst of all, his children. Those three children are the ultimate victims. They have actually been "victims" since the day they were "conceived" in an attempt to give his life a meaning he could never seem to find.
I don't know what was in his heart. Unlike Elvis, Michael Jackson never openly expressed finding any peace with God, but he could simply have kept that to himself. I hope and pray that he DID find that at some point in his tragic life. Otherwise, there is NO happy ending here even in death.
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