R.I.P Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett

WOW, I grew up listening to the Jackson 5, watched young Michael on T.V.
He's only a few years older than me,I was really envious. Admiration, Money, Young Michael had it all. I got ganged up in school, by some kids who wanted to know if I was Michael Jackson's cousin as I claimed to be. I'm not, but I might as well have been.

I never did take much stock in the idea that Michael Jackson was a pedophile, I might think Jacks grew up to be alittle weird, but when you grow up like Micheal Jackson with all that fame and money,who knows how you might end up. The lost of Michael Jackson is like a personal loss. It the ending of an ERA.

Part of a letter I wrote to a talk show host about Jackson.

Hey Brian, You sure picked a bad topic to relate to listeners,Who are mostly white, and really couldn't give a dam about Michael Jackson. Some though like me certainly grew up with Jackson. I'm African-American , I grew up listening to Michael Jackson.

I'm old enough to remember the Micheal Jackson of the Jackson 5, a different beast than the Micheal Jackson who took his place , and went single. I remember the mocha skinned boy with the nice fro...

Listening now to some of his stuff from the Jackson 5 . It brought back memories. Memories of my own lost childhood.. I was a few years younger than Jackson but he was a phenomena. How could I compete with the Micheal Jackson of the Jackson 5? The way he sang, all the adoration he got, the money...How at 13, 14, 15, 16 was I going to compete with him.. He had more girls than James Bond, I couldn't compete with him either. But I wasn't jealous, I was a fan.

I almost got beat up in grade school by some kids , who wanted to know if I was Micheal Jackson's cousin has I claimed, the only thing I really lied about in life.

I listened to people talk on KBLAH about Jackson...saying stuff like " They something wrong for a 40 year old man to be sleeping with kids". But later I thought ..well Michael had at least 5 brothers, he must have slept together with them at one time growing up with them...so it probably wasn't an unusually experience for him.

When I think of Pedophiles, I also think of people who would try to take advantage of exploited young people in order to gain sexual favors from them...I don't think Jackson fits profile of this kind of a pedophile. Indeed its hard to see Micheal Jackson as a pedophile in any case.

Micheal claims , and laments about his lost childhood, but he stole mine and many other with the Jackson 5...I'm still stuck at that time. Trying to find the girl Micheal is singing about in "Got to be there"



I grew up when everone was admiring Farah. She a lovely woman, wasn't my type. she had this wholesomeness about her , I couldn't dig, but you admired her for that. She was an American beauty, she originally married Lee majors " The Six Million Dollar Man.