Lets talk about Michael Jackson for a minute....

Because we haven't heard enough about him in the past week. I'll start off by saying that when the Thriller TAPE came out I was in Elementary school and I'm not gonna lie, I loved everything about it and I still do. I remember watching the Thriller video. It scared the holy hell out of me but I HAD to watch it everytime it came on. In all honesty, if it came on right now I would stop typing this and watch the entire thing. When she ran up to that house and all the zombies started breaking in to get her...It still creeps me out just thinking about it. My dad disagrees with me but he was the Elvis Presley of my generation. Do I think he was as important as Elvis was to the evolution of Rock N Roll? No, but I'm partial to big E. Michael changed the face of music as much as he changed his own face. He was an all around entertainer.

I had a silk scarf that had a picture of him laying down in his white pants wearing a yellow sweater. I'm sure some of you know the exact picture I'm talking about. I would take my sisters "ghettoblaster" outside by the swingset and play that tape while I was playing outside. Sometimes I would even take that silk scarf out there with me and hang it on the swingset while I played.

I remember when I saw the video for Billie Jean. I thought that sidewalk that lit up was probably the coolest thing I had ever seen up to that point of my young life. I wanted to know where in the world that sidewalk was and I wanted to go there and walk on it. Krystals mom had the Thriller album. Her mom was a babysitter and all of the kids she watched were younger than we were. When they would really get on our nerves we would put Thriller on because the song scared them. We were mean girls.

My mom also loved herself some Michael Jackson. There is no doubt in my mind that if she were still alive when he came to Ames a few years back she would have dragged my sister and myself to see him in concert. I know somewhere right now she is crying a little over his death. That doesn't say much though because she was a natural crier. She cried over everything.

Now lets get down to the real stuff. He was a great entertainer, that's all hunky doory but lets not forget that he was also "accused" of being a child molester. Although he was found innocent I will go on the record right now and say that there is not one tiny cell in my body that believes that he was innocent. If he were innocent he wouldn't have paid those families off. Now, did he think what he was doing to those kids was wrong??? Probably not. In his messed up mind, I think, he thought what he was doing to them was showing them that he loved them. I don't think he did it maliciously. Does that make him any less of a child molester? NO WAY!!! There are plenty of murderers out there that don't think what they had done was wrong but that doesn't mean they are innocent. Your warped sense of right and wrong shouldn't be enough to get you off on a child molestation charge.

That is why I'm not all torn up about his death. I was surprised by it but I am not crying about it. I don't understand how someone can do such horrible things to children but since he was the self proclaimed "King of Pop" all of a sudden its ok. It is just fine if you are a baby raper as long as you make a lot of money, sing songs and dance for us. Entertain us and we don't care what you do to our children behind closed doors. I guarentee if he was Michael Jones living next door and he was an accused but never convicted child molester nobody would be upset if he died.

I'm worried about "his" kids. I don't believe for one second that any of those kids are his biological children. I just hope that nothing happened to them while he was raising them. I'm sure he loved them very much and it was clear that he took good care of them (except when he was dangling Blanket off the side of the balcony) but again, we don't always know what happens behind closed doors. I just hope they were safe the entire time they were in his custody.

I guess that is all I have to say about Michael Jackson. I just want to remind everyone that these are just my opinions. If you read this and are pissed off about what I wrote, well, I don't really care. You don't have to bother replying and telling me how stupid I am because I don't really need your opinion. I have plenty of my own.