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e in front of him here s a man who was the 7 th of a total of 9 kids the son of a industrial worker in gary indiana that their father joe jackson was abusive is an understatement chronicled in made for tv movies and books and anecdotes but ironically if joe jackson hadn t channeled that energy towards molding his kids into successful entertainers they could have ended up like many other black families struggling in a dying industrial city imagine janet and latoya living on public assistance or michael and marlon being stick up kids or hardened criminals even if they d beaten the odds the jacksons could have been an average family tito the bus driver jermaine the accountant rebe the lawyer there s nothing wrong with it and actually michael jackson the engineer might still be alive today but it would have been a relative travesty because the world would never have been blessed with the talents of michael and the jackson family he gave his life to music following the life of a child star is like taking a trip into a macabre fantasyland the young star ostensibly has everything that any kid could want they get access to incredible material wealth their media image grants them access to just about everything else money can t buy but for some reason most child stars grow up to be grotesque twisted caricatures of their younger selves if they don t make an outright icarian fall from the pinnacle of their careers they rarely regain the same level of success as adults maybe it s because while the rest of us can make mistakes and learn from them or not in the safety of relative obscurity child stars mistakes are scrutinized and forgiven but never forgotten or maybe it s because the public psyche keeps a fairly static impression of celebrity stars who come into show business as adults have a difficult enough time reinventing themselves for most former child stars shedding their pre pubescent image rarely works it seems a major part of their self image is sewn from their public image and when that public image is rejected they don t know how to deal with life whatever the reason hollywood has a penchant for eating its young and michael jackson was no exception but michael jackson was a little different michael jackson stayed a child star well into his 30 s the rev al sharpton was right in painting mj as an important figure in the african american civil rights struggle there were plenty of black stars before him sidney poitier diana ross and wilt chamberlain come to mind but none preceding him achieved the level of superstardom that jackson did not many if any white stars have reached the level of michael jackson superstardom for that matter elvis was elvis because there hadn t yet been a michael jackson more accurately elvis was elvis because america wasn t ready to allow their white daughters to fawn over a black man performing black music controversial hip swiveling aside elvis was an acceptable though ridiculous alternative so when michael jackson began to record and perform as an adult he had obstacles but he was well equipped to deal with them michael jackson s child like asexual non threatening veneer is what enabled him to become the man the world mourns today that veneer is what made him the world s first black superstar america wasn t threatened by michael jackson the black man because he was unlike any black man on the planet and besides the world already knew michael jackson little michael the incredibly charismatic kid who performed with his four brothers and could sing and dance his ass off the older michael was essentially little michael in an adult s body and a great jheri curl even his voice hadn t changed much his childish demeanor was not only disarming it added to his mystique for a while the freak show that was michael jackson worked for him he hung out with child stars and a chimpanzee and was generally portrayed to have better relationships with animals and mother figures than female love interests but so what great artists are forgiven for their eccentricity and it was all eclipsed by his incredible success but as his relative successes waned the freak show took center stage the plastic surgeries the skin lightening the asexual nature and eccentric and child like demeanor were all weaponized while the media prevents most child stars from moving from their childhoods jackson was attacked for trying to preserve it once the media realized that he wasn t superhuman because he wasn t able to duplicate the successes of thriller he was expected to act his age and human oh and look black again ironically the fact that he broke the color barrier making black superstardom attainable and acceptable rendered his hair perming and skin lightening moot but it s only natural that he d cling to being different it s what made him a success so he pushed even harder the more eccentric he became the more the media demonized him this was his undoing he asked to be left alone but the truth is that he really needed the media having been a public figure since he was 10 years old the media and public opinion were his barometer they defined him for at least the last 15 years of his life neither were kind the 30 something but still a child star michael jackson didn t know how to deal with life a part of his eccentricity may have been a put on but after a while it s apparent that he was in need of some counseling it very could have spared him and others the uglier side of his legacy regardless of what the coroner s report tells of his death michael jackson life was never truly his own it s truly a tragic personal story hidden behind the soundtrack of the some of the greatest music of our generation he endured cruel treatment from the two entities that created and controlled him his father and the media but the truth is it really couldn t have happened any other way michael jackson lived a tortured existence on this planet for the benefit of countless others he s entertained billions of people to the tune of over 750 million albums sold his benefit songs concerts and plethora of philanthropic work has defined how artists give back he kicked down the door for black superstars that followed him will smith oprah winfrey and michael jordan and many others owe a great deal to michael jackson barack obama to a certain extent is just as indebted michael jackson the greatest entertainer of our time a complex man died essentially a martyr on june 25 th 2009 rest in peace mike some of my favorite michael jackson songs my top 5 in bold dancing machine w jackson 5 don t stop til you get enough rock with you workin day and night off the wall i can t help it wanna be startin somethin beat it billie jean human nature p y t the lady in my life another part of me man in the mirror smooth criminal remember the time scream w janet jackson this time around w biggie you rock my world edit i finally got a chance to read what some of my favorite bloggers had to say about mj s death and i m listening to a j period mixtape thx d penn and realizing that my list is incomplete and as good as it feels to rock out with mike right now i think his passing is tougher for me to take than i expected even a couple days after the fact wanna be where you are in the closet i want you back heartbreak hotel never can say goodbye thx kiana from proper talks i m sure this list will grow as i dig some more but this is it for now posted in random this is why we re dumb june 15 2009 2 comments as industrious as the united states is as a nation we love to hit the easy button the main reason we are so industrious is because most of our efforts go towards creating easy buttons ironically we like it so cheap and easy that we now have china manufacturing our easy buttons when you think about it the easy button didn t start with 20th century inventions like the remote control microwave oven cruise control and the internets slavery was about as big an easy button you could have and while americans didn t invent it they sure had a really hard time relinquishing it but the easy button mentality doesn t end with consumer goods american media consumption reflects that when topics gets are boring too difficult to understand or too difficult to deal with we find an easy way out in the last 20 years american news media devolved from one of the most respected sources of information on the planet to a minstrel show uhh but instead of white entertainers in blackface you have attractive entertainers of every hue in cleavage and newsface a mummer s farce passing off as real news a good part of that reality has to do with americans looking for an easy way out we kinda care about what s happening in darfur but it s too sad and too intense and way too complicated and there s nothing we can do about it right so please just tell us what happening with the octo mom that s news right there cuz it s local she s in california it s easier to vent our outrage about her sanity her doctor s ethics and where our tax dollars are going than to try to follow a complex issue that s outside of our borders and doesn t directly effect us even if it means ignoring massive loss of human life to feed our appetite for what s easy the mainstream media hits their own easy button and gives us exactly what we want that way they don t need to work too hard either and don t think it s a one way relationship by controlling what we hear and see they get to set the national conversation but it s not just the news media film and television programming also have their hand in setting the national mood and moving people into action have you seen back to the future since the 80 s today the movie s propaganda seems like such a ham fisted attempt to set the nation s perception of libya nbc s la law played a part in glut of new attorneys in the late 80 s and 90 s did you know that there s currently a near crisis shortage of nurses in the us that ll only worsen as baby boomers retire don t worry though there are two new nurse dramas here to save the day showtime s nurse jackie and jada pinkett smith s new nurse drama hawthorne check your local listings it may just be a coincidence but lets just hope that nursing becomes sexy and cool before those shows are taken off the air otherwise we re fucked imagine being at a social gathering and someone walks into the room and says how crazy is it that there s an industry that makes billions of dollars from killing people around the world talk amongst yourselves and walks out that s effectively what the mainstream media does only they wouldn t talk about the weapons industry because one of the biggest profiteers from the iraq war also pays brian williams s salary so there s also plenty of agenda setting by omission speaking of omission so where were the brian williamses of the world on saturday when the people of iran realized that something wasn t right with the election results that sewed mahmoud ahmadinejad into the supreme leader of iran s puppet strings for another four years even though the president of iran has no real power it seems that a substantial part of the electorate had hope that a new president would be able to take a more pragmatic approach to governance and world facing or at least reflect an evolution in the supreme leader and his council s governance and world facing riots protests and acts of violence showed that they were more than a little displeased with the status quo of their authoritarian democracy there s a very real possibility that they ve begun a new revolution in iran and the us news media was shamefully absent in covering it i m not going to beat that dead horse too badly a lot of other bloggers who are a lot smarter than me beat me to it but i mean the shit was embarrassing before the election ahmadinijad may have inoculated himself from the us media s in depth coverage of his fuckery by saying that the western media s reporting of the results may skew perceptions so they backed off but if that s the case when are they going to learn that they don t need to take cues from anyone they were gw bush s megaphone between september 11th 2001 and somewhere around the time that the bush administration lost all credibility for their war in iraq getting suckered by a foreign leader who s widely regarded as evil makes our news media look even more buffoonish the bbc didn t fall for it their coverage was superb and twitter came through in a very big way i honestly didn t find twitter very useful until i followed and got live tweets from iranians civilians on the ground some risking life and liberty to send the world news of what was happening in their country if the folks who set our national agenda are dumb enough to fall for the bush ahmadinejad type of bullshit time and time again what does it say about us who listen to them even if it turns out that they were just lazy hit the easy button and took the weekend off election what election no one in america cares about an iranian election it only shows that as a nation we really need to get our shit together get more involved in the world and find alternatives to the agenda setting machine no ok maybe this will make you feel better posted in general humor piyush race random rant war wtf tags brian williams iran elections iran s supreme leader iranian revolution mahmoud ahmadinejad twitter the natural order of things june 13 2009 leave a comment the above photo is my own i took it while good ol nypd ran my license and registration through the system on friday it s a good thing i d taken care of this problem when i did otherwise i would have probably spent the weekend at camp central booking at first i was upset about getting the ticket because i felt it was bullshit so what if i made a right turn onto empire blvd off of franklin and it s an illegal turn i make a left turn there quite literally 4 days a week and every day i make that left turn a convoy of cars make the right turn so i never thought anything of it and because i m at that intersection almost every day the traffic signs are just a part of the scenery of course the one day i need to turn right there s a cop perched waiting for the aforementioned convoy to make that right turn i saw the cop but didn t think anything of it because i didn t know the turn was illegal and on this day that convoy was a van in front of me which didn t get pulled over and me i mentioned before that at first i was mad was in the past tense i got over it quickly because i thought about it in the grander scheme and in terms of the natural order of things it first hit me when i thought back to a couple weeks away when combat jack and i were talking about the air france flight that crashed into the pacific this seems like the perfect time to take a sidebar and apologize for not posting in a min i ve been working on moving cj s site off of blogger and onto our own hosted platform the new daily mathematics site is going to be an ambitious undertaking we ll start off small and i 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