Blacks Against Hypocrisy--Michael Jackson

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I was stunned when I discovered that Time Magazine didn't do a cover story on Michael Jackson. Instead they had a cover of a giant birthday cake discussing the state of married life.  Then next week they had a cover story about Sarah Palin preening about on a boat dock in Alaska.  

Newsweek did sorta.  Apparently they had an alternate cover story with a picture of a very young Michael Jackson.  Both have come out with commendable commemorative editions however. 

The best coverage that I read was in something called Hip Hop Magazine.  They seemed to best capture the unprecedented impact Michael Jackson had on global culture.  There were a dozen or so other commemorative cover story special editions including that published by Rolling Stone.

The mainstream media continued it's ambivalent coverage.  They were stuck on the controversies of his life, the disposition of his children, and the mystery surrounding his death. The question always arises in my mind that if a story has nothing new to offer ... then why publish it.  

What do you think?

Memorial Fit for a King

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Wow, What comment! We are going to have to put links to your words that
will define them for us or we'll have to keep a dictionary around all the time!

What a Memorial for Micheal Jackson, it was fit for a KING.....The greatest entertainer
of all time!!......what a great thing to say about him!.........What an accomplishment he has made!....As I think about what my mother's epitaph reads.......Gone by not forgotten!... I think of Micheal........He will be remembered for all time! We loved him but .....He loved us more!

Mrs. Tee

Blacks Against Hypocrisy--Michael Jackson

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I am watching the Michael Jackson memorial on CNN. It is a global event. Every angle covered.
I'm searching my own memories, my visual cues, my emotional touchstones.
He is still alive, still the engenue genius.

He is also the metaphor for ambivalent blackness in intransigent white America.
He is Batman in reverse. Black on the inside, White on the outside.
It didn't matter for many ... one way or the other ... it didn't matter.


But in the final analysis ... the Music is What it Is. It conveyed the lyrics of his life.
It buoyed the lachrymose of life. He escaped my own existence ... what I mean
He lifted me from the moment. ...to a place he prepared ... from music he made ...
from a muse he didn't know. Maybe the music was Michael and Michael was music.