>I'll just be happy when the media/public frenzy is over and I can just remember him as a good looking black man who had a lovely voice.

Did it ever actually become a black man?

I thought it mutated into a quasi-white thing before that.

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>>The Chinese have rioting in the streets. Iran is having government trouble while it refines uranium for a bomb. Pakistan is fighting the Taliban. The monsoons are hitting India. There is fighting in Afghanistan. The world is over populated and the symtoms are getting worse and what is on every news channel in Canada and the USA? An unrelenting helicopter cam shot of Michael Jackson's hurse driving on an LA freeway to an over crowded ceremony of people who are more interested in saying they were there than actually caring about his passing.