Not only was he in the public eye from the age of a first or second grader, he had a father (and band manager) who was physically and emotionally abusive. He left his father out of his will. I'm not saying this gives him a blanket excuse but it may explain his apparent desire to live in fantasy worlds. I remember one of the witnesses at his pedophilia trial (the one where he was acquitted) saying the sleepovers were not sexual depravity but arrested development.

IAC I agree with you about holding onto the memories we choose to.

>Yes, he was a good looking young black man once. That his adult life went WAY off the tracks is true - perhaps that's part and parcel with that much attention since the age of 6 or 7, but once there was a young black man named Michael Jackson who had a very good voice and quite a bit of talent. And that's how I care to remember him. Much like not wanting to remember Elvis as a bloated drug addict who died in his bathroom.
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>>>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.
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>>Did it ever actually become a black man?
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>>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.