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Wed Jul-08-09 11:35 PM
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So this is how they "honor" Michael Jackson? |
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They unveil his children and thrust them into the public eye at their most vulnerable moment.
Michael is rolling over in his coffin no doubt.
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Wed Jul-08-09 11:37 PM
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1. How much thrusting can someone take? |
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Mon Aug-31-09 01:21 PM
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16. It would appear that they are having a pretty good |
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Wed Jul-08-09 11:47 PM
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2. May you have no accomplishments and a peaceful death. |
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Wed Jul-08-09 11:49 PM
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3. With your family staying away from any events about you. |
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Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 11:50 PM by tabatha
(I was just adding to your comment, not replying to it.)
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Thu Jul-09-09 07:04 AM
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6. My OP was not about how I felt or "prefer" |
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How that conclusion was drawn is strange to me. I was posting from how I thought Michael might have viewed all this.
His attempts to "shield" his kids from the media, by covering their faces, is well known. It just seems to me that if the family cared so much about Michael, knowing how strong he felt about keeping them anonymous, they would not have unveiled them at his passing.
I don't give a crap about the whole spectacle to tell you the truth. Personally, I think he was a tortured soul for whatever reasons.
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Thu Jul-09-09 12:56 AM
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4. Many people, including me, thought it was strange... |
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Edited on Thu Jul-09-09 12:57 AM by CoffeeCat
...that Michael Jackson made his children wear masks, veils and other disguises.
I just chalked it up to more of Michael's strange behavior.
I heard an interview, the other day, with one of Michael's close friends (I can't remember who). This person said that wherever Michael and the kids went--they were mobbed by people and photographers, and that it was chaotic and hard for the kids. Knowing what he went through as a child, Michael was determined to allow his children SOME normalcy at times.
So, he covered their faces, so they would not be recognizable. So, close friends of Michael's or people in his security detail could take the children out...to a bookstore or to a park---and no one would recognize those kids when they were without their father. So, they could swing in the park or browse through kids' books at Barnes and Noble and be just like normal kids.
The friend of Michael Jackson said that Jackson felt like he never had a moment's peace--and that he never got to be a child and just play or hang out without a mob chasing him. He wanted to make sure that his children could have some peace and freedom.
I thought that was very sensitive, giving--and pretty darn clever of Jackson.
...and I felt like a myopic jerk for being so judgemental.
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Thu Jul-09-09 05:03 AM
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5. For all my skepticism about MJ |
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the fact that he shielded his kids from the media was not something I faulted him for. I thought it was a smart move.
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Thu Jul-09-09 06:54 PM
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8. But if he'd let the kids to to places with their Nanny... |
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... instead of with him, no one would have known who the kids were in the first place.
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Sat Aug-22-09 09:42 PM
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12. I think he did let the kids go places with other people |
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He just disguised them when they were with him, therefore enabling them to go freely with others.
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Thu Jul-09-09 06:53 PM
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7. I think the family is trying to give the kids some "normalcy". |
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Michael should never have had them hiding their faces in the first place. That was weird.
The way they were presented at the funeral was perfect IMO.
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Thu Jul-09-09 07:38 PM
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9. I just have to point out that... |
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...maybe the Jackson family--aren't too wise about what is "normal" and what isn't.
That's kind of a scary thought to me...that Joe Jackson would be the arbiter of what is good for children.
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Thu Jul-09-09 08:29 PM
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10. Always out marketing. |
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Mon Aug-31-09 08:25 AM
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15. Wearing masks isn't "normal". |
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Sat Jan-02-10 01:10 AM
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33. the jacksons lives were not normal. |
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it was explained above why he had the kids wear masks when they were with him - it was so that when they were out without him they could go without masks and be normal because no one really knew what they looked like - because of the masks.
This was a great and wonderful thing Michael did for his kids, why can't it be viewed that way instead of just shrugging and thinking everything MJ does is freakish. He was a very sinsitive man and I can't imagine the hurt he felt everyday becaue of careless and mean and thoughtless people and what they did to him.
May he rest in peace, somewhere, finally, becaue this earth must have been fucking hell for him.
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Mon Aug-31-09 08:24 AM
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14. They have to learn to live the world normally sometime. |
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Jackson raised them abnormally with all the veils and masks. Now they can come into the light.
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Mon Aug-31-09 03:09 PM
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17. You make it sound like they wore the masks 24/7. They didn't. |
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They only wore them when they were out in public with him so that the paparazzi wouldn't recognize them when they did go out with the nanny. It appears he had the right idea because whenever one of those kids step foot out of their house, someone is around to take a photo.
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Mon Aug-31-09 09:35 PM
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18. It still isn't a normal way to raise kids. |
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Tue Sep-01-09 12:24 AM
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19. Blame the paparazzi. nt |
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Tue Sep-01-09 04:37 PM
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20. Plenty of famous people have children. They don't ALL |
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go out with veils or masks on their faces. Sorry.
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Tue Sep-01-09 09:44 PM
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21. Those plenty of famous people are not Michael Effing Jackson either! |
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Wed Sep-02-09 06:29 AM
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22. So what? That doesn't give him the right to |
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cause psychological damage to his kids.
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Wed Sep-02-09 01:37 PM
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23. He had every right to do whatever he wanted to do, they were his kids |
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And that psychological damage is your opinion. Continue on reading the tabloids.
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Thu Sep-03-09 04:13 PM
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24. And you continue to avoid the obvious. |
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Fri Sep-04-09 09:04 AM
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25. LOL There are kids that were raised in suburban homes |
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by parents who did not put veils over their faces but STILL had psychological damage. That argument is so irrelevent. Michael Jackson was one of the most photographed individuals in the world - he couldn't go out to even get ice cream from the corner store if he wanted to. So maybe he wanted to protect his children's identities so that they could be unrecognized in their teen and adult years. They didn't ask to be famous, their father was. And I don't blame him for that. Judge not when you don't stand in their shoes. Did you ever think about that?
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Wed Dec-16-09 04:59 AM
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Michael Jackson is really a great man indeed.
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Wed Dec-16-09 12:22 PM
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27. Actually, he's a dead man. |
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Wed Dec-16-09 12:45 PM
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28. Michael Jackson will never be dead to millions across the globe |
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His legacy will live on forever.
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Wed Dec-16-09 01:28 PM
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29. His legacy, yes. But the man, not so much. (n/t) |
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Sat Dec-19-09 08:58 AM
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31. Joe Jackson wants to get em on the road... |
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Sat Dec-19-09 11:31 AM
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Standing there being the progeny of a guy who was a great entertainer once-upon-a-time?
Wow! Where do I line up for tickets!!!1!!1!!!!1111
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