When I heard the news I was at work, read via twitter he was rushed to the hospital...and then awhile later read that he had passed. I got in my car to go home and turned on a CD, didn't want to hear the radio tributes of all his songs...didn't turn on my tv...kinda stayed of twitter and FB because I just didn't want to hear it. People were taking it a bit too serious for my taste...crying and boo-hooing over someone they never met when half those people wouldn't do all of that for someone in their family...one of their friends.
Now, not a whole week before I was thinking while riding in my car that I feel like alot of TV shows (first 48, CSI, Crime 360, etc) have de-synthesized me to death in general. But today...it really hit me that he had died. My father turned the tv to TV one and the Jackson's movie was playing and I just felt myself feeling sad. Not distraught mind you, but sad nonetheless. I felt for his family...felt for his children...felt for his friends.
June 25, 2009 was the day music wept.
And then I looked at the people who made jokes about him not HOURS after his death. No matter what you felt about the man, no matter what opinion of him and his life. There should always be respect for the dead. PERIOD. I personally never believed he molested any children, I do think that he (as I already stated) was a tormented soul...I believe that the fact that he didn't really have a childhood, I believe that he did things that a normal adult would know were inappropriate (like sleeping in the bed with children, etc). But I never thought he had it in him (personally) to do something like he was accused of to children...if he did...shame on him...if he didn't...shame on us as people for jumping to conclusions based on the accusations of opportunistic parents. But back to my original thought...this man died, he was someone's son...brother...cousin...uncle...father...and friend, to mock his death to me seemed crass and uncalled for. I'm not judging those who did, everyone deals with things in their own way. Hell in hindsight, I may have slid in an inappropriate one, and for that, I was wrong. But I saw people who REPEATEDLY made jokes...made fun...and just did...not...care.
And really, that's all I have to say.
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I saw thing same things and that hurts my soul. I'd hate to be a family member or a even a close friend and see some of the things people had to say in his passing. It just wasn't right. I think people are just way too insensitive. and I like you, never thought he touched any children in a way that was inappropriate. I never thought that of him. And I never judged him because of it. But the world did. And he suffered because of it. All he had was his music and his fans and a lot of them turned their backs on him because of what they assumed he did. Yes he was a unique individual, to say the least. But he was still human. And he should even in his death be treated as such.
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