Okay-- I can't actually believe I am going to blog about this, but I am. As the whole world knows, Michael Jackson has died. I know that many people are fans, how can one not be, but still, I never never thought that some people would take it so hard. Especially here.No lie.
Numerous people that I know here are devastated. At first I thought they were joking, but then I soon came to realize that they were being serious. And honestly this shocked me.
I understand and believe that he was a great singer and truly changed music history with many of his songs and albums, and lets not forget the dancing. But still. He has not released anything recently, remember he was going to tour again because he was out of money. And yes I'm going to say it, let us not forget about the whole mess involving him and the possible child molesting. I refuse to bring that into it, because everyone has an opinion, so I will just put it out there.
In my book he deserves to be mourned, of course. But does it mean that the average person needs to stop their life for a day, I think not. Maybe this is insensitive, everyone deals with sorrow differently, but still. It just boggles the mind.
When I was on facebook yesterday(Friday) I read an interesting thing. One of my friends had said that the whole world news was dominated with the death of one man, yet the fact there was a explosion on a bus in Iraq that killed how many people, people are even talking about. His comment really summed up how I felt.
Well so as not to go on and on about MJ, I want to just make one more observation. First I want to say that of course what I am about to say is not how everyone thinks here, but I have had this conversation with more than one person here.
I have talked with some people that think Michael Jackson is African.(note its not just him, but he is a good case example, and the discussion was brought back up since he died)
Now for us, he is African-American. He was born and raised in America. So were his parents. So are most African-Americans. Many families have even been in American much longer than us "white folks" who might have came later, eg through ellis island. But people here still say they are African and don't see a difference. From what I can tell, nationality, heritage, and ethinicity is sometimes very hard to explain to some people here. I have also had similiar discussions with other people from my group, so I know they have encountered this too. Not really sure what it means, but it does make my mind tumble.
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I agree with much of what you said here. When I was thinking about which celebrity deaths would have any strong emotional impact upon me, I realized it would only be the death of a sitting US president that could elicit the response that apparently MJ has brought out in others.
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