Blog by +Wanda Dorn
The Media vs. African American Male Public Figures
Below is a blog I wrote about Michael Jackson as the media assassination
continued even after his death. This article appeared in the Huffington Post back in July, 2009
Just wanted to share how similar the Bill Cosby media assassination is as it continues to unfold. Remember, Michael was found "not guilty" even after most had rushed to judgement and persecuted him based on media frenzy
Check out my two new Blogs on Cosby
Subject: Michael Jackson and African American Public Figures Vs. The Media
Date:
July 8, 2009 10:31:49 PM PDT
Michael
has not been proven guilty. White
males have been sued for many things where they pay people
off. When you have un-classy persons as the boy and
mom whom Michael went to trial against comes forward
for money you fight or you pay. Note that during the trial,
their time-line was not on point, something
that you wouldn't do if you were telling the truth. If
everyone remembers, the Jackson family was
there in force despite the reports that they don't get along,
including Father Joe. They are always there
for each other. Remember, they also filing
for malicious prosecution because of the influence of the
media's zealous on the prosecution staff. I
understand why they didn't, because it would have given the
media pendants more fuel for their "opinions".
As
for Michael sleeping with children, Elvis slept in the same bed with a
teenaged
girl for years, imported her across state and country
lines. No one called him a pedophile, no one wanted him
charged and arrested. Woody Allen admitted
not only sleeping with his own teen daughter, but admitted
having sex with his underage daughter, and no
one wanted him charged and arrested.
As
for Michael and drugs: Elvis died in a drug bed
and yet he's called a hero and people run around
saying their idol "is still alive". In movies like
"Independence Day" life imitates
art where people have banners to aliens "bring back Elvis".
If fans can worship Elvis and
disregard his disgraceful history, African Americans and all
ethnicities and peoples of the world can love Michael for
his excellence and disregard "allegations" of
wrongdoings without newscasters trying to tell us
how his fans should feel.
As
for Michael having a doctor
with him at home, I am from the Elvis era, and was in the arts
when Michael was, as Brooke Shields said,
Michael was five starting his career. Therefore, I followed
the positives and negatives of both Elvis
and Michael. It was reported that Elvis, while in the
military, I believe, was found to have spent several days
locked up in a room with drugs and a doctor.
Locked up, meaning no one was allowed in. We
all know that Elvis was a drug addict during
most all his career. We are really just now hearing
that perhaps Michael allegedly had problems
in recent years; certainly he didn't have a drug problem all
those years ago when he began to break records and
break down barriers. That is what we celebrate.
Even if the allegations are by a stretch of my imagination
true, he's dead now. My Mother said
"If you don't have anything good to say about the dead, don't
say anything".
I
hope the media and other "holy" persons, will
remember since the media is dominated by people
who are of one ethnic group, the news
commentators don't have dictatorship over to whom we world believes
the world's leaders and icons are. It seems
that our African American male public figures are treated
as a non-entity, with disregard as to how many and whom it
hurts, not just the public figure, but their
family, their income, their friends, and very importantly,
their professional careers. White male
counterparts seem to be forgiven, protected and/or certainly
reported on with more sensitivity.
As
regards the soldiers coming home on the same
day as Michael's memorial and receiving no coverage. You
have your President Bush to thank for that.
He dictated that there be no coverage of the soldiers
returning home, did you get upset and
complain about him doing that as a rule, and not just one day that
Michael was memorialized. If those who are so against
Michael receiving a little of our time, tell
the media and the world to tare down "Graceland" because Elvis
was a pedophile, a drug addict
and is still worshipped by some just as Michael will continue
to be in "all" of our life times.
I
can go on with parallels of the media's reporting biased, especially
when reporting about African
American male figures. I thank Michael for
continuing to do in death what he did in life, care about
people by making changes.”
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Let me just add that I saw a documentary on Ike Turner who said it was Elvis Presley and Red Fox who re-introduced him to drugs by having the drugs in a hotel room and almost forcing the drugs on him.
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