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| I am a fan. I understand some people feel obliged to judge him based on their opinions. I cleave to the facts. Fact: He was a brilliant, talented performer. Fact: He was an adult survivor of abuse. And, as the prodigy and golden goose, was not allowed to do what his brothers and sisters were. Fact: He was, as a result, a tortured soul, but also a generous, good-hearted person whose spirit never got past childhood. Factually speaking, Michael's music -- both with his family and without -- touched a lot of lives. He was in people's living rooms pretty much on a weekly basis from the late 60s all the way into the nineties, and to those people, that counts for much. He had millions of devoted fans. The fact is that the lack of a genuine childhood and/or private life only added pressure to an already fractured mind. The fact is that he was acquitted. His children were allowed to remain with him, and his mother has been cited as their guardian. And many of his fans did their best to support him while others ridiculed and condemned him. The fact is that despite how weird he got -- the surgeries, the skin bleaching, the masks and baby dangling -- nobody knows except the accusers and the accused what really took place. The fact is that some of the children who spent time with him have grown up into adults who -- now that there's nothing to protect him from -- still insist that nothing went on of an inappropriate nature between them. So I grieve his death and hope he finds the peace beyond that his fame and his notoriety denied him while he moonwalked the earth. | |||
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