We really tried very hard not to comment on Micheal Jackson’s death. We felt that the death of Michael Jackson should be private and hence we did not write anything about it. But then, this has now gone into the realm of politics in such a bizarre fashion thanks to Representative Peter King of New York.

The world has seen what Representative Peter King said with regards to Michael Jackson. My reaction to that was that he could say whatever he wanted but I would not agree with him. But why did he have to call him a child molester? That unnecessary started a chain of unnecessary events.

African Americans love Michael Jackson. It was Michael Jackson that put a Black image on the map. He was a worldwide media icon and entered a league of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley when it comes to being a phenomenon. There were only Whites before he came along. Everybody wanted to be Michael Jackson in his hey day. You could be a waiter from Beijing, China to millionaire in Dakar, Senegal; you were a Michael Jackson. He did it first, what Michael Jordan and President Obama did later.

I do not think that he is a person that was responsible for breaking the barriers for Black people, I think he was the first one to walk through it. After all the hard work done by the civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King in the past that broke the barriers down, Michael Jackson justified their success in ways the they could not imagine. Was he important? To some extent, yes. However, I think that somebody else could have broken that barrier too with sheer brilliance. It was just that Michael Jackson did it first.

I agree with Representative King that he spoke what many Americans thought of Michael Jackson. But by calling a Black icon who died a week or so away a pedophile, you knew you would be asking for trouble. He should have expected African Americans to snap in their emotional state. And they did.

He is now being called a racist by some members National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Come on! What he said was wrong but it was not racist! If he said that about a White guy, he would have been equally wrong. People should not equate a person of minority being wronged with that person being a victim of racial harassment.

I also think that there is also this element of jumping on the opportunity to get their five minute of fame from all corners here. Did anyone know who Representative King was before this? It was also good for people like Representative Bobby Rush and Hazel Dukes. Who ever heard of them before? And you know what, the media have allowed them to succeed.

For the record, I do not think that Michael Jackson was a pedophile. I am not that big of a fan but I liked some of his earlier works.

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