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  Posted By: Shanel T @ 07/05/2009 9:48:52 PM

  Mr Gates is obviously a racist. I am ashamed that Newsweek calls itself a reputable magazine. How could you allow such hatred as that posted between the pages of this week's edition. Mr. Gates not only attacked the World's Greatest Entertainer of ALL TIME, but he managed to attack the culture of African Americans. Who made him the judge??? I call for a public apology to the Jackson family, his fans around the world and to African Americans. Mr. Gates clearly has some issues he needs to overcome!

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  Posted By: mfdiazpugh @ 07/04/2009 11:57:21 PM

  I think he was too sensitive, and he couldn´t deal with all the agressions he suffered...I personally think that after the arrengement he did with who accused him first, he must have gone to live outside the US, to Europe, to a more respectful country, such as Switzerland, for example, just as Jolie-Pitt did.
  I think he could be better in a place which could provide him other values, different from the fast-consumist american style.
  I like your comment.

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  Posted By: mfdiazpugh @ 07/04/2009 11:50:51 PM

  like how Newsweek wrote about him, without all that garbage other media writes about him, which we all now know were lies...
  He was too commited to human race, trying to teach almost "biblic" lessons through his songs...I have the feeling that he used music, dancing, his videos and his shows just as a tool to communicate basic principles to human beings. You can read in his first songs, that there was always a "primary lesson" surrounded with facts just to make the lesson accesible to his great audience...For example, in Billie Jean... "People always told me be careful of what you do
  And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
  And mother always told me be careful of who you love
  And be careful of what you do 'cause the lie becomes the truth"
  In "Beat it": "Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
  No one wants to be defeated
  Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
  It doesn't matter who's wrong or right"
  Once he was VERY famous, he stopped "filling" the principal lesson with facts, to go directly to the lesson he wanted to communicate. I think his knowledge of God, as a Jehova witness, had a great influence on him.
  He was a great, and very shy, SENSITIVE and vulnerable human being (although his great performances on stage), with an unhappy childhood which he tried to recover then. Evil people detected he was too good, and used him to make money...the idea just makes me sick.
  He was a great singer, with a beautiful voice, a great dancer, a great composer, and a great entertainer...
  I just simply wish his children will be taken good care, as he would have liked to do it.
  Than you Michael, we love you
  RIP from Patagonia Argentina