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Happy Belated Birthday to Michael Jackson, Who Turned 50 August 29th
August 30, 2008By: Lynn Green
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Like everyone else in the black community, I go in stages regarding Michael Jackson. There are times when I am frustrated by him. Times when the very thought of him angers me. And times when I am disgusted.
But then there are other times. Times like right now where my heart bleeds for him and for the unspoken trauma that obviously so overtook him that he dyed his skin white, had his face disfigured, hair weaved in. Basically he is a white woman at this point. His self hatred is so intense that he even took steps to find a way to have three white children. Two of his so-called children are blonde. It’s pitiful.
That transfiguration did not just happen. His hatred of himself as an adult black male is, I believe, the result of childhoold abuse and/or trauma. And rather than go into counseling to face it, he has dealt with it by retreating and becoming someone who he is not.
I sort of view Michael as an eccentric cousin who agitates me but whom I dearly love. He is in fact a victim. And though I sometimes blog about him in a negative way, truth is, I love the brother.
What I will never take from him is the true talent that he is and always has been. He has been with us forever, seems like. He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
Even when I’m getting on you, Michael, truth is—I love you and wish you well and pray that before you shut your eyes for the last time in this earth realm, that you will come to peace with your childhood and what happened to you. And that you will come into a saving grace of Jesus Christ, as only He can save and heal you.
Here he is singing, With a Child’s heart
Michael doing Moonwalk for the first time




Hicktowners, if you want to be blessed, PLEASE take a half hour out of your life and listen and WATCH the three parts of the sermon below.
Have you all been following the confirmation ceremonies this week? This is a GREAT moment in American history. Black children are witnessing a Harvard educated black couple who love each other and love their children—and who are legally married to one another take a prime place in history.


