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So I've been watching alot of MJ interviews and reading alot of articles because I felt like I owned that to myself to know the truth about him after all these years of putting him down. What did I think when I was little? I remembered in grade 3 watching his molestation trial news TV and thinking he was SUCH a bad,bad man. And the fact everyone, including my parents told me the reason he had white skin, cuz he was so ashamed to be black. Well, to my surprise, all of that is wrong. I feel like I want to slap myself on the face, because I was one of the ignorant people who went along with what the media portrayed of him. I can safely say, after doing so much reasearch about him that he was a very nice, caring, and extremely talented person. It's funny. When he was alive, he was blocked out of alot of people's minds and just thought of as "being there". but now he's dead, people are saying HOW MUCH they missed him, and WHAT HE MEANT to them. I remembered a few years back when everyone cracked jokes about him. Now all these people, myself included are saying how great he is and calling themselves fans. When he's dead, people truly begin to appreciate him and finding out for themselves how talented he is. I was just going along with the crowd at first, saying all the RIP and WE'LL MISS YOU stuff...but now I find myself being a fan.
Im sorry if ppl like me all of a sudden show so much love for him, cuz I guess we didn't know what we had till he's gone...sorry for being a fake fan...


btw His music is AMAZING. My favourite song is BEN.
 
You. My friend, and yes I use the term friend here, are one of those people who have the balls to come out and say that which so many of us to know to be the truth, that so many peoples minds are governed/manipulated/warped by the sleazy ****** media.

The media says jump, and those that believe everything the media says says "How high?"

I remember the day after Michael Jackson was given the "Not Guilty" on ALL charges back in 2005 and speaking to my sister on the phone about it, now bear in mind she, at the time was engaged to a real rough ignorant asshole who's view on African Americans was far from nice, the jokes(?) he made regarding ethnic minorities was enough to make anyone feel nauseous so obviously he got into my sisters head because when I said to her:

"Isn't it great about Michael Jackson." her reply was, "No. He did it."

And this is the mentality of many people in this world, I have an account on yahoo answers and the amount of disparaging comments is beyond sickening and much of this I predict is by misinformed youngsters.

No matter what you thought before, you cannot turn back time, and as Michael was such a nice and forgiving man I am very sure he has forgiven you, welcome to the fan club.

*Extends hand*
 
You were only 8 years old. It's natural at that age that you will believe what your parents and other adults around you are saying, and grow up still believing it if no one ever challenged you to see him for yourself. Welcome to the light. :)
 
awww,,you broke my heart. You were just a kid..besides a 3rd grader should not be watching a child molestation case. Not your fault. anyway I applaud you for your boldness. You are very honest. You are always welcome here. :)
 
Don't put yourself down like that. What's important now is that you know the truth.
I respect the fact that you are honest. Thank you. You're part of keeping his legacy alive! In the future you can teach the younger generation about what an amazing person and entertainer he was.
Welcome to the fanbase :)
 
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You were young, don't put yourself down. Be glad you have seen the truth and that you were honest.

Welcome to the fourm. :)
 
faefaebabe said:
So I've been watching alot of MJ interviews and reading alot of articles because I felt like I owned that to myself to know the truth about him after all these years of putting him down. What did I think when I was little? I remembered in grade 3 watching his molestation trial news TV and thinking he was SUCH a bad,bad man. And the fact everyone, including my parents told me the reason he had white skin, cuz he was so ashamed to be black. Well, to my surprise, all of that is wrong. I feel like I want to slap myself on the face, because I was one of the ignorant people who went along with what the media portrayed of him. I can safely say, after doing so much reasearch about him that he was a very nice, caring, and extremely talented person. It's funny. When he was alive, he was blocked out of alot of people's minds and just thought of as "being there". but now he's dead, people are saying HOW MUCH they missed him, and WHAT HE MEANT to them. I remembered a few years back when everyone cracked jokes about him. Now all these people, myself included are saying how great he is and calling themselves fans. When he's dead, people truly begin to appreciate him and finding out for themselves how talented he is. I was just going along with the crowd at first, saying all the RIP and WE'LL MISS YOU stuff...but now I find myself being a fan.
Im sorry if ppl like me all of a sudden show so much love for him, cuz I guess we didn't know what we had till he's gone...sorry for being a fake fan...


btw His music is AMAZING. My favourite song is BEN.
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You're a fan just as much as everybody here! Please feel welcome on MJJC. You'll see this is a wonderful place because you will like to explore a lot.
 
faefaebabe said:
So I've been watching alot of MJ interviews and reading alot of articles because I felt like I owned that to myself to know the truth about him after all these years of putting him down. What did I think when I was little? I remembered in grade 3 watching his molestation trial news TV and thinking he was SUCH a bad,bad man. And the fact everyone, including my parents told me the reason he had white skin, cuz he was so ashamed to be black. Well, to my surprise, all of that is wrong. I feel like I want to slap myself on the face, because I was one of the ignorant people who went along with what the media portrayed of him. I can safely say, after doing so much reasearch about him that he was a very nice, caring, and extremely talented person. It's funny. When he was alive, he was blocked out of alot of people's minds and just thought of as "being there". but now he's dead, people are saying HOW MUCH they missed him, and WHAT HE MEANT to them. I remembered a few years back when everyone cracked jokes about him. Now all these people, myself included are saying how great he is and calling themselves fans. When he's dead, people truly begin to appreciate him and finding out for themselves how talented he is. I was just going along with the crowd at first, saying all the RIP and WE'LL MISS YOU stuff...but now I find myself being a fan.
Im sorry if ppl like me all of a sudden show so much love for him, cuz I guess we didn't know what we had till he's gone...sorry for being a fake fan...


btw His music is AMAZING. My favourite song is BEN.
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You were just a kid and the media have been spinning so much for so long, I can see how people start believing it all.
Anyhow, you are here now, which is great!
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Welcome, don't be too hard on yourself.

I think you are very brave for joining us and being so honest.

Michael would be proud!!

Keep in touch and enjoy learning all about our MJ xx xx
 
faefaebabe said:
So I've been watching alot of MJ interviews and reading alot of articles because I felt like I owned that to myself to know the truth about him after all these years of putting him down. What did I think when I was little? I remembered in grade 3 watching his molestation trial news TV and thinking he was SUCH a bad,bad man. And the fact everyone, including my parents told me the reason he had white skin, cuz he was so ashamed to be black. Well, to my surprise, all of that is wrong. I feel like I want to slap myself on the face, because I was one of the ignorant people who went along with what the media portrayed of him. I can safely say, after doing so much reasearch about him that he was a very nice, caring, and extremely talented person. It's funny. When he was alive, he was blocked out of alot of people's minds and just thought of as "being there". but now he's dead, people are saying HOW MUCH they missed him, and WHAT HE MEANT to them. I remembered a few years back when everyone cracked jokes about him. Now all these people, myself included are saying how great he is and calling themselves fans. When he's dead, people truly begin to appreciate him and finding out for themselves how talented he is. I was just going along with the crowd at first, saying all the RIP and WE'LL MISS YOU stuff...but now I find myself being a fan.
Im sorry if ppl like me all of a sudden show so much love for him, cuz I guess we didn't know what we had till he's gone...sorry for being a fake fan...


btw His music is AMAZING. My favourite song is BEN.
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Don't worry about it. You were so little, and you were influenced by things that a lot of adults were even influenced by - the media, mainly.

I think it's beautiful that you at least now remember him in love. Because love is all he wanted to spread, that was his message, and it doesn't matter that you're late; you're there. You are very welcome to the family indeed :)

I agree with Becca - Michael would be proud. You're brave for coming out and saying it as it is, and it's never too late to love.
 
lol thx guys
just had to be honest cuz theres so many ppl now all of a sudden pretending to have loved MJ all along!
glad I found out the truth about him=]
 
Welcome to the family :) (Or as Michael said..."meet the family" :)
 
Welcome to the family!!!!!!!!

Its good you admitted your mistake and not saying that you have alwasy been a fan - they're the people that annoy me..like the ones who have bad mouthed him and then say oh i'v always been a fan!

so yay welcome to you! :D
 
So I read faefaebabe's post and had to leave this message..

I really hadn't been a Michael Jackson fan until his death. I'm a person who doesn't really pay attention to the media because most of what they say are lies. Well whenever I'm bored I will go online and just search random stuff. Sometimes Michael Jackson would come up and it would be about either his trial or the incident with Michael "dangling" blanket over the balcony. After reading a little on each event I thought that he was a weird celebrity who had some serious issues.
I was surprised to be at a loss for words when I came to learn of Michael's death. I knew I hadn't been the nicest person, I hadn't ridiculed him in public or on any type of post online but I did in my mind. I decided to watch some videos on youtube and found amazing videos of him performing and ones of him when he was off stage where he was still amazing. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He was completely different from what the media portrayed him to be. I couldn't stop watching videos of him and couldn't believe I ever thought he was weird. As I watched videos of him both performing and when he was just simply being Michael, the caring, funny, shy guy who just wanted to be like peter pan and never grow up. I found myself becoming attracted to Michael and having to shake my head thinking that just a few days before I thought he was some weirdo who I would never think about like that. Well here I am now, not wanting to watch anything but Michael Jackson videos.
As I watched the memorial service I felt a heaviness of heart. I hadn't really felt that way since my mothers death and couldn't believe that someone's death could have also affected me this way. I cried when Paris told the world of her love for her father, when usher touched Michael's casket and could barely finish the song than taking off his glasses to show his tears, and when Marlon Jackson told Michael to give their brother a hug for him. I had to shut and lock my door because I didn't want any one to come in I just wanted to be able to cry. As I watched news coverage about Michael I would listen to my now favorite song of both Michael's and all time now , "You Are Not Alone" and can't help but feel the love he had for his fans.
For me I feel I need to apologize to you fans and to Michael for not being the true fan I needed to be. I feel I'm a fan now but I didn't want to say I was a fan before apologizing.

Thank you faefaebabe for having the guts to come out and say what you did. It let someone like me be able to write this message.
 
When he was alive: "omg this freak is such a child molester, he is ashamed to be black!!!"

When he is dead: "omg he meant so much to me, what a musical genius he was, RIP!!!!!!"

People make me sick.
You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
 
OK
this is ... *sigh*

hate don't get you no where. Pushing away or belittling people that have been drawn to Michael Jackson after his death is wrong on so many levels. I can understand the anger some have towards someone like the original poster ... but what is the point ??

Do we expect that he will not have any new fans now ??
How would that help his legacy ??
Who will buy his work after we 'fans' have all passed on ??

Just what is the point in hating someone that has changed their mind about him, for the better ?? It does not compute :unsure:

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MJJChichi said:
OK
this is ... *sigh*

hate don't get you no where. Pushing away or belittling people that have been drawn to Michael Jackson after his death is wrong on so many levels. I can understand the anger some have towards someone like the original poster ... but what is the point ??

Do we expect that he will not have any new fans now ??
How would that help his legacy ??
Who will buy his work after we 'fans' have all passed on ??

Just what is the point in hating someone that has changed their mind about him, for the better ?? It does not compute :unsure:

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You misunderstand me. This is how I feel. I'd love to see Michael Jackson's music have a rennesance, that he will be immortalized and draw a lot of new fans. BUT: what I hate to see is people who hated him and put him down for no reason at all when he was alive come and say now "oh he was such a genius, I see it now". It just makes me sick to my stomach.
 
Chanya said:
You misunderstand me. This is how I feel. I'd love to see Michael Jackson's music have a rennesance, that he will be immortalized and draw a lot of new fans. BUT: what I hate to see is people who hated him and put him down for no reason at all when he was alive come and say now "oh he was such a genius, I see it now". It just makes me sick to my stomach.
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I guess thats because he's been in the media 24/7 since his death, so I start wondering whats so great about this man? So I looked a little deeper, and find out the truth for myself. why does it make you so angry?
 
faefaebabe said:
I guess thats because he's been in the media 24/7 since his death, so I start wondering whats so great about this man? So I looked a little deeper, and find out the truth for myself. why does it make you so angry?
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Who said that makes me angry? I'm not generally an angry person. What I dislike, however, is people who used to gang up on him and contribute to making his life living hell while he was alive, coming on here now claiming he was so great all along and now they see it all so clearly. It's just sickening to watch, and I have a right to say so. I welcome any unbiased new fan warmly.
 
Chanya said:
Who said that makes me angry? I'm not generally an angry person. What I dislike, however, is people who used to gang up on him and contribute to making his life living hell while he was alive, coming on here now claiming he was so great all along and now they see it all so clearly. It's just sickening to watch, and I have a right to say so. I welcome any unbiased new fan warmly.
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So its not ok to be a fan now cuz I disliked him before? im so sry chanya for making you feel so offended and sick. But, that's the truth and I cant go back in time and change the way I felt about MJ. All I know is his music is good and he was a good person, not like what lots of ppl thought he was.=)
 
It is totally understandable to believe what your parents tell you, and what the media tells you when you are so young! My mother still believes that he did those horrific things, my father is on the fence, and I know in my heart that he is innocent! I do not even remember him going to trial because I tried so hard not to pay attention to it all. I just remember being a littel girl twirling my baton to beat it and singing along with the words and thinking he was a really great song writer. I am so glad you have decided to listen to your heart and your own head instead of everyone else's nonsense though!!
 
I can understand young kids being influenced, but I have no respect whatsoever for grown people who swallow everything the media feeds them or what other people feed them and then pass it on as fact. I don't want them around me. You may ask why I feel so strongly about this, well I know for a fact that these kind of people destroyed the life and perhaps eventually contributed to the death of a good person that I cared so much about and who had so much to give. I don't want those kind of people around me. I didn't before, and I don't now. Simple as that.
 
. Are you talking about me(cuz I'm still a kid) or grownups? That's why I want to share how I feel because a lot of people like u are very angry at people who've talked so much shit on him then pretend to be a lifelong fan...I made this thread to apologize to his true fans;
 
No, I'm just lashing out in general. I'm very frustrated at this, so forgive me if you felt attacked. That wasn't my intention, that's why I specified that I was speaking in general and your thread was a good place to vent those frustrations since it was on the topic. You're doing a brave thing by coming here and apologizing and admitting to being wrong, though. I'll give you respect for that. But those who come here and pretend like he was the greatest influence in their lives etc when just two weeks ago they were calling him a freak and a monster, that's the kind of people I'd rather be without. Hope that clarifies.
 
Thx for clarifying! I can understand your frustration because if I put myself in the shoes of MJ's lifelong fans, I can imagine the hurt u guys felt when he was alive by all the bad things said about him,than having to deal with his death and all his hardcore haters suddenly converting into "loyal" fans...that's a good reason to be mad...don't blame you for it:D
 
I've never turned my back on MJ, I have always defended him. Most young people who were kids of the 90s were not exposed to the MJ that was deemed as American role model that he was in the 80s. It's sad because the last 15 years of his life the media has made him to be weird and tried to discredit his huge impact on music. I did the same thing when Madonna was supposedly "snatching" her adopted African child from its father. I believed it for a while until Madonna spoke on it. I felt so bad for listening to the media, when in my heart I know Madonna is a good person. I now make sure that I take what the media says with a doubtful mind.

The lesson of MJ, is one in which we should get to know a person before listening to gossip about them.
 
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