They're down with it cuz it's the easy way and they don't know any better. It seems to me as if Katherine raised her children that way. Look at them, many of them were deadbeats at one point, had financial troubles numerous times. Most of them haven't worked in a couple of decades. Most of them believe regular work is 'beneath' them because they used to be famous in the 70s. Just because Michael was fortunate enough to earn whatever he earned doesn't mean all of them are entitled to it. How many more millions did Michael have to spend on his relatives for them to be satisfied?
You help them once, you help them twice, you help them thrice, he put the majority of his siblings kids through school. What else is he expected to do? People say they were there when he needed support, now I'm gonna be bold here and say it out loud. SO WHAT? So what if they were?! You want them to get something in return because some of them decided to support him when the man was battling his life?! Isn't that what 'family' is supposed to do?! To be there? And after everything Michael's done for them, the least they could do to return his numerous favors was to be there, without expecting anything back from him in their minds.
There is no doubt in my mind that they would have led regular lives somewhere across the United States WITHOUT Michael. Katherine sees no harm in exploiting Michael if it benefits the rest of the gang, because she's been doing just that throughout Michael's entire life. It's like they are trying to 'punish' him for achieving whatever he did. But again, it wasn't Michael's fault that he was gifted while the others were not, it wasn't Michael's fault that he was disciplined while they weren't, it wasn't Michael's fault that he posessed the work ethic the rest of them lacked. It wasn't Michael's fault that he made it big while they were buried in oblivion. It wasn't Michael's fault that he was who he was, and the others were not. Michael did MORE THAN ENOUGH for them.
And you know maybe, just maybe if they had behaved differently toward him, without all the jealousy, resentment, bitterness, lies, scheming- involved, maybe he would have thought better of them. Maybe he wouldn't have distanced himself from them as early as he did. I'm even surprised Michael managed to reach 50 with all the madness involved in his life, madness pure nastiness he was facing from all sides including from his family at times.
When Michael said he was a very strong and that he had rhinoceros skin, I wasn't entirely convinced, in my mind I thought he was trying to hide his real feelings, that he couldn't be that strong. But now being older and seeing a tiny bit of how much crap he actually had to deal with from everywhere, including his family. I totally believe him. Michael was indeed a very strong man, and he had to have had rhinoceros skin. He must have been a strong man, because I know I wouldn't have made it as long as he did with all the people around.
And it's even sadder to think what the man outlived/dealt with only to be killed at the hands of an incompetent arrogant asshole as Murray. You'd think this family would actually fight for justice, the least they could do is fight for Murray to be convicted but it seems as if speaking out against Murray - the man who killed their son/sibling- is even too much to ask from them. It's a travesty, a real travesty to witness all the madness unfolding after Michael's death, and no Michael did not deserve this, he did not deserve to have a family like this one, he does not deserve to have siblings and parents interested in money only.
It's not right that many of them sold interviews 1 week after Michael died selling him out, selling his children out, it's not right for them to say Michael and his children were not blood related yet 4 of them did just that. It's not right for them to say Michael was an addict, a junkie in denial, them comparing Michael to a horse that had to be led to water was not right either. It's not right for some of them to go around and proclaim their sympathy toward Murray, it's not right for them to go around and state Murray is the fall guy, when by all accounts he is the one who killed Michael.
It's not right for them to sell interviews to the press saying they've forgiven Murray. The Jackson's are willing to jeopardize this entire case against Murray for the sake of the mighty $. And that's just not right no matter what justifications some might come up with. NO NO NO
