Long Live the King

By Reckless Rach

Today is a day that will be forever marked in history; and not because Honduras, after a violent military coup against it’s democratically elected president, has decided to mediate their political crisis. Nor because today marks almost a month since Iran has broke out in bloody protests and shady media coverts. No, today, there is only one thing to talk about; only one focus for every breathing person in the entire world, including some random rice farmers in Timbuktu and it’s the Michael Jackson Tribute.

With a star studded cast, live television coverage on several TV networks including CNN and MTV and millions of viewers worldwide, it was nice to see the world stop burning for one second to admire a brave and beautiful cultural icon… excuse me, the cultural icon of the Century. Even the persistent, depressive rain in NY subsided for a while in honor of the King.

And while watching the tribute and all of the people whose hearts Michael Jackson has touched, from Magic Johnson to John Mayer to his 3 children, all I could think was “Fuck all the Michael, haters! And yes that includes Kat fuckin’ Williams!”

It seems like now, in death, people have realized the huge disservice and pressure the media placed on a man who had grown up pretty much entirely in the lime light.  Can you stop for a second and imagine, I mean really imagine that type of pressure?  Really?  Imagine how you felt at that big game in high school, in front of all your family, friends and neighbors playing for a college scholarship or to impress the girl of your dreams… Now imagine that magnified by a million, complicated by shitloads of money and how it would be to feel the weight of all those expectations, of your nerves, of your fears, of defeat and humiliation being thrown onto you non- stop since you were 5 years old.   >DAMN< 

Yes, I think for that reason, the media could’ve cut Michael a lil slack.  Shit, give the guy a fucking break.

Especially since Michael was unarguably one of the most generous and humanitarian celebrities the world has ever seen.  He was always pushing for some cause, trying to get people to care about the environment and African babies way before Angelina Jolie made adopting them cool.  Even in death his generosity is insurmountable considering how he has left 20% of his estate to various charities.

So, all you Michael haters can go play in traffic.  Who on this earth can touch Michael? Madonna? That bitch stole an African baby and tried to call it adoption!  I don’t think so.  Elvis? Puhlease!  We all know Elvis stole his sound from niggas.  The Beatles? Close but they have not transcended racial barriers and cultural lines like Michael has.  You can go to the smallest, most remote village in the smallest town, in some barely inhabited island off the coast of nowhere and for sure, all 10 people in that village have heard of Michael and love his music. 

That is why today will be remembered for years and years to come as the day the world bowed it’s head in consideration and whispered “Long Live the King!”