Maybe, MJ was the most eccentric person I ever knew in music, though I don’t consider it a negative, in the language of art, it was flamboyant & creatively inspiring, let’s face it he was very hard to understand because he was so different from most. He wasn’t proven guilty, so I’m going to say more.... The depressing sadness I’ve felt in the last week after recent events in the media re: MJ have begged me to ask a question about humanity. Where has human compassion and kindness to folks who are not like most gone? If we are to believe all that we have read & seen against MJ, then should we be wary of people who have been traumatised ? In no way am I belittling the accounts of anyone who claims they were abused, because we simply cannot prove without a shadow of doubt, but where do we draw the line? If someone’s kindness & childlike manner can be judged so severely, so disparagingly, so easily then why do we even need the law? There is so much more I could say, it is evident that MJ had trauma issues well into adulthood, he never got to be a child himself, but how does that translate suddenly to 100% guilty. I hope we have a better tomorrow to look forward too, where we don’t all conclude that someone is a bad person because their behaviour or personality has some strange idiosyncrasies. One hyped up documentary, 10 yrs after he died & suddenly radio stations & film producers want to pull his music from people’s lives, No’one decides what artists or entertainers I will listen too. I say we need to leave his legacy alone, if it cannot be proven, it needs not be acted on.... I’m asking others, because I already feel like I’m wrong for wondering where do we draw the line....
Maybe ‘Man in the Mirror’ wasn’t so far from the truth, Maybe humanity is losing its edge, but it had to be said. I’m asking myself to have compassion whilst the world around wants to sweep a legacy of music under a rug due to allegations. I’m asking myself to allow myself to accept how my heart believes events happened, I don’t want to be pushed into believing something that I cannot possibly know for sure. I am an MJ fan, there is no doubt, but I believe in innocent until proven guilty. #MichaelJackson #letstalkaboutmentalhealth #ImaSurvivorToo #Trauma #Anxiety