The Death of Michael Jackson

I believe that every time a person dies, it diminishes the human race. Based on this principle, I fill sad for the death of Mr. Jackson.

However, I am appalled and surprised to see the media (TV, newspapers, blogs, fora, comments by "important" people, etc.) dedicating so much time to celebrate the live of a man who, under no circumstances, can be held as a role model for our society. Certainly not to our children!

Apparently he killed himself with and overdose of drugs (Grace Rwaramba, his secretary for many years and the the nursemaid of his children testified to the fact that he was a constant consumer of pain killers and drugs), many times was accused of being a pedophile (this maybe an exaggeration), he renegades his own race by changing his looks with surgery (he made his skin to look whitter, he made his nose and his lips thinner, etc.) because he wanted to look and have the factions of a white person. I wonder why young and old African American admire this man who did not want to be what he was: an African American.

The same day that Mr. Jackson died, many other people died: the little children who died of starvation in Ethiopia and Somalia, the little girl who was killed in Darfur, the children who died of infection in Haiti because the family could get anti-biotics, the newborn girl who was killed by her parents in China because she was born a girl, and many more.

For these deaths I cry every day.

I cannot shed a tear for Mr. Jackson. The man, apparently, killed himself with an overdose of drugs (just like the other mediocre man called Elvis Presley).

The fact that Mr. Jackson was, according to some tastes, a good singer does not make me admire him in any way. In any case, I prefer to listen to Juan Diego Flores, Jose Carreras, Rolando Villazon, Placido Domingo, and others of the same kind.

I wonder why our society pays so much attention to these people when they are alive and when they die. Is this because we really want to be like them, or it is because we are attracted to the power of money these people amaze?

Abe