1. Posted on Friday 26 June 2009 - 10:30

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   Joyce J. Wangui, AfricaNews reporter in Cape Town, South Africa

   South Africans and the entire world woke up to the news of the sudden death of pop music icon, Michael Jackson. Majority of the locals mourned and some went a notch higher as to wail loudly, while others, including a 35-year-old woman, tore her clothes into pieces, to mourn MJ's death. However, scores of others believe that his death came at the right time.

   

   AfricaNews reporter said Jackson has had a good share of love and hate from different people. From his die-hard music fans to those who feel that he neglected the African race. But more so, to the majority who shared the embarrassment and trauma of young boys who ‘claimed’ that MJ molested them. Jackson had been accused of plying young boys with alcohol and groping them, according to numerous media reports, and engaging in strange and inappropriate behaviour with other children.
   
   While facebooking and twittering with my friends, our reporter said, she was shocked to learn that not everyone, including those who were die-hard funs of Jackson’s music, mourned his death. While some believe his death was all too natural, others feel that it symbolizes the death of idolism in the pop music industry. If you reckon, the late singer has been tainted with too many cases of sex scandals and devil worshiping. Some even say he was a ghost in human skin.
   
   Africa News reporter rounded different views from different people who feel that MJ death is good riddance.
   
   Newton Biketi from Kenya felt totally nothing about his death. His shared his view with me on the social network facebook: “I honestly feel nothing about his death. He was just not happy with his African look so people in Africa mostly feel nothing.” He added that what he hated most about the pop star was the fact that he had to change his nose in different weather.
   
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   Edwin Musoni from Rwanda, twittering with this reporter said he is infuriated by Jackson’s sex scandals. “Michael Jackson...Rest In P(eaces) you old dirty paedophile. Hell must be missing one of its angels and that is why the devil took you!.”
   
   Peggy Zulu from Zambia said: “MJ failed to adopt himself to be white and instead adopted death...... there is time for everything.” Horisane Sithole from South Africa said that although MJ was loved by both blacks and whites for his music which helped in re-uniting the two races, his sexual misdemeanor would not be buried in the hatchet. “Did you read what he did to young boys?
   
   “Born black, died white!” I have nothing to feel sorry for. How can someone disown his own race? Asks John Kuria on facebook. He said that most Africans who are mourning MJ’s death are just being pretentious. Save for his music, Kuria thinks that the pop icon had nothing to do with being black.
   
   Christine Gitachu from Kenya added: “I think am more disturbed by the thought that kids will one day ask...who was Michael Jackson? How do you answer that?”
   
   Local radio stations in South Africa are honouring the icon’s death by playing all his music and asking funs to air their views on the singer. “What is in a name? That man has died with a debt of $400 million. Who will recover this debt? Asked Thulani Mpho while airing her views on radio.
   Another one feels that the biggest dilemma facing his family now is whether to bury him or place him in the plastics recycle bin. While airing her views on Metro FM, one of South Africa’s biggest radio stations, Lerato Daniels, feels that the late MJ deserved to die.
   “Well, his music was great and will be remembered at all times but he couldn’t contain his libido? Did he have to do it to small boys?”
   
   Michael Jackson, popularly known as MJ, has been on numerous occasions accused of sexual molestations to young boys but always vehemently denied them. And as Yahoo news reports, a TV documentary once showed MJ acknowledging that he shared his bed with children, a practice he described as sweet and not at all sexual.
   
   MJ died at the age of 50.

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1. Posted on Saturday 27 June 2009 22:50

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   Yebbus

   

   
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   Lid sinds June 2009

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   Michael Jackson, twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame , 13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles and over 750 million records worldwide. Yes, Jacko, the undisputed and unrivalled King of pop is dead and the world rightly mourns.
   
   I've no problem understanding the mourning of icons like Michael but what I take issue with, is the disproportionate, outrageous and gonzo-steroid outpouring of grief. Death is our common inevitable destiny, and it 'ain't matter whether you're black or white'. However, low lives and nincompoops can now make intelligent statements like 'the world would never be the same', 'This generation will have to live with this loss forever', etc. These expressions of latent personal inadequacy, upscaled and expressed through gross generalizations and utterances, is my problem.
   
   Michael Jackson never had a childhood! Yes, but so do millions of children in the third world. On the pluss side, Jacko wasn't given a gun and asked to obliterate his own family in order to demonstrate loyalty. Say nothing but good of the dead- I agree. But Jacko was estimated to be worth around 1 billion USD, and before his death, Jackson had announced a 50-date sell-out comeback tour, in London, England. The reason? Partly to cushion him out of a 500 million dollar debt.
   
   May Jacko rest in peace, and my condolences go solely to the Jackson family. My heartfelt condolences go to those children and adults around the world who can't make TV appearances, and for whom death remains the only surcease, not from a life of affluence, but one of destitution.
   
   Finally, until someone can show me a single child in Africa or Asia who would be having a meal less because of Jacko's death, I'll save some of my condolences for the true wretched of earth.
   
   See the same article on my blog http://istherebalmingilead.blogspot.com/

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