Seems like it may quiet some time before Michael Jackson will be allowed to "Rest In Peace".
Every day, something new makes the headlines. Today, CNN's Headline News, TMZ, the Jane Valez Mitchell Show and Nancy Grace have all been reporting that he is NOT the biological father of his three children. Some are speculating Debbie Roe is not the biological mother, but her attorney blasted that rumor today and said it is absolutely untrue. Numerous panel discussions throughout the day have have concluded that this isn't new news.....that there has been speculation throughout the years that doner sperm was used to create the children. To complicate the matter, he never adopted the children. However, California law says that children born to a cohabiting married couple are presumed to be the children of that couple. It may come down to something as simple as that for the two older children. But the birth certificate for the youngest child is circulating, and there is no mother's name listed on it.
Regardless of how they got here, MJ was still their father and the only parent they ever knew. We can only hope Michael's mother, Catherine, is shielding them from this circus since she was awarded temporary custody. Can you imagine being that young, losing your only parent, then a couple of days later, trying to factor in that parent might now be exactly who you thought he was?
According to most reports, it appears Michael may be headed back to his beloved Neverland Ranch.
I fear all of this will make the endless Anna-Nicole debacle look like a 60-second commercial.
How did we get to this?
I don't think I even want to know all of this, but when I turn on a legitimate news channel, this is all I see.
I want to remember Michael Jackson in the best video EVER....no, not "Thriller", but the "BAD" film. I love the story, the music, the dancing.......the modern-day Shakespearian-style story with a bit of West Side Story (without the girl) thrown in for interest. Or, when he was standing in a mockup of the top of the Statue of Liberty, hair and white shirt blowing in the wind, looking so handsome it made your heart hurt, as he told us it didn't matter if you were black or white. the morphing of faces was like nothing I had ever seen at that time.
I think Rev. Al sharpton was so right when he said in his eulogy that before Tiger Woods and before Barack Obama.....there was Michael Jackson.
Michael, somewhere, somehow, I hope you find some peace my friend.
