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Thank you, I agree with much you have said and it needs to be said. Yet, I feel that the entire memorial service should have not happened.
There has been too much smoke and mirrors about this brilliantly talented but depraved man's life. We all love people and things in our childhood that help us along the way on our path to adulthood, but then we must face things as they are when we grow up. MJ never did grow up, never faced his demons. He anethesizied himself, bleached himself white, designed and bought for himself pretty white blond babies, obsessed on self mutilation, slept with young boys who he hurt deeply but he could not admit to it or see it for what it was. And now it appears his fans also cannot or refuse to see Michael as he was. This memorial was an atrocity because it was all about perpetruating his own lie about his childlike pure self, not the true Michael Jackson who was a dark and disturbed man.
