I've been staying with my aunt for the past few weeks, and since being here, I've learned more about Michael Jackson than anyone. My aunt is a fanatic; my cousins even call her obsessed. Well, yesterday we were on youtube watching all of Mike's old videos, and when we came to "Who is it", my aunt told me something I did not know. This song was written for us. Now, I remember hearing the song when I was in middle school and loving the beat and singing to it like someone had wronged me, but when I heard my aunt describe the true meaning, I felt ashamed. It's not very often that I am forced to feel total remorse for something that I've done. The last time I remember feeling this way was when I poured salt on a slug as a child. I just stood there crying and my dad asked me how I felt and what I learned from that. This was that same type of feeling.
Obviously I didn't know Michael Jackson, and obviously I never personally did anything to the man, but in some obscure way, I did. In some obscure way, we all did. I fed into the hype that he was bleaching his skin because he wanted to be white. While I never believed that he molested those kids, I did believe that he had psychological issues and many other things wrong with him. The man was human. He was flawed just like the rest of us. I listen to the lyrics of "Who is it" and I feel as though I failed as a Christian. My only job is to live like Jesus lived, and I'll tell you, Jesus would not have passed judgement on that man.
Read the lyrics, listen to the song. We loved him and left him and offered up no explanation.
Now girl, I don't know if you remember, but I was/am obsessed with MJ, and all I have to say is AMEN!!! A lot of his songs were his pleas, he poured his emotions out on smooth beats with great hooks. "Why why do they do me that way?" I mean he had a top hit called "Leave me alone" If only we would have payed more attention. :)
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