Is the Michael Jackson trial a payback for the OJ acquittal?

[KlatooBNikto]

It seems like the powers-that-be want to show that a black man, celebrity or no celebrity, cannot get away with rigging the legal system to his advantage.After all, the system is not supposed to work that way and black people are supposed to know their place in the scheme of things.

By picking on a celebrity like Michael Jackson, they have the perfect answer to the 'injustice' of the OJ trial.He is weird, he is disliked by whites and blacks alike and no jury is going to acquit him even if there is no evidence.Perfect victim of our 'justice system' that went astray in the OJ trial.

[LoZoccolo]

1. What is entailed in this "picking"?

You said that they picked Michael Jackson. How did they do that? Are you saying he was framed?

[Walt Starr]

2. IMO, he's probably guilty of the charges and he will probably be

acquitted.

I haven't followed it much, but that's my impression on the thing.

[Ken Burch]

6. It;'s got nothing to do with OJ.

And Democrats should just steer clear of the whole damn thing.

However it comes out.

[Walt Starr]

8. Good idea n/t

[TeeYiYi]

3. No. There's no comparison between the two cases. nt

TYY

[AX10]

4. No it's a distraction from real news such as the Downing Street Memo.

[Warpy]

5. No, it's payback for the payoff over a decade ago

That DA was out to get him and just waiting for some greedy family to come along. There are so many problems with this case that if they convict him, it'll be to convict him for being bizarre in appearance and a total nutter in his lifestyle.

Most child molesters are married men with children who try to look as normal as possible to inspire trust. Jackson is so weird he's WAY outside the profile. Then there are those crazy people accusing him.

I'm just glad I'm not on that jury. Either you're convicting somebody weird as hell but largely harmless, or you're letting a possible molester walk.

[CatWoman]

9. Warpy

thank you for your common sense, and self-grandizing free logic.

A M.J. thread pops up every 15 minutes, and they are immediately filled with shouts of "Guilty Child Molester".

Most don't even think thru their verdicts. Their "gut" tells them that he's a guilty child molester.

The guy is guilty of being strange. Weird even.

But when a DA has to base his case on that circus of money grubbing "witnesses", as well as people who have vehemently denied being molested by him -- something is very wrong here.

[Sannum]

7. He is a 47 year old man who loves to sleep with children.

He has said that he would "Kill himself if he can never be with another child".

He has not been black since 1983.

Yep, sounds like someone I would want my kids to hang out with:eyes:

[CatWoman]

10. I wasn't aware that the OP was asking you to let your kids hang out

with him.

[Sannum]

11. I am tired of the focus on his race...

Honest to god, I don't see him as black, white or anything. The sudden "This is because he is black" is tiresome. Why are we focused on one black man who is rich and famous when there are so many black men who are poor and do not have the financial ability to defend themselves and are shafted by the legal system every day. Why are the people concerned about Jackson having being shafted by the justice system when there are so many who need to be defended in public and are being ignored? For me to say he is guilty, I can only go with the evidence I have seen. From that, I say that he is guilty as sin.

[sweetheart]

14. So was gandhi n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Huh? There are well over a million...

black men in jail, many of whom are there thanks to trumped up charges and lousy legal defense.

Jackson just happens to be a celebrity, but I can't see how they would have avoided charging him even if he wasn't, after the allegations and the evidence they have. Celebrity or not and whatever color he chooses to be this year.

Whether or not he's actually guilty of the charges, I don't know and don't really care much. He is guilty of major wierdness, though. although that shouldn't send him away by itself.

[dsc]

13. I don't think these are related

Jackson has publicly stated he sleeps with children and has repeatedly been accused of molestation with at least two settlements. I think any prosecutor would have brought this case no matter the race of the defendant. That said, I have no earthly idea if he is guilty here or not. I haven't paid attention to the case. I haven't heard any testimony. In short, I neither know, nor really care, if he did it or not.

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. Except that Jackson isn't a BLACK man

He has made himself cosmetically white.

[KlatooBNikto]

16. In the American racist mythology, he is a black man, period.

[Protagoras]

17. Occams Razor seems appropriate here

He's uber rich and popular. That's why the media is looking at him. If OJ had never been born...MJ sleeping with little boys would still be a giant media circus. The attention from THAT part of the media makes allegations of child molestation sensational AND necessary to act upon in the eyes of the legal system...not sure it requires any connection to race or past cases.

If MJ were Ethopian, Chinese, Irish, or Italian...being a mega rich pop star, after sleeping with little boys it would still be a media circus.

If the Media is splashing "FAMOUS FREAK SLEEPS WITH BOYS" all over the screen...the police have to appear to be investigating..regardless again.

I can't pretend to absolutely know what's happened with the jurors or the police or the judge...but I know a lot of people who've grown up listening to and watching MJ and I never had the sense that their view of him really had anything to do with his race.

He made himself an utterly unique freak...free of race and gender...and I think that his fame and infamy are far more about his personal bizarre behavior than anything past or present in race relations.

Just my view of course.

[GirlinContempt]

18. Thank you for that

[NMMNG]

19. If Michael Jackson is found guilty

It will be because the jury thinks he is guilty, not because he is black.


When he was making millions and millions (if not billions) of dollars singing and making movies did his race ever get brought up? No, it never did. He just did his thing and collected all the money from blacks, whites and everybody else. Now when he's on trial for multiple counts of child abuse...again...it becomes a race issue. This is BS!

I say he takes the verdict he gets and lives with it.