Good Bye Michael We Will Miss You.

It has happened... what those of us in our late forties and early fifties who were fans of Motown and Michael Jackson dreaded, the death of our hero has come Michale Joseph Jackson died today on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles at the age of 50.

We are of course bombarded with information regarding the negative issues that he had to confront in his later years , and now the word Icon will be over used by every news cast on television but he was much more then just an Icon.

The Michael Jackson that we knew was the little boy who revolutionized the way America and the world respected and recognized young black talent he and his brothers put the sounds of black youth on the map.

Michale Jackson of the late sixties and the seventies captured the hearts of America and especially black America , Black Americans didn't have many celebrities on television then, and if a person of color was on television momma would get on the phone and make a call to family and friends to tell them the Jackson 5 or Diana Ross and the Supremes were on television.

The Jackson 5 were the first R&B Soul group to have their very own cartoon and the first black cast cartoon. Michale Jackson was was a lighting bolt of energy and talent that had not been seen since Sammy Davis Jr to whom Michale paid homage shortly before Davis death in 1990.


Thriller Album Sold 26 million



Bad Album Sold 8 Million

I can go on with the same info that the news casters or Wikipedia can offer but I choose to remember the positive gifts that Michael brought to the world , such as his USA for Africa humanitarian out reach and many other philanthropic charities he has been apart of for many years.

It is hard for me to continue writing because of the sorrow that I feel , and I am in a state of shock it is hard for me to take in.

I will miss him forever.

Iran Showing Signs of Possible Progress

As hard as it may seem to believe even with the reported seven dead and numerous people who have been injured in the alleged voter fraud uprising that this may be a sign of possible progress for the middle east. After President Obama's Cairo Egypt speech it was questioned as to how it would play out across the Muslim countries in the region now we see that there are those who want the same democracy that the west enjoys and some have credited Obama as being the western leader who is affecting change.

The right wing extremist in our country has tried to use this to their Obama hating advantage even to the point of saying that it is Obama's fault with exception to any thing that would be a positive out come...then of course the right will take the credit, even now Ari Fleischer former Bush White House Press Secretary is setting up some wacky response by stating that (only if it is a positive outcome) that it was Bush's hardliner approach to Iran that caused this voter uprising.

Ari Fleischer emailed fellow Post reporter Glenn Kessler before any results had been issued in Iran’s hotly-contested presidential election to give credit to his former boss for the “reformists’ surge” there. “[O]ne of the reasons there is a substantial reform movement in Iran — particularly among its young people — is because of George W. Bush’s tough policies,” Fleischer wrote. Direct quote from Think Progress Web Blog By Ben Armbruster on Jun 15th, 2009.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/fleischer-bush-spin-iran/

Accusing George Bush of being one of the most disliked men in the Muslim world would not be far fetched, he is despised by many in the Mid east region.