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I'm With Michael!

Todd Gray, photographer and author of “Before He Was King,” a tabletop book which documents the years he spent touring with The Jacksons from 1979 to 1983, shares some of his most intimate moments with the late King of Pop.

 

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and another thing if he liked white women so much why didn't he ever stay with one even when he had a chance to. his desire must not have been that strong. diana rose broke his heart when she got married he said it. thats why he couldn't walk her down the ilse. maybe just maybe he never really recover.

Posted at 9:09PM on October 28th 2009 by bb

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even though mj may have only list white women as the women he liked he revealed in his will who his true love was a black woman, diana rose. even though i don't think he should of listed those white women i think he did that just to please certain folks around him. but the only woman i think he ever really loved was diana rose he wanted her to be his baby's momma. what more can you say even after all these years he listed her. thats love.

Posted at 8:52PM on October 28th 2009 by bb

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Well the problem was that Michael obviously didn't want Black women around him or a sister girl to keep it real with him.....which is what the previous posters pointed out. I hear everyday people blaming the doctors, the concert promoters, even Michael's family for his death...but when are we going to point the finger at Michael Jackson himself. No one forced him to do prescription drugs, he did that to himself. I'm sorry but Dr. Murray was supplying what the junkie ordered.....Michael killed himself plain and simple.

Posted at 9:25AM on October 28th 2009 by Darryl

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I luv mj so much!!! I miss him terribly...I wish he's still here pleasing the crowd like he always do..."there's nothing you can't do that can be done, if we raise our voice as one"

Posted at 5:43AM on October 28th 2009 by empi

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You have to remember Micheal Jackson was a human being. He was not perfect. No one is. He did not try to be an angel in his later years. The man didn't have to tell yall everything. If that was the case, he'd have to tell you when he shi_, ate and said boo. He had golden talent. What he needed was someone to keep it real for him. He didn't have anyone to keep him down to earth. That's what the Black women is for. If he would of had a sister friend to keep it real for him instead of yes people around him, he would still be here.

Posted at 8:39PM on October 27th 2009 by reality

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I read that same book Corrine and I have to admit it did bother me than the only women he named as desirable where all white women. Also it has always bothered me how Michael blantaly would lie. On that Oprah special he said he only had 2 nose jobs. Obviously Michael has had multiple surgeries. On the Bashir special he first said that he and Blanket's mother had a relationship and she didn't want to be in the public, then later on in the special he said that Blanket's mother was a surrogate and he never met her and she never met him (go back and watch it) Michael always claimed to be a vegetarian but it's revealed that he ate KFC, chicken, and fish...so MJ was a well documented liar.

Posted at 5:01PM on October 27th 2009 by Crystal

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I luv MJ's music as much as the next person but I'm not blinded by the fact that I think alot of the things we suspect are actually true. Do I think he's a great artist: Yes! Do I think he molested those kids: Yes, Do I think he bleached his skin and did not have vitiligo: Yes, Do I think he's the biggest artist of all time: Yes......so those are my conflicting feeligs about MJ.

Posted at 4:57PM on October 27th 2009 by Cherri

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And to add to that I did think it was awfully strange that MJ said he only wanted to help kids but why is it that most of the kids that went on tour with him and that he took on these vacations where little white boys. M. Culkin, and the 2 boys that accused him of molestation. I never saw MJ rally around little black girls and boys....I just always thought that was suspicious.

Posted at 4:48PM on October 27th 2009 by COrrine

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I hate to admit being a Michael Jackson lover myself, but I had to come to the realization that Michael had serious issues and definitely a color complex. When I read that MJ Tapes book by that rabbi, every woman that Michael mentioned saying how he was in love with them and he would only date a pure woman was Caucasian. Brooke Shields, Tatum O'Neal, Princess Diana, Lisa Marie Preseley, and Debbie Rowe....obviously Michael didn't think highly of black women other than his mother. So I continued to agree that he is one of the most incredible artist of our time but I will no longer support his music.

Posted at 4:47PM on October 27th 2009 by COrrine

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I couldn't agree more Davis! I'll give him credit for his talent but that's it. Michael didn't have anythinig to do with black people until his ass was caught with his hands down those white boys pants and then he shows up at the NAACP awards, and then when Sony wouldn't back that whack ass Invincible album, he's in Harlem screaming Mottola is a racist!! Give me a break... Mike wouldn't have stepped his ass in Harlem in his Thriller and Bad days. Only when he was accused of molestation did MJ come running back to black people, and like O.J. and countless other brothers that seperate theirsevles from us once they make it, we always take their sorry ass back....just like with Mike.

Posted at 4:01PM on October 27th 2009 by Theresa

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I just don't get why black people continue to praise this man. This is a man who clearly did not like the skin he was in. Michael did everything to his face and skin to erase his African-American features...then he married not 1 but 2 white women, and purposely did not biologically father his kids out of fear they would come out looking black. Did you really believe that those 3 kids where actually his?? Yet I see black people pissing and moaning on t.v. all day long about MJ. Please give me a break.

Posted at 3:58PM on October 27th 2009 by Davis

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The "REAL" King! RIP MJ!!!! Some might says "Elvis" but I never seen a black man or woman pass out at any of his shows. Michael had fans falling out in China, Austraila, all the way to Africa! Michael Jackson out sold him on one album "Thriller." To put the cherry on top...he banged his daughter!!!!! LoL Did someone say "The Beatles?" Ummm...let me help you out here....! Michael owns the rights to their music. Thank you! The real King!!!!! MJ.

Posted at 3:51PM on October 27th 2009 by BigSmooov in DC

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Gorgeous photos, like I remember him. I'm more of an "Off the Wall" fan over Thriller, but both are masterpieces.

Posted at 1:36PM on October 27th 2009 by April

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kitten your so ignorant, Ive seen your comments before always nasty & negative. I'm not sure why essence keep printing your crap...Sissy or not he will always be better & more successful than you, is that you hate so much?

Posted at 11:03AM on October 27th 2009 by aj

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he is still a sissy - light or dark.

Posted at 10:42AM on October 27th 2009 by kitten

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