<standing ovation!> That was great!
First of all, I had thought he was under some sort of gag order not to talk to the press. Maybe this’ll get his ass thrown in jail at last?
Silly me, such things don’t happen to people like him.
As for MJ’s comments, I would end up using the entire Board’s worth of rolleyes to convey what I feel about it.
When I read the thread title my first thought was:
“Race card huh, which one?”
Unclviny
Meek, that was truly spectacular.
I suppose that when I wrote the OP, I was taking Jackson far more seriously than I needed to.
Nice one, meek!
How and when did he piss Quincy off?
I’d noticed lately that whenever Jones gets a question about Jackson he just deflects it with comments to the effect that he doesn’t want to get involved in the negativity, whereas in the past he would speak of Jackson’s genius and imply that his oddness was of little consequence compared with the wonderful music he brought into the world.
I’d wondered about the shift and just put it down to Jackson’s having finally become indefensible.
Quincy Jones tried to tell Jackson that his peculiar relationships with little boys would be his downfall. Michael to him to go fuck little boys…I mean himself.
Meek, you are a genius. I loved those lyrics 
As far as Jackson being like Ali or Mandela, I say no way, no how. Mandela knew full well that he would be tossed in prison. Ali knew full well that his career was at risk of being destroyed. They had the guts to speak their piece about things that were important to them and take the consequences/risk. Even if you chose to disagree with them, you have to give them this much - they stood by what they said, come what may. It’s called having courage. Jackson just wants to keep playing his nasty little games without paying the price.
Stuffy, thanks.
I just had a frightening thought.
Suppose Jacko goes to prison. There’s no way in hell he’d be put in general population, or really anywhere but solitary confinement. Solitary confinement, so I hear, tends to make people go a bit insane. So supposing Jack gets out of prison alive, he’s going to come out even weirder than he already is. My guess is, he’ll go straightaway to the plastic surgeon and request to be covered in scales.
I still think that if his conviction is handed down, the LA cops had better be prepared for sympathetic rioting, just like with the racially-charged O.J. Simpson case.
If Jacko is convicted, there’ll be zombies dancing and shuffling in the streets moaning, “ne’re oun doo getchoo, ungggghhh… demons on emery nide…”
Chimpanzees will be flinging poo everywhere… oh, the humanity.
He’ll be put in special population. Depending on which prison that is, Charles Manson could be in the same unit. I can only guess the results.