Lynched publicly even after his death? The burning questions of the Black Community about Michael Jackson.
Dozens of people have asked the FJN to address this controversy that makes headlines in the world, about the exceptionally cruel way in which mass media is treating a black personality known globally.
Here is our press release.
Dear friends of FJN!
We will present both your opinions, your justified anger and your questions, as well as our analysis of this drama in the lines that follow.
Your questions and your opinions:
Why now?
“…At such an urgent time, when the media’s focus should be, obviously, to remind people every day, that the melting of the Antarctic glaciers threatens millions of lives on the Planet; at a time when Diesel particles have been shown to poison and kill hundreds of thousands each year by their pollution; when we are learning today that the violence of industrial looting in the Congo has killed 12 million since the 1990s; when military drones kill entire families gathered for weddings; when USA police shoot to kill, 365 days a year, young blacks in the streets of America; when it was established by human rights associations that thousands of children of immigrants were abused by the services of ICE…Why do we see white American adults,men and women privileged since birth crying shamelessly on television and make an incessant media hype, for (forgive the expression of this reader) “touch-pee” stories that go back to their childhood?…It shows the moral decadence in the United States seems to have reached its climax, demonstrating both indifference and total arrogance towards the problems of the world … “
“…This time around, it is to lynch the memory of Michael Jackson that white adults come to shed tears in front of the world … “
“… It seems that the United States of America never finishes to finish the legacy of Michael Jackson, the most famous black celebrity of his generation …”
“… Oprah Winfrey, the richest black woman in the world of TV, was asked to make this public trial in her televised show with prosecution witnesses at the helm, and of course, no one for the defense.
No one never needed defense for a lynching …. “
“… The Black community is entitled to ask why so much relentless attack on one character, while there are vital subjects that escape the attention of the high spheres of communication? …”
Michael Jackson, the successor of James Brown, consecrated since his childhood? …
Michael Jackson, the only global singer to have had an impact on children of several successive generations around the world? …
Finally, Michael Jackson, the only artist to have transcended racial differences radically, and incomparably? … “
“…Wait…Was it not the record company, Sony, who dragged Michael Jackson to justice when he said he wanted to open his own label? ..
Is it not Sony, the same record company, who found witnesses to charge that the pop star had abused the trust of minors?
Later, did not it turn out that some of these witnesses admitted to being compromised by a desire for earnings, and pushed by Sony to lie? …
After the death deemed “involuntary” homicide of Michael Jackson, is it not surprising that things resume their course, and that the trial of the most famous dead black man continues more unabated? … “
“… They try so hard to prove to all of us that ‘our angel’ was actually a demon.
Why ?…”
“….For a majority of blacks, the public and continuous crucifixion of Michael Jackson is official racism in the first degree … “
“…The fact that Oprah Winfrey plays in this drama the role of Kapo-or sacrifice priestess- is not surprising. She is the best paid woman, by the White Establishment, who was chosen to set fire on the memory of the Black Angel. She makes millions on sullying the ashes of a Black artist, whom the Whites wanted to keep as a slave since childhood, and who tried to break his chains…Now thanks to the hospices of Sony and Oprah, white men accuse before the cameras a black celebrity, and get the biggest audience in the world …. ” “… The Kashoggi case in comparison did not make so many waves, and despite its explicit violence, this sad murder did not take away the smile of American TV pundits who nevertheless knew the Saudi journalist personally. .. On the other hand, they have to crucify Michael Jackson at all costs …. “
“…Should we see in this affair, a primer, a desire, to provoke confrontation between the Black community in America and in the world, and the White Supremacists? …”
“… Is this an answer to accusations against the Vatican? …”
“….Is this an answer to the trial in Canada about the Native American children abuse and genocide? ..”
“There is no doubt in the eyes of Blacks who dare to speak, that this is an orchestrated campaign of humiliation of the entire Black African community …”
“…In attacking the icon of black music that has crossed all borders, they want to bring us back to a time when lynching blacks in public was a racist amusement in the Southern States. The Black community is not amused. Because the consequences of such lynchings are not unknown to us: police that shoot our children in the back on American streets will now do it with less scruple and scrutiny… “
“….The US seems to be fond of racial stereotypes. Not only Blacks or Latinos but Jews too, are also common targets for ethnic clichés in the United States. It is the country that has promoted the image of Dominique Strauss Kahn as a wicked and debauched Jew, and had him portrayed as a low-ranking criminal on all media in the world….
“….U.S. is the country that has portrayed Bernie Madoff, the ideal Jewish scapegoat, as the symbol of the sub-prime crisis, while none of the big US bankers who caused the biggest economic crisis in modern times, have had to even debate with the courts…
…We see in the US Neo Nazis shout ” Jews will not replace us” and the leader of the ruling party comment that these Neo Nazis are ‘good people’ ….and Oprah mentions the words crime against humanity about…Michael Jackson? Has the world gone mad?…”
FJN says:
As a Human Rights association representing Black Jews, our sensitivity to the problem of racism is doubly sharpened.
Our eyes are not haggard and hazy about it. Even discriminatory nuances and innuendo do not escape us.
Many of you mentioned public lynching, which we also feel describes the public dynamic at hand.
But in our eyes, this goes beyond Michael Jackson.
Every Black person in America is being sent a message, through this openly unfair trial of a dead man who cannot defend himself, every Black person is given a warning of what awaits any Black who challenges the racial status quo in the USA.
This is 2019, the world can see how Blacks and Whites are treated with different standards in the USA, and can see that being world famous does not protect you when you are Black, and may in fact provoke hateful and destructive resentment from racist institutions.
Michael Jackson is a global cultural treasure for the Black community.
Seeing this treasure become prey to the raging flames of racial discourse is certainly not insignificant or innocuous.
It is a political choice, perhaps even geopolitical, which announces a deliberately malicious stand towards the Black world.
FJN calls on our brothers and sisters in the United States and around the world, to denounce this abuse and travesty of justice, and to completely abandon the media types that force these racial stereotypes day and night down the throat of the public.
FJN is in contact with members of the Jackson family, some of whom practice Judaism. We ask them to know that they have many more friends than enemies in the world, and that they have all our support in this ordeal.
Africa never forgets her children.