One thing that impressed me is that Earth Song, while little known in the U.S., sold more than 1 million copies in the U.K., making it his #1 hit there, and 3 million singles worldwide. The tributes pouring in from fans around the world on that single YouTube site are an incredible testament to Michael’s deep-down goodness and ability to ignite the flame of goodness in others.

If, as you say, God injected Michael with a huge portion of the “It Factor”, how was Michael supposed to handle it? He was born to a father who seemed to display no conscience about the ways he drove and would ultimately drive Michael! When asked about this treatment of his son, Michael’s father replied “He’s crying about my treatment of him all the way to the bank!” Well, going to the bank obviously didn’t solve the problems Michael had! To come into this world with such a mission unfolding within him, wouldn’t you agree that being driven so hard should have been matched with being cared for as much? This might have given Michael a chance to put things into a better perceptive and balance from the beginning. Michael was thrown off balance before he even knew what balance was!

Deepak Chopra is among the few who have publicly given us a more humane look at Michael. He takes into serious and real consideration the treatment Michael received as a child from his father and an environment that only saw his talent and took little notice of the child and what his needs were.

Deepak spoke of the negative messages Michael received as a child; the ones that get locked into your DNA, creating in him an inability to live peaceably within his own skin. Making music and being on stage became his only place of refuge. On stage he could be whatever he created or imagined he could be and no one could touch him. When the judgment came down, it was what he wanted it to be, not what some one else said it was!

Genius is it’s own two-edged sword and few handle it well. Couple that with the people around you not having a clue of how to help nurture and grow you into a well adjusted integrated person. How’s having a dad with dollars signs in his eyes and oh, how many people did Michael carry on his back and for how long, a whole family! Just the other day at the BET Awards, Michael’s father, after being asked about his son death, plugged his new record company. Way to go Dad!

I don’t put the entire fault on others for Michael’s choices, because I do believe that we have a responsibility for our actions, but I have to wonder, when did Michael ever have the chance to fall in love with himself!

In spite of all this and in the face of it, Michael Jackson still knocked nations off their feet as he turned again and again to music, a trusted companion. He sang and dance his way into our hearts, into our DNA and into history forever!

We know how fickle we are as people; we both love and loathe stars. Some of us can’t wait until they mess up so we can bring them down a peg and say, I told you he wasn’t all that! We want what they have without having a clue of the price they pay everyday. The media has accused Michael of many things, but are we to believe them? They’ll hunt you down and damn near kill you for a story, true or false! Would you want your fate to be in their hands?

The media and others will do what they do best in the coming days, much of which won’t be good or enlightening, but I hope that enough of us will hold the balance and declare Who Are We To Judge?

Michael Jackson was all that and a bag of chips and nothing that anyone says can change that! Michael was a mixture of genius and human. He would have almost had to be two people to handle it all. Why don’t we just celebrate the mysterious reality of this and what it must have been like trying to embody all that!

From his genius, Michael gave us joy, excitement; thrilling moments, innovative music and he changed the face and sound of what we knew. From his pain, we can learn lessons.

Michael picked us up, danced us into exhaustion and in spite of his torment found in the depths of his spirit the clarity and strength to write and sing this song.

I’m Starting With The Man In
The Mirror,

I’m Asking Him To Change
His Ways

No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place

Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That Change!

You Gotta Get It Right, While
You Got The Time

‘Cause When You Close Your
Heart Then You Close Your Mind

He’d been so many places in his life and time, sung a lot of songs and made some bad rhymes, he lived his life on stages with thousands watching, now he’s gone and I’m singing my song for you, Michael, “I Stand For You!”