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Black & Right is an opinion site, and not just mine. The opinions of readers are just as integral a part of the success of this site as are any expressed by myself. With that, I don't want people to think they can't bash Michael Jackson here if they are so inclined. I choose not to.

My reason to push back has nothing to do with musical adoration or cult of personality. Michael Jackson was weird, and as far as I know (with my limited knowledge of the law), weird is not illegal. Michael Jackson came from a fucked up family environment and if any of you could have come out of that totally sane, props. Michael Jackson didn't swindle billions of dollars from the unsuspecting or pass laws that confiscated hard-earned money from the public. Believe it or not, there was a time when most of us justifiably accepted Michael Jackson as The King of Pop.

It's being said that Michael Jackson was a recluse. Looking at all the leeches that've crawled out of the woodwork to latch onto his assets and children, even charging $25 to attend his memorial, can you blame the man for trying to stay clear of motivated adults and choosing to hang with children who didn't want anything from him aside from his company?

And again, Michael Jackson was found not guilty of pedophilia. Those who accused him, took the money and ran. If any celebrity did that to my kids, it wouldn't be about money, unless that was initial motivation. It would be about revenge, justice, the ruining of the career that allowed him to do it, and making sure he'd never be able to do that to anyone else's kid.

While Quincy Jones may have seen it all before (and had seen what it had done to brilliant careers), why didn't he do something? I would've.

Let me take that back. Quincy Jones DID do something: he cashed his checks.

What disgusts me by all those who once made Jackson the brunt of jokes for years (and are now seeking to profit off him), is that I've never seen so many perfect people before in my life. We all know what they say about people who live in glass houses, and in Hollywood,  those houses are paper thin. What is Peggy Lipton going to say about Quincy Jones when he dies? How many extra freelancers is TMZ going to have to lay off once the Jackson story dies down? In the meantime, so many are going to latch on and try to take as much of Michael's hard-earned money as they can.

Are you alright with that? Obviously there's nothing that can be done about it, but if I can call attention to the scum suckers who were treated very well by Michael Jackson, and now choose to bare their souls, or those who he distanced himself from and now want theirs, that I will do.

And until Michael Jackson is finally laid to rest, I will continue to give this unfortunate man the respect he deserves.