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Click the photo, which will take you to Karen’s blog page. there, you will be able to feast on her recollection of Michael & his heartfelt dilemma when it came to the celebration of birthdays :-(
Thank you Karen for sharing!
My Birthday wish for you, is not a wish, but a continuous prayer: I’m happy for you, that you’re finally @ peace! I pray you heard the words, "Well done, my good & faithful servant..." & that they were music to your ears! My dear Angelman remain forever happy, in the company of the Angels, around God's throne - singing & dancing w/eternal joy – you, the creation - becoming one w/your Creator!
Thank You & God Bless You Miss Katherine!
AnMarie
The attack on the USDA's former Georgia director of Rural Development, Ms. Shirley Sherrod, by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is the most recent example of the dangers that come from reactionary sound-bite politics being put in the context of race.
Breitbart does not take responsibility for releasing the video clip, but he blames the media for blowing the situation out of proportion. Additionally, he admitted that he did not see the full tape until this week after he had placed the editing edited clips on the Internet.
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I just love this ‘penned’ phrase: “…reactionary sound-bite politics…” This isn’t to get political on anyone, but isn’t what this gentleman did to Ms. Sherrod, the same treatment given to Michael by the media? They took any ‘little’ thing he said or did & blew it out of proportion; removed things from its original context & added their two-cents to encourage a negative perception. Isn’t this what Bashir did??! He couldn’t destroy Michael’s soul, so instead, he set out to destroy Michael’s heart. His ‘sound-bite’ game cost MJ his life.
But, Michael continued to love, anyway!
“Through his prolific body of work, advocacy initiatives and multi-million dollar charity efforts, Michael Jackson raised international awareness and support for some of the most complex and timeless issues confronting the human condition. AIDS, cancer, famine, homelessness, gang violence, racism, totalitarianism, environmental degradation, . . . A deeper analysis of Michael Jackson’s work reveals an individual with a burning concern for improving the lives of the disadvantaged and persecuted around the world...Global events in the weeks surrounding Jackson’s death alone directly mirror the complex problems for which he attempted to raise international awareness. In Iran and before the world’s eyes, civilian demonstrations were squashed and innocent victims like the young Neda Agha-Soltan brutally murdered by instruments of a totalitarian state. In Washington, D.C., a white supremacist motivated by pure hate attempted a killing spree at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, murdering an African American security guard in his rampage. In North Korea, U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were unjustly sentenced to twelve years of hard labor to merely serve as international bargaining chips for an evil dictator. . . How are we now missing this message when it is even more crucial for it to be absorbed into the public mind? Not only do Michael Jackson’s cries of awakening continue to be ignored but his reputation continues to be smeared...”
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Thank You Matt!
“I hate to see suffering, I hate to see people in need and I feel God gave me a gift and I have to use it responsibly by giving back and I’ll do it until I have pennies left or the good lord calls me home.”
-Michael Jackson
