Hello, I have sat back and I have read and listened to all the comments and predictions about Michael Jackson, his children, their fate, his mother, Debbie Rowe and Joe and Kathryn Jackson. Let me first begin by saying, I have followed the career of the Jackson family from the very beginning. I adored this family, not because of who they were or what they had, but because I enjoyed their music. Music has a very calming affect and a great healing quality about it, as well as a great passion of mine.

When I first heard the news about Michael Jackson I was in denial, because it just didn' seem real to me, but as reality set in, ironically the first thing that came to my mind was that I was glad my father was not alive to hear this, because he loved Michael so much that this of all things surely would have killed him, my father would have been 70 years old this year had he not had died nearly five years ago. That was the kind of following Michael Jackson truly had, people of all ages and color, he touched everyone, he was truly an amazing man and entertainer.

The next thing that came to mind was,"Oh God now all the rumors are going to come out". It is sad to say that not only did he have no peace in life but his name and memory has become even more a circus in death. And then for people to have the nerve to become his judge and jury. America I ask is this what living in this country has allowed us to do, to insult to disrespect, to dehumanize a person and their memories. Let's get real about a few things that cannot be denied, and surely will be a fact and not fiction. One day his children will undoubtedly get a chance to read things over the Internet and in Libraries and newspapers about their father, is this what we really what them to see, how hateful and inhumane we as a people are really. Isn't this the sort of thing the very thing that Michael fought so hard to shield and protect his children from.

Do we really want these children to grow up and run away or turn their backs on America to another country because people in America are heartless and don't care for one another and don't stick together or have any sort of love for one another? Hum is it possible what other countries think about Americans has some merit to it? I surely hope that I as well as others can truly answer NO to those questions. Come on, a man is dead here and his family is in shock, they are grieving, his children are alone and afraid, do we not have compassion, or is it all about the money.

Let's talk about money for a few minutes here, and I can tell you this as well does not make me very happy to say nor to think, but once again Let's Get Real. Their are vultures all around, We say Michael is dead and there are those that hear the chiming of dollar signs. Look what ever Joe Jackson motives are from the reports and comments I have heard, If there is anyone in the world that don't think this man loved his son then you have a problem. There has been things said such as he lived off his children and Michael disliked and hated his father. The real deal is because of his father and his drive and determination Michael and his brothers became very famous. And because of the strictness they endured they were able to over come a lot of obstacles,

Don't get me wrong I am not saying Joe was right or wrong I am saying that he appears to have done the best he could by trying to raise his children and keep them together, he may have gone about this the wrong way, but who hasn't made mistakes in their lives. Have anyone truly took a clear look at the movie, The Jackson an American Family, did you really look at it, because I did, and let's get real, here is what I saw. I saw a man and a woman married with six children and a wife that was pregnant with Michael Jackson, I seen a father struggling trying to work in the factory and do music gigs on the side trying to feed and support his wife and kids.

I seen that some years later after Michael was born that as a young child at the age of six appear to have some animosity towards his father so much to the point he took his shoe and threw it at the mans head. Now let's stop there for a minute, where does that come from, well we can guess why he reacted that way towards Joe, could it had been that Joe ruled his home with a iron fist, there has been many that say yes, but please let us not forget Kathryn was there at all times for this, yet we seem to let her slide. NOT!

Let me say this to you I am a 44 year old woman and mother, and I am divorced and currently engaged to a great GOD fearing and loving man. There is no way my child would have endured that sort of treatment from her father nor anyone else, yet Kathryn seemed to have just dealt with it and silently cried for her children. WHAT!. By all, definition of what we look at as child abuse today for children with their parents, I and my brothers and sisters would have been classified as abused. NOT! Let me say this my parents gave us licks when we deserved it and it did not make me crazy enough to throw something at thing, yet it made me a better person who wanted my education and who fought to have something in life and become someone, it also made me the mother I am today. My daughter is sixteen year as old, and I made the decision to try and talk and explain things to her rather than the old methods of putting my hands on her because I did not want to teach her violence, for all that I learned from my parents and the way they brought me up, I never once hated them or wished any harm on them, rather I decided to just do things different.

My daughter is a junior in High-School and currently holds a 3.846 GPA, I don't have the normal teenage drama with her, regarding boys and fast little girls, and I thank GOD for that, rather she is very much into going to church and she herself finds herself giving out sound minded advice to so many kids who has befriended her and seem to have these teen-age problems with their parents and or boys or girls. My point with all of this is we all make choices and if we are to say Joe Jackson was wrong, let us all be real and give some of the blame to Kathryn as well since it seems she was an enabler in this whole treatment of all of her children, not just Michael. And let me also say if Michael had a problem with his father then that was Michael's fight and his feeling not ours. It seems the world want to keep the whole thing going when really those feelings should have died with Michael, no matter how he felt, I will never believe that Michael did not love his father, not the man I have followed for so many years, not a man that cared so much for children and for so many others.

But he also dealt with it in his own way this was his fight not ours and they were his feeling not ours. I am sure we all have members of our family that we too much don't care for, but again the fight is ours not others.Now Let's get Real about Debbie. This to is a very hurtful and sad subject with me, but let me first say this, Debbie was suppose to have been Michaels friend for about 30 years, yet have any of you read word for word what Michael had put in his will. I quote, he said his ex-wife "Debbie was omitted from his will. Don't sound like to me that their friendship continued, some where along the line it died

Lastly let me say this Michael will NEVER, NEVER die to me as well as to many others. I just hope that his family and children find some peace and a easy way in dealing with all of this

Respectfully

Spandel