Local NAACP salutes uneducated junkie & child molester with no local ties whatsoever

Michael Jackson never held an ordinary job, didn't go to college, had little formal education, molested children, was a drug addict, paid surgeons to transform him from an amiable young black man to a white one who came to resemble one of his Thriller zombies, pretended that he fathered his fair-haired and suspiciously white children, allegedly dressed as a woman to visit gay dive bars, and hadn't recorded a good song since the early 1980's.

Yet local NAACP President Chris Smitherman declared "It is very important that all of us to reject the negative forces that attempt to rewrite Michael Jackson's history as anything less than the best artist who ever lived".

Hey Chris: Thriller was a mediocre album. It only has 2-3 good songs on it, and the rest are corny ballads. If Thiller is such a fantastic edge-to-edge album, why didn't you play it beginning-to-end in the background during your recent radio show?

Jackson was probably the best child entertainer of all time, but as an adult, his creative output paled compared to his hero James Brown. It paled compared to Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc. The weight of his music is arguably no greater than that of his sister Janet, who 20 years ago recorded a solid string of hits and aside from the staged wardrobe malfunction has led a much more respectable life.

Smitherman exploits "history" at every opportunity -- everything happening today in Cincinnati is somehow a repeat of the Civil Rights era, despite Smitherman being much too young to have experienced any of that firsthand. And for someone who makes a living by playing certain tried-and-true roles, why is he so quick to profess his support for Jackson, a man whose race-changing cosmetic surgery and trio of pseudo-adopted white children was the confused act of an individual who suffered extraordinary mental illnesses? Whose sex with boys should have doomed him to decades in San Quentin?