Part Eleven - Family First

At this point i have a lot of trouble believing people that were around Michael and when i’m honest about it i only trust 3 people that were in his life. I think you can all guess who this three people are. Even though they are not adults yet they are way more mature than most of the adults that surounded Michael.

Michael already learned early in is childhood that he could not trust adults. He learned that even before he and his brothers started performing. We’ve all heard Michael talk about the beatings/abuse that he and his brothers and sisters had to deal with in their childhood. We also must not forget the cheating that went on in that household. It’s in no way my intention to Judge the people who are involved but it seeing and living things like this does leave scars.

Since Michael learned so young already that adults couldn’t be trusted it even got worse. When he started to perform with his brothers he counted on his brothers to be there for eachother and protect one and other. But as time went by and the brothers, sisters and Michael got older and true love came for some of them, the brothers and sisters started to leave home and start a family by themselves. Somehow that hurted Michael and he maybe even felt betrayed by his own brothers and sisters who went to live their lives, after all being the boy he was, living the live he and his family did, his brothers and sisters were the only ones who made him feel safe and i can imagne that in his eyes it could have felt as they abandend him. I’m not saying that this is how Michael felt, i just think it’s a possibility he felt like that. One thing that got drilled into Michael one way or another was that no matter what “Family is family and the Family always comes first”.

As Michael’s fame got bigger and bigger we noticed some pretty strange things happening . It really doesn’t matter that much if the things we heard were true or just rumours. But it sure made a lot of fans toes curl. I don’t know how the brothers felt when Michael dicided it was time for him to move on and take his career to another level. After all his brothers and sisters move don while growing older so why shouldn’t he do the same. But the thing is that Michael was presured a lot to keep performing with his brothers, even when he didn’t want to. After all Michael learned as a young child that “Family always comes first”. From the point were i’m standing it looks like a blackmail game, not really blackmail of course but emotional blackmail like “we made you now you do something back”, or a thing like “if it wasn’t for me you wouldn’t be where you are today”.

Some even said that Michael had to be gratefull for what his father did for him and the brothers. But does this mean he has to be gratefull all his life and for that does he have to do all his life showing this. I mean let’s get real you can’t spent all your life doing that. The rest of the brothers were allowed to move on and as far as i know they weren’t treated like Michael was. Michael showed he was grateful always, even when he was on tour. Just think about the Jackson 5 medley he always included in his concerts. Now if that isn’t a sign for being gratefull than i don’t know what is.

We all know that Michael some familymembers asked Michael for money a lot of times, and most of the times he give it. But there were also times he said no to that or that he would make sure these familymembers got the money in another way. And sometimes i just don’t understand some family members. Don’t get me wrong i don’t wanna bash them..no way. But there are just some things that i think don’t add up.

If you take a look at Janet. She used to be his favourite sister as far as i know. A lot of people are talking about how Joe started her musical career. But the truth is Michael financed it, not directly but he did. Joe sold his half of the Encino Home to Michael and he invested that money to get Janet’s career going. During the trail if i remember correctly she was only there twice, i don’t know why that was maybe she had a busy agenda at that time, who knows what that reason was. Than after Michael left the USA they didn’t stay much in touch with eachother. That is if we have to believe what we hear and read during interviews Janet give. And if they weren’t in touch how could they be planning interventions at any time. What kind of interventions did she mean and when where the planned? That picture sure doesn’t get clear. Like i said before the entertainment twists and turns a lot and will do that to fit things for their own benifit. I’m not saying Janet is the one who twist and turned things i’m pointing my fingers towards the once who edit the interviews. I wished Janet would have done the same things during those interviews and took her own camera too…especially after what all happend to her brother Michael.

At this point i feel LaToya is the one of the brothers and sisters standing up most for Michael. Maybe many of you don’t agree with me because of things she did in the past. But she made her opinion about what she felt happend to Michael very clear from day one. Yes i know, she has said terrible things about Michael. Yes i know she has been caught lying a lot. Yes she did sell interviews to tabloids shortly after Michael died. I’m not saying i like the things she did or that i like the things she said. But regardles of what she all did and said that doesn’t mean she is wrong about what she said from day one.

Than one of the brothers. After Michael died we could see Jermaine every other day on Larry King Live. Michael’s fans feel he’s the one that was very jalous of Michael and after Michael died he saw his chance to step into the spotlight. Jermaine isn’t very much liked by the fans because of things that happend in the past. He once wrote a song about Michael and i for one didn’t like it one bit. For me it fel the was slandering Michael. Than there is this rumour about a book he was supose to write with somebody else and the word was he would tell in that book that Michael wasn’t the person as we think he was. But so far this so called book is still what it is just a rumour because until this day we haven’t seen a thing that says see Jermaine was really planning that. Also people are wondering about some contacts Jermaine has. He seems pretty close to Thome Thome and one way or another many connections Michael had with people are involved with Jermaine too.

We’ve heard severall family members complain that they were kept away from Michael by his security. We don’t know if it’s true or not. But the strange thing is most of them saw Michael back in May 2009 when their parents celebrated their wedding anniversery. We also know Joe had a meeting with Michael about a new tour with the brothers, wich as far as i know Michael turned that down. There is talk about Joe being seen and heard at the gates of Michael’s home screaming he wanted and needed money, Jermaine having an argument with Michael just days before Michael got killed. So when i hear stuff like that i’m like..okay so security kept them away..maybe that’s why Michael or somebody else give security orders to keep them away. Also we must not forget that during the last weeks of his life Michael was very busy to prepaire for the O2 shows. At a busy time like that you want to focus on that and you don’t want to be bothered by other people that only seem to be there when they want something from you.

I know there is much much more to talk about when it comes down to Michael’s family and the way they all behaived, not only now that Michael is gone but also while Michael was still alive. I mean have you ever heard that if you feel your brother is murdered that you take things from the place you think he was killed. Or would you do everything in your power to make sure the house stays like it was around the time of the murder? And what about that tribute concert Jermaine was planning for his brother. One day he says the family is in on it the next thing we read is that other members of the family have no idea about it. What about all that talk about interventions?

Don’t get me wrong please, because i’m not saying his family are bad people. Or that they are in any way involved in Michael’s murder. What i wrote down about them isn’t ment to harm them, offend them or bash them in any kind of way. I just find some of their actions questionable..that’s all. Because from what i can see this is a family that keeps emotions inside the family’s walls. I’m not implying that there was no love in the family for eachother. They might not have liked things about eachother, after all they are human just like you and me. And the way their family works is a way that it works in a lot of other family's too. The only differenc is that those family aren't being watched by the whole world and the Jacksons are.