rasa belum terlambat nak ucapkan happy new year untuk semua
may 2010 brings you the best of everything that life can offer
be kind... be forgiving & be grateful
wishing you a happy & prosperous year ahead
God bless us all
Korang nak dgr n download lagu sample dr Michael Jackson ft. Lenny Kravitz? lagu ni dikatakan dicomposed ntuk album invicible. sedap jugak lagu ni. bwh ni linknya....
Korang nak dgr n download lagu sample dr Michael Jackson ft. Lenny Kravitz? lagu ni dikatakan dicomposed ntuk album invicible. sedap jugak lagu ni. bwh ni linknya....
Saturday, 2 January 2010
FBI File Reveals Attempt to Convict Jackson with Racist Law
Documents contained in Michael Jackson's FBI file show that the LAPD tried to prosecute the star under the same legislation used in the past to smear black luminaries such as Jack Johnson and Chuck Berry.
Records show that the LAPD contacted the FBI on 7th September 1993 to ask whether the bureau would assist in the prosecution of Michael Jackson under the Mann Act.
The Mann Act, also known as the 'White Slavery Act', was introduced in 1910. Allowing officers to make arrests on the vague premise of 'immoral behaviour', the law was frequently used to smear black men, particularly those who consorted with white women.
Jack Johnson, the world's first black Heavyweight Boxing Champion, was the first person to be prosecuted under the act. In fact, Geoffrey C Ward writes in his book 'Unforgivable Blackness' that the potential to smear Johnson had been one of the primary motivating factors behind the introduction of the law.
Johnson was viewed by the press and the establishment as a black man who didn't know his place. Not only was Johnson a black world champion more than 50 years before segregation was lifted, but he flaunted his success in a society which demanded that he be humble. He wore expensive clothes and jewellery and invested his money in a fleet of luxurious automobiles, a hobby for which he was repeatedly punished by white policemen who issued him with undeserved speeding tickets.
But what riled the establishment more than anything was that Johnson consorted with white women. Johnson was often accompanied on his travels by prostitutes, but so were the majority of his white contemporaries.
In 1913 Johnson was prosecuted under the Mann Act for 'transporting a female across the state line for immoral purposes'. None of his white contemporaries who also travelled with prostitutes were arrested or charged with similar crimes.
Johnson's alleged victims had travelled with him willingly and admitted it under oath. Moreover, the trips in question had taken place long before the Mann Act was even introduced. However, an all white jury convicted him regardless.
Years later the Mann Act was also used to sabotage the career of black musician Chuck Berry.
In 1959 Berry met a 14 year old waitress in El Paso and asked her to work as a hat-check girl in his restaurant. The girl agreed and he drove her from El Paso to St Louis on his way back from a concert.
On this flimsy premise Berry was arrested for 'transporting an underage girl for immoral purposes'. He was convicted under the Mann Act and sentenced to three years in prison.
In the same year Berry's white copycat Elvis Presley began openly dating Priscilla Beaulieu, a 14 year old girl. Furthermore, Scotty Moore's biography of Presley asserts that prior to his involvement with Beaulieu, the star had been dating an even younger girl.
Ergo, in 1913 the Mann Act was used to convict a black boxer whose only 'crime' was to indulge in the same behaviour as his white conemporaries. Later, In 1959, the Mann Act was used to prosecute a black musician for giving a job to an underage girl, while his white contemporary repeatedly slept with underage girls and went unpunished.
The Mann Act is an inherently racist law. Whilst it has not been used solely to prosecute African-Americans, the potential imprisonment of Jack Johnson was a primary motivating factor behind its introduction and since then it has been repeatedly used to convict black men of crimes that they didn't commit.
That Jackson was also targeted under the Mann Act is certainly intriguing and only strengthens the argument that he was targeted by a malicious prosecution on account of his race. In a way, it shows that little has changed since the days of Jack Johnson. The United States Attorney's decision not to prosecute Jackson under the Mann Act could be seen as a sign of progress, but the LAPD's decision to pursue Jackson in the first place - given the sheer abundance of evidence suggesting his innocence - remains disturbing.
That Jackson wasn't railroaded once he entered the courtroom is another indicator of progress. Of course, that the 2003 allegations against Jackson even made it into a courtroom was proof in itself that Jackson was given a bum rap - the allegations were nonsensical and his accusers were proven con artists - but while Johnson was found guilty of crimes that he patently did not commit, Jackson's jury at least made the right decision.
In Jackson's case it was only the media which tarred him as guilty.
Ada lagu abe mike yang baru dah leaked kat internet tajuk 'Another Day' lagu tu dia punya collaboration dengan Lenny Kravitz....sapa2 yang dah dgr lagu tu?
Michael Jackson's children Paris and Prince Michael, on a recent Universal Studios trip, were seen browsing near Universal CityWalk's Magnet Max store, which sells sad photos of them and brother Blanket mourning at their father’s Staples Center memorial for $1.99 a pop, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Paris and Prince were spotted at the Hollywood theme park on a trip with their father's longtime friend, Elizabeth Taylor, for the Halloween Horror Nights show.
A guest in the shop described how mortified they were by the surreal situation.
“After I saw them, I walked into a store which sells things like T-shirts and magnets and pictures of stars as souvenirs," the guest told us. "I couldn’t believe it when I saw photos of the children grieving at the memorial service for sale with other pictures of stars. Sure, tourists often buy pictures of icons like Marilyn Monroe or other movie stars, but they’re of them in their prime."
The guest continued in a rant that, we can safely say, speaks for the masses.
“These are pictures of children’s grief. Who in their right mind would buy them as a souvenir? It’s sick. I only hope the children didn’t go into the store and see them. It’s awful to think their sadness is being exploited like that for a couple of dollars.”
If you are a viewer of Discovery Travel & Living TV channel, you may remember chef and restaurateur Bobby Chinn, the host of World Café Asia series (in)famously kicked off his journey on the tropical island of Penang with a unique drink interestingly named "Michael Jackson" which is a mix of soya bean milk and grass jelly.
I grew up in Seremban (approximately 60km south of Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia. This soy bean milk and grass jelly drink brings back some childhood memories. The drink vendors used to sell by the road side, outside cinemas or schools on a mobile cart. The cart was usually full of huge transparent plastic tubs of different colourful drinks. One would be soy bean milk, one with grass jelly drinks and other cordial type of drinks. When you pointed at the soy bean milk and grass jelly followed by a yell of "CAMPUR" (Mix in Malay), they would scope up some sugar syrup, soy bean milk and grass jelly in a plastic bag, tied up with a straw dangling over it.
They didn't have a name for this drink during that time (perhaps 20-30 years ago). Not until Michael Jackson released his single titled "Black or White" from his "Dangerous Album" in the early 90s. The drink vendors from Penang started naming this drink "Michael Jackson". I have studied and worked in Penang for 8 years. I fondly recall the drink vendors in George Town shouting out to Western tourists, "Come and try the Michael Jackson drink!"
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iols ttp trgila2 tgk vc ni & the original short movie lagu ni....suka tgk movement abg mike dlm club tuh...so sexy....
abg mike....i l.o.v.e u more & forever.....muah3x....
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