“流行音樂之王”邁克爾·傑克遜（Michael Jackson）是世界給我們的禮物，但是我們卻深深的誤解了他。傑克遜的音樂超越了年齡，種族。當他還是個孩子的時候，他卻被迫像一個成年人一樣生活。雖然他的皮膚由黑變白，但在思想上，他卻進行著一場由白變黑的旅程。 美國穆斯林民族領袖，榮譽牧師，路易士·法拉坎（Louis Farrakhan）滿含著眼淚說，邁克爾·傑克遜是他的好兄弟，是一名勇敢的戰士，同時他描述說，MJ想重塑他的地位，因為曾經一個邪惡的宣傳運動對他提起了長期的訴訟。
2009年7月4日，在利比裏亞首都黎波里，《的黎波里郵報》（The Tripoli Post）對法拉坎先生進行了獨家采訪。在采訪即將結束時，他滿含眼淚的說道：“那是我的兄弟，我非常瞭解他。而且非常愛他。他給予世界的太多太多，可卻匆匆地離開了人世。”
但法拉坎先生又說，MJ從來沒有被那些害怕他的人拋棄，他本該由伊斯蘭教變成一位穆斯林並且能使更多人變成穆斯林的。
法拉坎說，MJ計劃的英國演唱會將是他最後的表演。“他去了英國，並且講到演唱會的名字就叫《就是這樣》（This Is It）。”
據牧師法拉坎講，這場演唱會是MJ的最後戰鬥，並且他一定要贏得勝利，然後再也不會舉辦任何演唱會。
“當他說出‘就是這樣’這句話的時候，我想你一定看出了他善戰的立場，”法拉坎提到。
“他舉起了拳頭，因為MJ準備要戰鬥了，從而重塑他自己的地位，因為曾經有人企圖製造邪惡宣傳運動對他進行殺戮，曾經有人害怕他變成穆斯林，害怕他會使更多的人都變成穆斯林，”法拉坎先生告訴《的黎波里郵報》說。
當被問到美國的黑人和白人怎樣看待MJ的遺產時，牧師路易士·法拉坎說，“他是這樣的一個人，他的藝術才華，超越了種族、文化、宗教信仰、種族劃分，他的文化和藝術能使所有種族、所有文化群體與所有宗教聯盟都結合到一起。”
“他是一個高貴的靈魂，卻遭受著世間的折磨，因為他感覺自己從來沒有童年，”牧師法拉坎補充道。
法拉坎說，因為皮膚病，MJ的皮膚由黑變白，而這就是他所描述的那個令他痛苦一輩子的事情。“這確實是讓他一輩子都棘手的問題，但是在思想上，他卻在進行著一場由白變黑的旅程，”牧師強調道。
法拉坎說，MJ對兩個著名的電影導演，史蒂芬·斯皮爾伯格（Steven Spielberg）、大衛·格芬（David Geffen）和他的兩個猶太人朋友都非常失望，因為他們拒絕幫助他創作他的錄影，從而展現出在美國生活的黑人身上存在著那些真實的傳統和遺產。
“聽著，傑克遜曾單獨告訴我，他並不想像好萊塢一樣，展示非洲人的形象就是通過鼻子的骨骼……還有非洲文化那粗野的成分。他想展示的非洲是文明的始祖，”法拉坎說道。
“當他們拒絕傑克遜的時候，他說我自己也可以做到，”他補充道。
牧師法拉坎為1993年傑克遜被控告孌童一案做了強有力的辯護。
“法拉坎自己說，邁克爾·傑克遜從來沒有騷擾兒童。MJ愛孩子。MJ出資建起了夢幻莊園，裏面配備了很多可以騎乘的玩具，碰碰車等。作為他的客人，我去過夢幻莊園，並且帶了幾個保鏢，當我和他單獨聊天的時候，我的保鏢們就都坐在了轟炸機車上享受快樂的時光，我想他們可能小時候從來都沒有這樣的經歷，”榮譽牧師法拉坎對《的黎波里郵報》說。
當你進入露天劇院的時候，你會看到有一塊特別的地方是專門為那些有殘疾和需要用藥的孩子準備的，在那裏他們可以躺著打點滴，同時可以透過一層玻璃看正在播放的電影。
“中肯的說，他不是那種討厭孩子，在性方面要毀掉他們生活的人，而是一個懂得跟孩子很好的相處的人，因為他知道孩子不可能欺騙他。他認為和動物之間也可以很好的相處，因為它們不像成年人一樣傷害了他一生，”法拉坎補充道。
“但是作為一個穆斯林，我曾跟他的哥哥傑梅恩（Jermaine）說過：真主阿拉給予我們生和死。另外，在《古蘭經》裏，真主阿拉也說過，‘不論厄運何時降臨到它的臣民身上，他們都要說：真主阿拉是我的守護神，他是我的終極歸處，’”牧師路易士·法拉坎總結說。
Louis Farrakhan: Michael Jackson Wanted to Regain His Own Position from Slaughter of Wicked Propaganda, Tour was to be His Last
With tears in his eyes the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam in the United States of America , said Michael Jackson was his brother whom he knew well as a fighter who wanted to regain his own position from what he described as a wicked propaganda campaign leveled against him for so long.
At the end of an exclusive interview he gave to the weekly The Tripoli Post on Saturday in Tripoli , Libya , Mr. Farrakhan tearfully said "that is my brother. I knew him well. I love him much. He gave the world much and he’s gone too soon."
However, Mr. Farrakhan said Michael Jackson was never left alone by those who feared he would become Muslim and turn millions toward Islam.
Farrakhan said Michael Jackson's planned English tour was to be his last. "He went to England and said 'This is It'."
The tour was to be Michael's last battle which, according to Minister Farrakhan, he was to win it and then he was not to do tours anymore.
"I want you to watch his militant stand when he said 'This Is It'," Farrakhan said.
"He raised his fist because Michael was ready to fight, to regain his own position from the slaughter of wicked propaganda from those who feared Michael would become Muslim and turn millions toward Islam," Mr. Farrakhan told The Tripoli Post.
When asked how black and white America would view Michael Jackson's legacy, Minister Louis Farrakhan said "he was a man whose art, transcended race, culture, religious persuasion, ethnicity, his culture and his art united people of all races, all ethnic groups, and all religious affiliations."
"He was a magnificent soul, tortured, because he felt he never really had a childhood," Minister Farrakhan added.
Because of a skin disease, Farrakhan said, Michael Jackson went from black to white in what he described as a painful journey. "That was his awkward journey, but inwardly he was journeying from white to black," the Minister stressed.
Farrakhan said Michael Jackson was disappointed when two famous film directors, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and his other Jewish friends, refused to help him promote and produce his vision to show black people in America their actual heritage.
"Listen, Michael told me personally that he wanted to show Africans not in the way that Hollywood showed Africa with bones and noses, that they, I would say, the crude part of African culture. He wanted to show Africa as the mother and the father of civilization," Farrakhan said.
"When they refused him, he said I would do it myself," he added.
Minister Farrakhan strongly defended Michael Jackson against accusation of child abuse leveled at him in 1993.
"Michael Jackson, this is Farrakhan talking, never bothered children. Michael Jackson loved children. Michael Jackson took his money and built Neverland with all these rides, bumper cars etc. I went there as his guest and took some of my security people, and while I was talking with Michael in a private session, they were on the bumper cars enjoying something they may be never experienced in their childhood," the Honorable Minister Farrakhan told The Tripoli Post.
"When you go up in his theater, he had a special place for children that were disabled, children that were under medication where they could lay with their IVs and look through a glass at the movies that were being shown.
"This is not a man who hated children to the point that he would ruin their lives sexually. This is a man who felt comfortable with children because children are not deceptive. He felt comfortable with animals not with grown up human beings who have hurt him all his life," Farrakhan added.
"But as a Muslim, I told his brother Jamine: Allah who gives life and Allah is the ultimate cause of death, and Allah says in the Qur’an, “wherever a misfortune befalls a believer, the believer says: Allah is my patron and to him is my eventual return,” concluded Minister Louis Farrakhan.
在Maryam清真寺演講，芝加哥，7月26日09年。以下內容只是關於MJ的較多內容文字記錄：
Somebody told Michael, he was ugly. Somebody told my brother, he wasn't good looking. Somebody told you the same thing. So you begin to hate the way GOD made you, but you don't have no money to fix it. So as brother Michael began to have a little money, he began to try n' fix things. Well, I read something, he had about six nose-jobs, he had like stuffs..., he had money, and he's working on himself. I had a conversation with brother, he said to me, "Minister, they always made us see the black people as ugly people in the jungles of Africa ...", listen to his words to me. He said, "...but I then began to study and I saw that some of this great Egyptian Pharaohs, they were beautiful people". " and so I went...", he said, "...to my friend Spielberg and David Giffen and others and I asked them would they help me to produce a movie on the lives of Africans, to show the black people how really beautiful we are, and were." He said they turned him down. and he said, "He would do it himself". It was Hollywood whose first movie 'The Birth of a Nation'. How did it portray us? and how has Hollywood portray us? and who with the Hollywood Moguls that Hollywood portrayed us liked that? Am I anti-Semitic, or are they anti-Black?! They know our history, and they wanted to keep our history from us so that we would never be inspired to rise above what they have portrayed us as. I didn't write some book called 'Little Black Sambo', somebody wrote it for me to read. I'm not anti- Semitic, but they were anti-Black. As Michael grew, he began to change. He fixed his nose, fixed his chin, he took some of his fat out of his jaws, and later on, you know, he contracted or contacted this skin disease called vitiligo. It says, first appeared on his hands, that's why he started wearing the glove... but as you know vitiligo, it takes away your pigment and you have one part of you very light, almost like albino and the other part is natural. Michael being before the public, he didn't want to be spotted so he went to dermatologist who sped up the process. So Michael went from black at ten years old to white in his forties. They say, when he died his body was chalk white. He was bold from the burn in his hair so he wore a wig... and they're saying' that the pain that he suffered from that burn, is what started him on the pain medication.
When Michael had Johnnie Cochran as his attorney, I was in Los Angeles . Staying at a home of the health guru Dr. Tori(?) and Jonnie Cochran called me and he said "I need you to talk to Michael, he's really going through something". Well, I didn't know what Michael was going through, this was my first conversation with Michael. It was in the '80s. When I talked to brother Michael, he was in deep depression and I said "Michael, out of our pain came out our creative genius. If it was not for the pain of slavery, we wouldn't have spirituals, nor would we have blues or Gospel. All of it came fro our pain. That great gospel song that Martin Luther King wanted to hear the night before he was killed, ""Precious LORD Take My Hand" was written by Chicago brother who had just lost his life and then loosing his wife, he went to the room and his pain brought out that magnificent song". I said, "Let your pain serve your creative genius", that's all I said. After that Michael came out with the album called 'HIStory'. Now listen, this is serious, cause I didn't know what was giving him pain, or who... but he made that 'HIStory', he starts talking about the pains. 'HIStory' How many victims must there be Slaughtered in vain across the land And how many struggles must there be Before we choose to live the prophet's plan Everybody... Every day create your history Every path you take you're leaving your legacy Every soldier dies in his glory Every legend tells of conquest and liberty Don't let no one get you down Keep moving' on higher ground Keep flying until You are the king of the hill No force of nature can break Your will to self motivate She say this face that you see Is destined for history Then he wrote 'They Don't Really Care About Us'.... They don't care, WHO?! See, he's sending his people, messages, out of his pain. They don't care, and some of you are dumb enough to think because we have a black president that they now care. If he does not get better for the least of us, then somebody still doesn't care about us. Skinhead, deadhead Everybody gone bad Situation aggravation Everybody allegation in the suite, on the news everybody dog food Bang bang shock dead Everybody's gone bad All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us Beat me, hate me You can never break me Will me, thrill me You can never kill me 'JEW' me, sue me Everybody do me Kick me kike me Don't you black or white me! THAT'S WHAT MICHAEL WAS TALKING ABOUT!! ...They made him go back in the studio and change those words, and Michael was labeled anti-Semitic. Tell me what has become of my life I have a wife and two children who love me I am the victim of police brutality, now I'm tired of being of hate, you're raping me of my pride Oh for Gods sake I look to heaven to full-fill its prophecy... Set me free Skinhead, deadhead Everybody gone bad Trepidation, speculation Everybody allegation In the suite on the news Everybody dog food Black man black male Throw the brother in jail... Tell me what has become of my rights Am I invisible cause you ignore me? Your proclamation promised me free liberty I'm tired of being the victim of shame They're throwing me in a class I have a wife and two children who love me I am the victim of police brutality, now I'm tired of being of the hate, you're raping me of my pride Oh for Gods sake I look to heaven to full-fill its prophecy... Set me free Skinhead, deadhead Everybody gone bad Trepidation, speculation Everybody allegation In the suite on the news Everybody dog food Black man black male Throw the brother in jail Tell me what has become of my rights Am I invisible cause you ignore me? Your proclamation promised me free liberty I'm tired of being the victim of shame They're throwing me in a class with a bad name I can't believe this is the land from which I came The government don't wanna see, but if Roosevelt was living he wouldn't let this be, no,no Skinhead, deadhead Everybody gone bad Situation, speculation Everybody litigation Beat me, bash me You can never trash me Hit me, kick me You can never get me All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us Some thing's in life they just don't wanna see But if Martin Luther was living, he wouldn't let this be no, no Skinhead, deadhead Everybody gone bad Situation Segregation Everybody allegation In the suite on the news Everybody dog food kick me kike me Don't you wrong or right me All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us What you don't know is when one of us becomes famous, they watch us closely... Do you remember different strokes, do you remember the little brother called Todd Bridges? I was in the home of Jim Brown, probably one of the greatest football players that ever played the game and Todd Bridges was there. and he came to me and said "Farrakhan, I was going to change my name to an African name... and the FBI came to visit me and warn me that I should not do that, or else... Why is his desire to change his name, a problem to the US government? It's because all of you where the names of your former slave masters, and as long as you are in the name of your former slave master, you are not yet free. You gotta get out of his name and come into the name of GOD which you rightly deserve. Michael then was on his way to the cross, because Michael had touched the hearts of people all over the world. Michael had touched the hearts of every race, every culture, every ethnic group, every tribe... There were nothing that Michael had touched and now he was coming dangerous.. 'DANGEROUS' Didn't he write some songs called 'Dangerous'? He was telling us he had become dangerous, dangerous TO WHO?! To those who want to keep you ignorant of who you are so they can continue to use us as tools and slaves. It's not about hate, it's not about anti-Semites. It's about who is anti-Black. I didn't know what was in Michael's heart but I told Michael, "Michael, don't be angry with your father because even though you didn't have pillow fights and sleep overs, those that had pillow fights and sleep overs had a childhood, they're the ones whose buying your records and they're the ones who's coming to see you. You had a purpose for your life". You didn't know that Michael was a lecturer. I was surprised. When I read Michael's lecture (in my blog: July 6, 2009 Michael Jackson - Oxford Speech March 1, 2001 part1~4 w/full text) at Oxford University in England . Michael was much more than a man of song and dance. Michael was a hear that beat for the love of humanity. This is part of Michael Jackson's speech at Oxford . It's titled, 'Heal the Kids'. It gives the view of MJ's philosophy and world view than any other source... and this is what Michael said at Oxford , "Love, ladies and gentlemen, is the human family's most precious legacy, its richest bequest, its golden inheritance. And it is a treasure that is handed down from one generation to another. Previous ages may not have had the wealth we enjoy. Their houses may have lacked electricity, and they squeezed their many kids into small homes without central heating. But those homes had no darkness, nor were they cold. They were lit bright with the glow of love and they were warmed snugly by the very heat of the human heart. Parents, undistracted by the lust for luxury and status, accorded their children primacy in their lives." On the world condition, this is what brother said, "Friends, let me paint a picture for you. Here is a typical day in America - six youths under the age of 20 will commit suicide, 12 children under the age of 20 will die from firearms - remember this is a DAY, not a year - 399 kids will be arrested for drug abuse, 1,352 babies will be born to teen mothers. This is happening in one of the richest, most developed countries in the history of the world." Here is Michael's goals, he said, "Our goal is simple - to recreate the parent/child bond, renew its promise and light the way forward for all the beautiful children who are destined one day to walk this earth. "They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another. I have discovered that getting parents to re-dedicate themselves to their children is only half the story. The other half is preparing the children to re-accept their parents."
Then he started talking about his father's father, "who showed little affection towards his family and raised my father and his siblings with an iron fist. Who could have imagined what it was like to grow up a poor black man in the South, robbed of dignity, bereft of hope, struggling to become a man in a world that saw my father as subordinate. I was the first black artist to be played on MTV and I remember how big a deal it was even then. And that was in the 80s!" "My father moved to Indiana and had a large family of his own, working long hours in the steel mills, work that kills the lungs and humbles the spirit, all to support his family. Is it any wonder that he found it difficult to expose his feelings? Is it any mystery that he hardened his heart, that he raised the emotional ramparts? And most of all, is it any wonder why he pushed his sons so hard to succeed as performers, so that they could be saved from what he knew to be a life of indignity and poverty? I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love, an imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me. Because he wanted no man ever to look down on his offspring. And now with time, rather than bitterness, I feel blessing. In the place of anger, I have found absolution. And in the place of revenge I have found reconciliation. And my initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness." "And that's what I'm asking all of us to do tonight. Live up to the fifth of the Ten Commandments. Honour your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of the doubt. That is why I want to forgive my father and to stop judging him. I want to forgive my father, because I want a father, and this is the only one that I've got. I want the weight of my past lifted from my shoulders and I want to be free to step into a new relationship with my father, for the rest of my life, unhindered by the goblins of the past. In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe." - Michael Jackson -
The Michael Jackson Souvenir Edition
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