you u al know thatat nobody ever gavenn stage like micicha jackson. but michaelasas a alsruru humaniniririanho gave jusust as much offffste e did he on the ste. michael? hihi family came f fro humble roots, and m micel always rere very deeplply r r ose in need. dd beyond all of his records at he wrote a a a recording tist, michaell even maa e guinesess okokof worldececds

for momosthaharies supported by pop star. because he gaa so much to do soo manyofof us forsoso lolong mici jackson will be e wi u uforever. >> i memet jesseackson about 30 ars agago. d d heas a season ticket holder for thee lakers as well s his brother, rlon. jackie andnd iececamfriends and he began to invite me outut to thr r hohome then i got to know thehe brothe and t the ststs, and hisis inincribib mother andther. ve to play with firecrackers auustavav fu.. d barry, jstst like youoost to ththe jacksons in softbtbl,l, sd i. dd we had some incredibible tims

togegeth.. then jajaieie invnvit me to go tour. withth t brothers. and then i goto s s the geusus of michael j jaconon. heheasas s iincdible, he alwaya hadd commanand n n onlyy the nd, hisbrothers,utut also the audience. i truly believe t tha michael made me a btttter point guard ad basketball p pyeyerasas i watch hibe so b bveve and the greatest eteteainer ever. from there, michael callededme onday and said, i i wt t t t ta to y y a abo being in a video. "r"rembebethe time." but i had to double-check witht jajack t tmake sure it was ally michael. because i was ared to atath to go over to s house, beuse ththisas myidol.

was everything tome. so i went er to h his house t have dinner. the chef came ouou and sa,, what would you like?? sosome grilled chchicn. so a as we begin talk a abo te video and wtt he wantedee t , the chef brought me out t ilild chicken, b but he brougug michchaell out a bucket of kentk fried chicken.n. and i went cry.y. likekemichael, yo eat kentucky fried d chickcken that made my da. thth w washe greatest moment of my life. wewe h sch aoood time siining on theheoor, eating that b buct of kentutuy y frd chicken. anand i i want to say thihis. this w was c celration of his li.. of his legacacy.

i wawant to thankmimichl for opening up so manyy drsrsfor afriricaamamicans, to be on dadayteshows, latee night shhow he lowed kobob and i to havee our jerseys andpepeop across the orld, because h hwawas alreadady there. d he opened all those e orors for us. his three childreren will have t most incredible grandmother t t god hahas t t onhis earth to ta care of them. mimichl'l's reehihildn will ha incrediblencles and aunts t takcare of them as well.. and they will have plenty ofof cousins to play wiwi.. so may godod continue toless th incredible family.

weayay that w w'r'reraying for you, r rain stng. we w wan to thanan the city of s geles forutting this on. a.g. for putting this on a as lllland may god continue t to bless you, michaelel

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childrenen tt t se from a woing class family in gary, , indiana. eyey h nothing but a dream no one b belveved those days that t the k kd of dreams could cocomeruru but they kept on believing. and michael never leleththe rld tutu him around from his d dres. i first met michaeael ouound970 black expo, chicicag i illois. reverend jesse jacacks s sod by this familily llll n. and from that day y a a ce kid to this momentnthehe ner gave up eams. it wasashahat eam that changed culture alalovoverhe world. en michael started, ititasas a diffffert t wod, but because michael kept going, becaususe didn't a aepept mitations, cause he refused to let pepeop decide his boundararie h hopened

up thehehoholeorld. in the music world, hehe p o o onone ove, pulled his pants s d d bre down the color curtain whe e noour videos are shown and magazines s puususn the cover. it was michael jacacks t tha brought blacac a andhites and asians and latatosos tether. it was micicha j jkson that made us sing, " "werere t world" and feed the hungry longngefeforlive aid. becaususe chchl jackson kept gog.g. he created a comfortrtevevelith people that felt they werere seserarateecame interconnected thth h music. and it w washahacomfort level

that kids from japanan a g gna and d anancend iowa and pepennlvania got comfortable enenou w wh each other so later it wasn't t stngnge us to watch oprah on television. itit wn't strange to watch tiger wowos s go. those young kikidsrereup from beg teenage comfortable fansns oficicel to being 40 years o old anbebeincomfortable to vote for a personon ococoloto be president of t theninitestates. michaeael d d at. chchaemade us love each other.r. michchaetataug us to stand with each other. there are those thth l likto dig ound mess, but milliononararou the worlrld,e'e'reoing to uphold his message.e. it's n notboboutess, it's about his love messagege.

as you c cmbmb usteep mountains, sometimes you scar youour eeee sometimes you brbreayoyourkin, t don't focus on the s sca focus on the j joueyey michael rose to the toto o osang his cynics. he outdanceded h d dbters. hehe opepeormed the pessimists.. every time he got t knkeked wn he got b bacupup every time you c coueded h out, he came back in. michael never stops. miaeaenever stops. michael nevever opop i want to o satoto m. jackson anjoe jackson, his sisters a and brothehe, , wehank you for giving us sosomee e th taught us love.. sosoonone at taught us hope. weanant thank you because we e

owowt was your dream, too.o. we know that y youhehet is okoken know you have some comomrtrt from a letter of t t p predent ofhe united states and nelsoson mandela, but this was yoyour chchil ththisasasour brother. ththisasas yr cousin. noththinwiwi fill your heart's loss, but i hope the l lovpepeop are showowg g wi make you know he didn't liliven n va. i want his t teeee cldren to knkn wasn't nothing strangnge abouout urur ddy. it was strange whahat ururaddy had to deal l thth, t he dealt with it.

he dealt with it anynywa he dealt with it f fors.s. so c ce today, mrs. jackson,n, to say good-bye to michahael i came to o saththk you. thank you because e yoneneve ststopd.d. thank yoyou cacae you never gave up. thank you cause you nenevegaga ou thank you because you totoreowow our divisision ththanyoyobecause you eradicated barriers. thank you u beususe u gave us hope. ththk k yo michael! thank you, michael! thank you,u, mhahael

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mimichl l s one of a kind. i i s thinking back to whehen meananthe many times we spenent togegeth, , d whenever we were out together and there w wou b b a a ctcturtaken there would be a caption of some kind.. thcacaion usually said somemeining ke, "an odd couple" or " "annlnliky pair." bubutoto u it was the most natural l aneaeasit of friendndshs.s. i i wa13 when we met and froro that day on our frfrieshsh grew. miaeaealways knew that he ululd unt on me to support h h be his date, and thatate e ululhave fun no matter whehere

we were. we had a bond. and maybe it wasas bauau we both undersrsodod wt it was like to be in the spotlight frfrom v ver veryry yngng a. i usus t to ase him and i'd say, you u kn, , i arted when i was 11 m mons s d. you are a slacker.r. you were w wt,t, 5 th of us needed to be adulults very early, but when we wewere together, wewe we e twlittle kids having fun. we nevev c colborated together. weevev performed together oror

danced on the same s sta, , although h he d d trin vain. onninighto unsuccessfully ach me the moon walk. heheasically shook his heaead d crossed d s s ar at my attempt. we nevev f fild a video or recorded a song, b buthahawe did do was l lghgh. itas as though it was a a competition to see whoho cldld make the o oth l lau more or be sisillr. michael loved just t to ugugh. his hearart ululjust burst out of him when he was l lghghin hedored it when i did sisiy y imititatnsnsr told him stories ououmy life. mj's lauaughasashe sweetest and rest laugh of anyone's's h had ever known.

his sense of humoror w deghghul, and he was very mischievous. ititas the night before elizababettataor's wedding. he called me the nighthtririornd asked d meo o in him. heididt want to be alone duriri t theestivities. it was t theigig before the big dada michaeael d d tried to sneak in toet the first peek of the esess,nd we were just gigglili like crara a ande almost passed out t h hysrics when we realized elizabethth w a aually aslele i in e bed. we thougug s sheas in a different t omom. atat t point of the wedding when we had to laugug and sneak ou thenent t th point o of e w wedg when there was the firir d dan, basically we had to jojo t thawe

we t t mother and father of f e bride. yes, it may haha s seed very odd to the outsisidebubut made it n n anwe made it real. whwhene started wearing the e glove, i was likike atat'sp with ththe ove? i said look, if f yoarargoing to holdldy y ha it better be the nonongved one because sequins rely hurt me. they d dign.n. 'd just shake his head andnd h ululsmile. loved to be teased. seeing h himmimi made you feel like everything was s gog g be all ririgh to the outside worldldmimichl was a genius witith chchalnged ability. to the people who o rere lky enough to know h h p pernally, he was caring and funnnny,onont

pure, nonjadeded a h hwas a ver of life. he cararedo o eply for his family and his fririen a a his fans. he was often refererretotos the ngng, t the michael that i knew always reminded m me rere o the little prince. thinking of him w, i wouldld li t tshare a passage from t the book. "what moveves s so eply about ththisleeping prince is his loyalty to a flower. thimimagof a rose shining wiin him like the flame e ththin a a la even when he's asleepep and i realized he was evevenoror frfrilile an i had thought.

lamps mumu b be otected. a gust of windnd c b bw them ou" mimichl'l'sensitivity was even more extraordinary t thahihis talent, and his s tr t tth resisid d inis heart. t t little prince also sasaid "eyes arare inin you have to look wititththe art. what's mosost popoant is vivisie." michael saw everythingng wh h s heart. to his family, his broroths s d sters, katherine, joe,e, a t to hichildren, prince, paris, blkeke my prayers are with you. michael's favoriri s sonwas not one of the countlessss

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>first must say to mrs. kathine jackson, mr. josepeph jacksoso the cldren of michael jackckn, to chael jackson's brbrothers a sisters and the enti jackson family, our prayays and ndolences are constantly with you. my f father ce said that in life one must discover r what the calling g , and en they do, they must do theheir jobs well at the living, the deaea the unborn c could do em no better. he cstantly challenged us s to becomeme our besby stating that you cannot be a pine e the top the hill, just be a s sub in the valley,y, but be e best littlehrub on the side of ththe

road. be a a bush you cannot be a ee. if you cannot be thehe highway st be a trail. if y y cannobe a sun, be a star because it isisn't by se that you win or r you fail. you've gotot to be t best of what youou are. chael jackson was trululthe best of what h hwas. finally,artin luther king jr. . said that in lifife, if falls ever your lot to be e street sweeper,r, you mussweep streets so well, in fact, you u must swe streets lilike beethen composed musi sweep streets, he saiaid, like skespeare wrote poetry.y. sweep streets s ke rafl painted picturures. street sweepeps so a the wells of t the hean and earth will say, here is a strtreet swper whwhdid hijob well.

on june 25th, bebecause heas the st, i believe heaven a a earth did pause indedeed to saof michael joseph jacackson, re lives a great t entertair who did his job well. >> to thjackson family, being g a part of a worlrlrenown family whoho has alsexperience a sudden death on n more thaone occasionon, my pyer is that no one and nothing,g, public prprivate, ft or fiction, true or rors will separate you frfrom the love of gogod whicis in christ jesus..

becausultimately at the end ofof the e day, iis only god's love th will anchor you, suststn you anmove you to a higher grouou far ave the noise of life. ththere you ll find the peace, comfmft and y to move forward to advance michael's l lacy. anfor all of us, it is appare that like our father and motherermartinnd coretta king, mimiael's fe and work was inspirir by thlove of god. throughoutut the as, few are chosen from amongsgst us to e their gift a and talento demonsate god's love in an effofort to ing the world togetherer in tr sister and brbrherhoo michl was such a one.

he epitomized d the wos of our father thahat an iividual hasn't stararted ling until he can rise ove thnarrow confines of his individualaltic coerns to the broader concerns of f humani. michael was alwaysysoncern with o oers wi humanity. ani want the world to knknow at despite being embroroiled i accutions and persecutions, , as humanitarian, he sought t it not robby to concern himself w with is world's other grereatest humamanitarian our mother during her illness just t three mons before h her dea. inin october005, i was with mom whenichael called her all ththe way fr the middle east. although shehe couldt speak because of her debililitating stroke, she listenened as heaid to her thahahe hadeen praying his kes every day for her.

that to him, she was a america true royalty. and heanted her to know if music was being played i in her roomecause of its healing g fects. my only wish is that he e could have seen the glowow on heface. if fac could smile as we knonow theyey do, tt day michael jason made our mother's s ce smile in spipi of hecondition. what an unforgetetble mont. he w such a thoughtful and selfless man, fufull of th uncondndional ve of god and goodorks that touched and d changed lives. heheas indd a shining light. like oururather rtin, and in rememembrancof michael, may me

all be inspired totoo and t our light shine. restn peace, our brother miael.

i'm congrerewoman eila jason lee and i hail frorom hohouston, tas, but i come to you on behalf of theheany members s of thenited states use of representativeses. i come to you on behalalf of t congressional blacack caucus airwoman barbara lee, a a calilifornian. i come to you as evevery mannd every y man, f i cannot write musisior dan or sing, but i do know an american storyry and d mr. a mrs. jackson and th wonderful family of brotothers a sisters and cousin to michael joseph,