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06-26-2009, 12:08 AM
zuludelta
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However, I can't say that I'm actually saddened by the death of someone I never knew outside of his music and celebrity status. It just doesn't make sense. I mean, I was disappointed when Heath Ledger died because I really enjoy his work, but I didn't mourn his death. So I can't quite relate when some people start freaking about his passing or on the other extreme end, when they start verbally dancing on his tombstone.
Not to speak for Master Thespian, but I think it's possible to "mourn" for someone you don't have any personal connection to. Sure, I find a lot of the "mourning" for celebrities and popular public figures, particularly exploitative expressions of grief meant to garner media attention, to be somewhat disproportionate to the deceased's actual societal contributions, but I think on some level, when people "mourn" for a public figure, they aren't necessarily mourning the person's passing
per se
, but they are expressing sorrow for the death of a person who represents something that the mourner feels a profound personal connection to.
Again, not to speak for Master Thespian, but I think Jackson might have represented something much bigger than celebrity or popular music success to certain segments of the black community. Mourning his passing, for them, probably means more than just grieving for a celebrity who happened to be black.
I guess we can all find a particular situation in our lives that allows us to empathize with the people mourning Jackson's passing. For instance, I've never felt a personal kinship with the late George Harrison but I mourned his passing all the same, because his music and his work to highlight the plight of the poor in various areas of Asia represented something that to me, went beyond Harrison's status as a popular figure and celebrity. I imagine that Jackson's success as a visible minority means so much more to certain people than his celebrity, and that's what some people are responding to in the wake of his demise.
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