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Several anonymous sources have reported that family and friends of Michael Jackson attended a private memorial service held at the famed Forest Lawn Cemetary late Monday. No official confirmation has been made regarding the reports.  The Jackson family have not issued a statement or comment regarding the tip provided through anonymous familial sources regarding the services.

A public memorial service is scheduled to be held for the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 10am Tuesday. The Jackson family is slated to attend.

I don’t know about you, but we here at The Kaleidoscope Factor have completely ran out of patience where it concerns Michael Jackson’s father, Joseph Jackson. Now, it has never been a secret as to the type of parent that Joe Jackson is. He is the dictionary classic example of a warped show business Dad. Joe Jackson has always been depicted, by his own flesh and blood children, as a selfish, cold and dispicable tyrant. The Jackson children have all agreed that their father rarely, if ever, showed them love and affection growing up. Some have even publicly wondered if their father just out and out disliked them.

We the public already know how Michael Jackson felt about his father. Basically, in a nut shell, Mike hated the guy. Plain and simple. But isn’t it interesting how now that Michael has tragically left the scene, poor, grieving Pops Jackson has stepped into the spotlight and the cameras and awaiting microphones, declaring himself the spokesman of the entire Jackson clan, criticizing those in the public who have thrown mud on his son’s life in the past, acknowledging Michael’s greatness and legacy, and then, in the same breath, announces the launch of a music label?

What kind of crap is that? And why is it that every other day, Papa Joe calls a news conference that provides zero news? It can only be that the tiny shred of benefit of the doubt that the public had about Joe Jackson has been dashed to pieces! Who in their right mind would take the tragic moment of a child’s death to use to grab the spotlight to promote a business that won’t amount to anything in the first place? Honestly, who would want Joe Jackson managing their career? Miss some choreography and Papa Joe ordering you outside to get a switch so he can beat the rhythm back in you! Yeah, right!

Shameless Opportunist!

The Rev. Al Sharpton has stepped up his game, too! Calling himself a Jackson family spokesman and confidant, it has become sad to watch how Sharpton has milked the spotlight, too! At Mondays press conference, Sharpton stood side by side with Papa Joe as the Jackson patriarch talked about random bits and pieces concerning Michael Jackson that really wasn’t press conference worthy. Then, the world is awarded with the fantastical news that the fine Rev. Sharpton is also a business partner with Papa Joe in this sham of a record label! Just in the legal department, that is.

Sharpton also defended his client/partner’s opportunistic moves by saying:

“He wanted to thank the fans for all the love, and he felt there had been some distortion that he was trying to promote a record when he did the BET red carpet.  But my position is, whether one thinks what he said on the red carpet was appropriate or not, Joe Jackson is the head of that family and he stood by [Michael] during his trial. Look at the footage, Joe and Katherine walked him in and out of that courtroom. To say he doesn’t care about his son is absurd. When it looked like all was lost, that family stood by him.”

Yeah. We remember the trial. Papa Joe was there. The entire Jackson family was there to show their loyalty and support for Michael. No one was blabbing about business ventures, and record deals or other out of the way selfish things. But as of today, this moment within this hour, Michael Jackson is dead. The seventh of the ten children that came forth from Joseph Jackson’s loins is gone. Why can’t he show the same freaking respect that he displayed at his son’s molestation trial by keeping his mouth shut and letting Jermaine or Janet do the talking as they have done so well in the past?

Rev. Al. Sharpton? Opportunist! And it is a shame because he professes to be a God-fearing man. I guess that the love of God doesn’t really mean a thing to Sharpton if there are cameras and a microphone shoved in his face.

Michael Jackson fans are outraged over the disrespect that these two men have displayed for the Jackson family and those around the world who loved Michael. Sharpton and Papa Joe have turned the death of someone well-loved and beautiful into a mockery and a circus.