Today federal agents raided the home of Dr. Conrad Murray the physician in charge of caring for Michael Jackson before the pop star died last month. According to reports the investigation into Jackson’s death is now “criminal.”

Now those who loved Michael have to deal with the unsavory possibility that the King of Pop was knocked off by his doctor or whoever.

It makes sense. Mike was like Tupac or Biggie—worth more dead than alive.

Unlike ‘Pac MJ wasn’t a thug or a gangsta. The closest he got to that was the ‘Smooth Criminal’ video.

But like ‘Pac MJ had politics and was more and more comfortable talking about the corrupt music business that left many of his heroes penniless at the time of their deaths.

Mike’s killers will likely be brought to justice, we’ll never know who killed ‘Pac and B.I.G. So MJ yet again shows, even in death, that he was more than the regular negro. He was more important than us, something other/better than the regular Black man in America. His transcendence into that never never land of Black men who, though they are super blacks—see Henry Louis Gates—they are still subject to the same kind of treatment we all are. Whether it’s racial profiling (Gates’ neighbor called the police on him) or black on black homicide/manslaughter (MJ’s doc is black).

It’s a peculiar situation to be in—to be gifted and African American. MJ, Biggie, Pac and Gates all know what I’m talking about.
—Kevin Weston