Michael Jackson

[Anon2381]

He also was accused of molesting children and I don't play that game so I don't listen to his music or like him.

I spent years feeling the same way, but after watching an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson my thoughts changed. Larry King asked him who some of his hero's were. 
He said he picked his hero a la carte. If you choose a hero they will inevitably let you down. So he admires sport stars and their abilities, but doesn't concern with their "less desirable traits." 

Here is some of his thoughts:
“You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that’s not the part of them that piqued your interest.”

"This is how I form my own personal philosophy and am able to ignore the less-than desirable traits of some of those who I admire."

“I think on some level, role models are overrated,” Tyson said. “Growing up in the Bronx, had I required, as a prerequisite, that another black man from the Bronx had become an astrophysicist for me to become one, I’d still be in the Bronx.”

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He use to have a pet chimpanzee. Made his property into an amusement park "the neverland ranch." The media spread all sorts of rumors about him. Not sure what to believe myself. 





My personal favorite from him.

Man in the mirror. My favorite too!