Joe Jackson wasn't that bad

I don't know what he did to them growing up but according to this movie I didn't see anything that was so bad. If this is what the fuss was about then they are some really weak cry babies that need to man up. Micheal and Janet said that they didn't have it that bad but the others did. Micheal said that he was always used as the example. One of the older guys said that they were not abused and that they were punished like everyone else. One of the only parts that I didn't agree with was the "whoopin" that he gave Marlin for not getting the dance steps.
He work on a steel mill and still could hardly make ends meet. He didn't want that for his children. He had 9 children, 6 of them boys. Alot of men would have left but he stuck it out with his wife. It's hard enough to raise 1 blk male and keep them out of trouble, he had 6. The only one who has ever been in any real legal trouble was Micheal and he was found not guilty. I've never heard of any of them disrespecting their mother and to me, that one of the worst things you can do. You don't hear about them in the news selling drugs, robbing, or murdering people. They seemed to have grown into respectable people.

When I was a child I received "whoopins" as well and yes, they really hurt. My mom was alot worse than my dad was. We didn't get brutal beatings and it didn't happen often but they made their point. I can honestly say that looking back, I didn't get half the "whoopins" that I should have. I only got hit with switches (feeble tree limbs)or a belt. It hurt my feelings and my pride more than my body but I survived and I'm not a bad person. I know of people who got hit with extension cords. That's what I call abuse or like my mother said that she would sometimes get it while in the bath tub or with 4 or 5 switches at a time. She said she got hit with the first thing her mother could pick up.


I'm too old to be politically correct, I'm gone be real. Take it or leave it.