Datsymay
Proud Member
Wannabe, I want you to know that I love you very much and I do appreciate your love and respect for MJ and his work. I know you love him very much, so do I. I know that you did not call Joe names, but others have done so and it pains me to see it because while I don't agree with the method used at the time, I do understand that that was the way it was.I didn't call Joe any names though Datsy. And I never have. I just think he made a mistake. I also disagree with you that Michael doesn't suffer from emotional issues. I don't think he is mentally unsound, I just think he does have some very real emotional pain and I base that off of what Michael himself has said. You don't have to agree, but that's what I feel, because Michael himself has said so. I know Joe was only doing what he knew how, but I still think it was wrong, I know that there are other, just as affective forms of diciplin he could have used, and I do think it had a negative impact on Michael and his siblings. I'm just being honest with how I see it.
I just want you to stop for a moment and look at the positives that Joe did for his children, but you have to go back to the 50's and 60's and see what was happening at the time and try and understand what it was like. Joe had it very hard.
What I found ou in studying Joe and Mj was that , apart from the spankings that Mj doesn't believe in, neither do I, you will find that of all the children that Joe Jackson has, MJ is the one that is most like Joe.
I wasn't surprised to hear Mj saying it in that interview with Jessie Jackson, cause I had already seen it for myself. MJ is just like his father in every way but the beatings.