I’ve been bending over backwards, trying to be positive about Michael Jackson all week. I’ll continue my positivity towards Michael as I offer my daily odes (2 more days to go).
However, Joe Jackson is testing my patience.
Facts about Mr. Jackson:
a. Michael said that the reason he and his siblings call their father Joe is because Mr. Jackson would not allow them to call them “daddy”.
Pause.
Huh?
Sounds like a disassociation to me. A serious detachment. How can a man sire 9 children (10 actually, if you include the one he created out of wedlock) and not want any of them to call him “daddy?”
b. All the Jackson boys admit to being beaten regularly by Mr. Jackson. To be honest with you, those Jackson males are so well behaved and soft spoken that I don’t believe that they needed all those whippings. I really don’t. Marlon said that he was beaten every other day and even Michael discussed how Marlon was regularly beaten by that distant father of theirs.
c. I won’t even get into the horrifying accusations that LaToya Jackson made against her father when she was out of control and living with her abusive husband that her father had introduced her to—primarily because I choose not to believe her. But I’ve never actually gotten those accusations out of my head. I’ll give Joe the benefit of the doubt on that one, though.
This leads me to the last 72 hours.
a. During an interview, Joe said that the world is grieving the world’s greatest superstar. Sounds cold for a father to refer to his recently deceased son that way.
It was not until the next day—after someone apparently said something to him, that he referred to Michael as his son.
b. Oddly, while on the red carpet at BET, he started bragging about a record label that he and a pal have started. HUH! Very inappropriate! He is 80 years old so I don’t anticipate a change. He mentioned that his tears are in his heart rather than in his eyes. Okay, I’ll take that.
In any event, something is strange and unusual about that man. That’s all I’ll say out of respect for the grieving Jacksons and the memory of Michael whom I loved.
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The fact that he was at the BET Awards in the front row, but Janet was designated by the family to give remarks showed me just how high he seems to rank in that family.
I know we all grieve in different ways, BUT if you just lost your son or daughter suddenly would you feel the need to go to an awards show (LET ALONE A B.E.T. AWARDS SHOW).
Would you be pushing your own record label?
He should have stood up there with Janet and said “thank you all for your support in this time of grief in the passing of my son” Then take the next thing smoking to find out how his son died.
Believe me when I say that the BET awards show has never been a class act ( you can say the same about the entire network as well).
I felt bad that this was the first awards show after his death. I am going to rent Motown 25 so I can really honor and remeber him.
I also wrote about Joe Jackson’s comments about a recording venture on my blog. I found his comments to be in poor taste. The latest news that the Wall Street Journal is reporting is that the most recent will Michael Jackson made left his father out of it. People seem to forget that when you treat someone really horrible, sometimes they get the last laugh. I can’t imagine why Rev. Al Sharpton, who is on a whirlwind PR tour for the Jacksons couldn’t tell Joe Jackson how he needs to act. This is a shame and I find it totally reprehensible that they are carrying on in this manner and the man hasn’t even been buried yet. Typical Joe Jackson moves.