Originally published July 31, 2009
Meet the real Joe Jackson — beyond the rumors, beyond the stereotypes, beyond the usual answers to the typical questions.
In a joint NewsOne/TVOne exclusive, Joe Jackson reveals more than ever before of himself , his family’s history and his relationship with his late son Michael. Joe Jackson talks candidly with NewsOne’s Smokey D. Fontaine.
WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE FEATURETTE “ON THE ROAD WITH…” in Gary, Indiana, the birthplace of the Jackson family with interviews with Gary Mayor Rudy Spacer and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Then watch the FULL JOE JACKSON INTERVIEW below and decide for yourself…Is Joe Jackson crazy or just misunderstood?
Now see the highlights below that have made this interview #1 on YouTube!
CLIP ONE: JOE JACKSON CONFIRMS THAT OMER BHATTI IS MICHAEL’S CHILD
NEW CLIP! JOE JACKSON EXPLAINS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “BEATINGS” AND “SPANKINGS”
NEW CLIP! JOE JACKSON HEARS MICHAEL COMPLIMENT HIM ON UPBRINGING
CLIP TWO: JOE JACKSON GETS CHOKED UP ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON’S DEATH
CLIP THREE: JOE JACKSON TALKS ABOUT HIS OWN FATHER
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at 1:53 pm
What’s amazing to me is that when you look to your right at the stories on this very website today(two teens shot and killed in Chicago, the 14 year old who had the baby and put it in the dumpster, the Seattle girl with the cop and on and on and on) and everybody crying bout “the kids are out of control, where’s the parents blah blah blah” and here we have Joe Jackson who probably was strict on MJ dem….but who was probably raised even stricter…and you got people on here complaining about that. What do yall want?
I dont know about his infidelities along the way, if there were any, but one thing you can say about Joe Jackson was he was a Black man with a Black wife and kept his Black family together! None of them kids are drugged out, ridden with scandal or have extensive poilice records(unlike so many “child stars” AND they all made and shared millions together. Jeez, I got my axx beat on the regular and aint got a dime to show for it…lol But, what I do have is an examplary public record and reputation!
A lot of yall on here obviously didnt get regular discipline, whether it was spankings, beatings or whatever you want to call it and it shows in your smart-mouthed comments
Some people struggle with one kid who is out of control and this bamma raised a whole bushel so sheeeeid, I say he did alright.
Leave Joe Jackson alone, he did his best with what he had…
at 1:53 am
michael jackson and bob marley sitting under a tree in jamaica
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at 10:07 am
we will never know the real story behind the whole Joe jackson and his sons’relationship. But we do know one thing that was is son and he had to love him. I give mr. jackson credit because he could have left all of his children when times were bad, and before he discovered they were talented. so here is to you mr.Jackson thanks for giving us the best human being that ever lived your son Michael Joseph Jackson.
at 11:03 am
I’m sick of people saying this guy was a good dad. He took away his childhood so he can be rich!? Doing what’s right? What kind of parent would sell away his own child’s happiness? If it was 1960 I was poor and had a kid with monstrous talent, and he told me he wanted to just be a normal child, guess what? I’d let him!!!! Why? because he will be around long after I die, and money and fame doesn’t always make someone rich. Shameful what some folks do to their kids.
at 1:01 am
mike didnt do anything to them kids, and joe was an ass, you can tell by his posture, he is an ass, that is probably why we were all able to feel so much emotion in mikes music, rip mike, joe, please get off the i am mikes dad tour you are doing in any media outlet that will have you, the guy doesnt allow questioning to go in depth without knowing the questions as well as any possible followups so he can edit, be a man dude
at 5:36 pm
Regarding the needed respect for “Mr. Joe Jackson”, He should be recognized
for his fine and outstanding job as a Father. I applaud and give praise to God for him. Who do you think you are to say that this man doesn’t deserve the respect and as any pioneer he can be learned from.
We are so lost as a people. For a person to make a statement in this day and time with no shame whatsoever please check your diet? But back to the matter at hand shamefully some person stated that he does not deserve any
praises for his long suffering and over-comings. Thats rediculous.
But then to say as a person you will never change the way you feel about
him. What a prem-o? I believe what my Grand Ma taught me to be good
medicine for people who are coming down with a illness, it goes like this
you got six months to mind your own business and you got six months to leave
everybody elses alone, and thats real life. Now if you face eye to eye
with injusitce evaluate it, make good judgement regarding the matter,
compare it, condense and then can you act against injustice. Scientific
minded people are whats needed today not these superficial minded that
surf the earth as a witch on a hunt. I declare. Some of us act as if we are
afraid of change. Change is Universal everything must change whether for the better or the worst it will change. An intelligent way to see things
is to care first of all is to except change. Sometimes its good to challenge
what we think we know or we are deteriorating in our thinking process
instead of natural growth. The fact of the matter is that when we try and attack someone then we leave our selves more vulnerable than one who
has survived your attack. But only the ones who are into this change thing
can handle this kind of thinking. Now lets test the water a little bit
If I say I will never change about how I feel; then you are willingly
deteriorating self destruction and that happens every day. I was taught
ettiquette with regard to respect for all, like with Mr. Joe Jackson,
Now if I were to have said like some of you with regard to exposing your intelligence some of you say joe jackson as if he does’nt deserve “common”
respect. Oh you never heard of “common respect” it shows your level of
cultivation with connection to being highly regarded.
I would like that those who are not into giving respect to black people
in general stop writting and posting your information as it embarrasses
our radient culture of those of us that practice giving respect to all.
Unless they show disrespect out of their ignorence which is a personal
mark against the attacker then practice My Grand Ma’s remedy for that
personal illness, Six months to mind your own business and six months to leave everybody elses alone. P.S thats why we fail because we resist change.
at 5:23 pm
well i don’t know what to beeive i know i grew up as a big fan of the jackson and that is is truly terrible how this man has died i love you micheal silklace
at 1:22 pm
I like to hear a voice of people out there about michael jackson, call +447035992941. GOD bless Michael. Thanks.
at 4:02 am
People if you are going to speak about Michael Jackson speak in good way..i know some of you may not knew him as u was grown up but some of us did and love him no matter what they was putting him thru when he was here on earth…But we love him and will always love him and his music i listen to his music when i was grown up and still do now and before he die..I know his skin color change because he had a medcial problem with his skin..Listen to the words he saying in his music and not just because of the beat..We love his dances no matter how many time we try it our sock in the kick..I rememeber when he was out break dance was too..but we still try to do the moon walk..Michael Jackson Greald Levert and everyone that pass over the year Michael Jackson Is doing the moon walk up in heaven..Even if the media is saying so much B.S. about him..You listen to his music he is tell u what they put him thru and just want to know will you still be there in his trail and his violonce…They try so much to bring this Man down but never could because his FANS would not let that happen because we knew he was not doing that s**t they say he was..These B***h as people see a person doing something good and always try to bring a person down that has money and forever was going to until he knew he had to stop..What they see one the T.V. about his Daddy and heard and Joe Jackson was not true probably i cant say i wasnt in there home to tell u what was going on.If u don’t know Boyz are the hardest thing grown up in these world.If u dont spank that but they will run all over you..You see the movie that they show on t.v. about the Jackson’s five grown that doesn’t mean that he was beating them he was just give good spanking…Single mother have to do what they have to do in rasie they kids if they have boyz spank them because these death beat ass daddy want do s**t in rasie them..but glade they had a daddy in the home.and all he want was to rasie his kids right to become something that he couldnt be..Many of people have to do that in order to rasie they kids in these world today..this world now all they think about is caring gun selling drugs and end up in prison and not seen they kids..So i think they had better grow up Michael Jackson.Listen to the words in Michael songs listen to the bulls**t the Media and stupid ass people think about him….Love U Michael Jackson U Will Forever live in my heart…I am glade his mother has the kids and family will help out…
at 1:22 am
Well I have alot to say but imma try to keep it short!Im 31 years old and I grew up wondering who Micheal Jackson was all i remember was hearing this music i like until i was old anough to understand who he was…But as far as Joe Jackson i can’t be bitter with him becuz i never had a father in my life like that whether he’s tellin the truth not about whooping Micheal us black folks kno what a good whoopi is…yes i think Joe was strict and mean but what he did was create, after God was and icon Micheal Jackson and so many families are missing fathers like Joe things were so much different back when Micheal grew up! As far as people thinkn Micheal was how he was becuz of Joe your right he never had a childhood that micheal thought he wanted which no one really knows what it felt like to not have one in Micheal’s situation. Micheal had a choice to do the drugs he was doing and he could have stop if he wanted to…but when your and addict its just that much harder too stop…Micheal had security like the President, spent money he didnt need to spend, did things for kids like no other, but what he didnt realize is that he was hurting his family becuz he kept them away and it was nothing they could do about it. Jjoe Jackson to me in my eyes is a real father the took it too far with his kids espeacially Micheal which had became shy and embarrased of his self! I have never felt this way about someone dying, it hits home becuz i followed Micheal and i seen him going downhill which he did himself thats why im so hurt about this guy passing!I have so much more to say im going to post more comments about this! R.I.P Mike
at 9:24 pm
I believe that Mr. Jackson did the right thing by being a father to his children and being there in their lives. My father was never apart of my life except he would come around every now and then to stop by and say hello, but he never raised me. So, I do not point the finger at Mr. Jackson about disciplining his children. I was disciplined in the same way, but never abused. There is a difference in abuse and spanking “whoopin” that’s what we called it where I’m from. Mr. Jackson raised those boy’s to be men and that is what Michael Jackson was “a man”. I did not blame him for not getting the media involved in his personal life. From the old school, “What goes in this house, stay’s in this house.” If Omer is Michael’s son it’s none of other peoples business to know who he belongs to. Besides nobody points the finger at them when they have children out there that nobody knows about.
at 8:16 pm
I REALLY FEEL LIKE THE MAN HAS BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH THE KIDS ARE ALL GROWN UP AND HAVE THIER OWN LIVES HE IS WELL INTO THE AGE AND HE HAS DONE WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT AT THAT TIME TO RAISE HIS KIDS,U HAVE TO GIVE THE MAN SOME CREDIT HE STAYED WITH KATHERINE THROUGHOUT HAVING ALL THOSE KIDS SOME MEN WOULD HAVE DIPPED OUT A LONG TIME AGO,HE IS THEIR FATHER AND I THINK HE DESERVES RESPECT ALSO WITHOUT HIM THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANY JACKSONS
at 5:49 pm
That extreme overbite is killing me Smokey.
at 3:57 pm
I’m Sorry, Joe Jackson can do as many interviews as he wants and it will not change my opinion of him. To Ms Submissive, Joe does not deserve and will not get my respect.
I do believe in spankings and discipline, but i think Joe took that to a whole new level. And I am not going to support his style of “discipline”. Have you noticed that all of the Children, with maybe the exception of Janet, are messed up. Randy was in a institution for over a year. I wont even go into Latoya. Jermaine. lawdy i dont even know where to start with him. but to marry your brothers wife while he was still in the institution ( might i even add that randy didnt even know his wife divorced him and married his brother) is just awfull. Tito’s wife mysteriously dying right when she was about to tell all about the family. Ya’ll wake up, this is not normal. Joe Jackson didnt spank his kids, he beat them, and he molested them.. and that was according to his own child. most of them married young just to get out from his grasp. Now if this behavior happened just to one or two of the kids, then i would say OK.. but almost everyone did this. Marlon’s wife wont even let her kids visit the family without her and then they only visited once a year. She wanted her girls to have limited contact with Joe. and she even wouldnt let them be in the 2100 jackson street video. Joe is a control freak and pretty much sold his own daughter, just cause she stood up to him. SO Ms submissive they might not have been crack heads, but there were at least 4 of his kids who did abuse drugs, whether it was prescription or not.
at 8:34 am
Incoming Typossss!! Like i have been sayinggggg! Joe Jackson deserve respect! The man brought up all those children and not one turn out to be crack heads or ended up in prison. If it was so, you-all would call him a bad father. U-all never need anyone to explain the situation to you. Unless you-all grew up without disciplin. Yes, in black culture spanking is a part of the disciplin in the caribbean/etc.
So beating/whipping and spanking is not the same.
So what is you-all problem. Its only mostly white people, and their children who is so use to disrespecting the parents like to have their parents arrested because the parents spank their but while applying disciplin.
My grandmother use to spank/disciplin us, especially my brothers.We all knew that it was because she was trying to protect us! Especially because my brothers were rude boys! So it was the love she had for us that made her apply strong disciplinin order to keep us from taking the wrong turn.
She is gone now, but Today i thank her for the spanking/disciplin me,especially my brothers! Because if it was not for her disciplin, i might have madde the mistake that so many teenage girls made(getting pregnant or even getting aids) who never had no one to apply disciplin!
As for my brothers,they might have ended up in prison. Beating/whipping is different from spanking. Some kids do need a whooping to make them understand that life is more than wearing your pants below your waist, or girls knowing that men/sex will always be here so you dont have to open as a man ask. Maybe if tyhe so called virgin (then)Louren London grew up with disciplin she would not be so silly and open up for Lil Wayne.
U compare a disciplin black child to a so called disciplin white kid and you will see the difference. Its rare u hear a black child call police for the parent because the parent apply strong disciplin. As a white kid parent try to disciplin them, they call the police and say, my mommy/daddy is abusing meeeeeeee!
The only beef i have with Joe Jackson is refusing to just say. Sure i spanbked/disciplined my children. Do u all see any of the other children acting as if they are abused children who is having memory problem? Thank you Mr. Jackson for setting an example as to how some black people/white people should grow up their children.
By the way have you-all seen the Reggae Buss-MJ tribute video on youtube? A combination tribute to Jamaican artist/music/culture/Micheal Jackson
at 8:15 am
Forgive the typoaaaaa!Joe Jackson deserve respect! The man brought up all those children and not one turn out to be crack heads or ended up in prison. If it was so, you-all would call him a bad father. U-all never need anyone to explain the situation to you. Unless you-all grew up without disciplin. Yes, in black culture spanking is a part of the disciplin in the caribbean/etc. So beating/whipping and spanking is not the same.
So what is you-all problem. Its only mostly white people, and their children who is so use to disrespecting the parents like to have their parents arrested because the parents spank their but while applying disciplin.
U compare a disciplin black child to a so called disciplin white kid and you will see the difference. Its rare u hear a black child call police for the parent because the parent apply strong disciplin. As a white kid parent try to disciplin them, they call the police and say, my mommy/daddy is abusing meeeeeeee!
The only beef i have with Joe Jackson is refusing to just say. Sure i spanbked/disciplined my children. Do u all see any of the other children acting as if they are abused children who is having memory problem? Thank you Mr. Jackson for setting an example as to how some black people/white people should grow up their children.
By the way have you-all seen the Reggae Buss-MJ tribute video on youtube? A combination tribute to Jamaican artist/music/culture/Micheal Jackson!
at 6:42 am
Joe Jackson reminds me of my father. Sometimes a man’s love is so deep it does not have the frills and the ribbons.. Its easy to misunderstand it
at 4:44 am
Bravo, I am glad you conducted this interview with Mr. Jackson because I wanted to choke him every since his CNN red carpet interview with Don Lemon at the BET Awards. This interview put many things into prospective concerning his relationship with Michael and his brothers. It also showed Mr. Jackson’s human side, which many of us erroneously thought did not exist.
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at 9:20 pm
I’ve been a fan of Michael from day one, He was my first boyfriend I’m 38yrs.old and grew up on all his music.I think it’s a shame they don’t let this man rest in peace.He have been through so much and still they won’t let go.I’m so glad though his mother get to keep the kids ,cause I think thats where they should be.The comment on the interview about Mr.Joe raising his kids I can understand where he coming from cause if you don’t keep a close watch on your kids they would go out here and get in all kinds of trouble. and there nothing wrong with beating your kids, thats why these kid is the way they is now cause the mother try to be there best friend instead there parent.I think he did real good job raising them kids and staying with his wife like he did; Why can’t these boys today learn from that.
at 8:39 pm
how is this video number 1 and it doesnt even have 30 comments?
at 9:36 am
I love his explanation of a beating vs. a spanking.I too am from Arkansas, and they are hard on blacks here in the South. Very hard. I don’t find it strange, how he explained the beating vs. the spanking, because I know where he’s coming from. And I am from Arkansas too. I also know they beat the hell out of blacks back in the day. Now those were beatings.Micheal probably got spankings and didn’t like whooping maybe because he was spoiled. Also Imagine how it must have been when Joe was raising Micheal. You can just about imagine the things he must have went through raising his children, and trying to make them successful. The racism the prejudice and things like that. It must have been hard for him. Racism still lives on today and it is alive and well. I never believed that Joe beat his children, although and am tired of people complaining when we have good black men, that do stick with their families. The media is a mess always trying to find something wrong with black males. I do not agree with it. BRAVO to Joe for being there for his family, and forget those little small detail’s in between. They are human just like the rest of us. He didn’t molest his children, or mistreat them. The important thing is that he was there for them,and we don’t have alot of black men who are doing that these days. Nobody is saying anything about that though. Look at how many fathers that do not visit nor pay child support to their children.At Least Joe was there.