Posted in Michael Jackson on the July 17, 2009
Tito Jackson recalled that his brother Michael used to dodge the wrath of his father with the kind of dance moves that made him famous.
“Most of the time Michael was so quick my father couldn’t hit him,” said Tito said in an interview.
The grieving brother said, “He’d swing the belt and Michael would be over there, he’d swing again and Michael would be over here. My father used to just stop and laugh because he couldn’t hit him. Michael would just dance around him. My father would get tired and give up.”
Joe, a steelworker in the industrial city of Gary, Indiana, reared his nine children to be a musical hit machine that garnered millions. Tito said he held no ill feelings towards his father about the way he was raised, saying he was a “disciplining type of father”.
He explained: “From those of us not raised in our generation they might not understand it. You got a big-ass punishment or you got spanked for it. That’s the way it was.”
Source: Splash News