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u/Uncle_Burney 17h ago
Those were NOT fighting words, young MJ was very diplomatic here. Besides, I bet Mike whoops the shamone out of Bonaduce’s hee hee.
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u/leaC30 17h ago
MJ was from Gary, Indiana. Allegedly even Tupac found out about that.
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u/619backin716 17h ago
Plus, LaToya related in a talk show during the 80s that whenever Joe Jackson got handsy with Katherine - which was fairly often - it was usually Michael who put him in check
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u/Shadohz 17h ago
Dawg, a co-sign is as good as if you said it yourself. How would DC know about some going-on at a random private HS unless Mike or someone from his crew had been talking about Danny? If you're going to talk about somebody behind their back, then be man enough to stand on it when you get called out for it. Mike wasn't being diplomatic here. He was being a chicken. If you don't want to have to throw hands, then don't be talking bad about people who did nothing to you... especially on national tv. Mike has to hold the L on this one.
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u/aslanbek_aslanbekov 16h ago
How do we know that Danny had not done anything to Michael?
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u/Shadohz 15h ago
They're kids. Kids are going to fight at the slightly sign of disrespect. It was going to be on-sight regardless. Apparently I need to type out the interview because people aren't listening to what DC asked Mike and what he said in response. However let's entertain the hypothesis Danny did something to Mike. What purpose does it serve Mike to go on national TV to air Danny out, then pull back when the interview asks him to reiterate what he said behind the scene? If you said it you said it. Stand on it. "I didn't say that. You said that." is weaselly antics.
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u/Putrid_Principle_660 17h ago
Marlon had them hands huh I heard a story Michael did too.
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u/LastNameIsJones 15h ago
You don’t grow up the youngest and most talented of a group of brothers with an abusive dad without learning to scrap.
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u/rdhdboi767 17h ago
Man, Latoya probably would've busted his ass lol. I love that the whole squad showed up ready for war over Mike, though.
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u/KINGT000 17h ago
Pleeesse...after getting them hands from Joe all those years...Im more than sure they had hands...and Don was foul for starting tht ish...smh
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u/Anime-Takes 17h ago
Why is a grown man starting trouble between kids by saying something like that? He knows that would get back to them, and him basically saying I’ll just say what you told me is not ok. Why even trust an adult if they will put your business out there so quickly and get you into a potentially sticky situation?
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u/BusyBit6542 17h ago
I was thinking the same thing. Like this dirty mother fucker can't keep a secret for shit
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 16h ago
It's just TV interview stuff. I doubt he actually thought they'd fight over this.
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u/Anime-Takes 16h ago
A kid saying behind the scenes that someone at his school is a troublemaker and then not wanting to say that on camera should be more than enough information for an adult to not then want to repeat what was shared off camera. He doesn’t know why he didn’t want to say that and shouldn’t be putting anything related to that out in the public.
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 16h ago
I honestly don't think it's the deep.
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u/Leading_Procedure_23 15h ago
Nah, only simple minded people say that when they can’t think or have anything else to disprove what they said and usually stay quiet or talk shit after
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 15h ago edited 12h ago
But it isn't that deep.... it's not that serious.
I'd say resorting to empty insults over nothing is much more simple minded.
Edit: Yall really upvoted that run on sentence
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u/TheLionOfJudah101 17h ago
y'all people in the year 2026 are so weird lolll like the sensitivity is so strange. It wasn't ever that serious man
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u/ateam1984 🖤 15h ago
It’s serious to a kid
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u/TheLionOfJudah101 13h ago
no not then. That's you with your 2026 mind being super emotional. Like you gotta understand how soft so many of you are nowadays. Which is by design. You were supposed to be softer I look at that is kind of a good thing that you were afforded the opportunity to be more in touch with your feelings in that way. But this was a totally different time when people didn't cry at everything and it was humorous. Like the fact that y'all are getting mad at how people acted in the past is a reflection on who you are today in 2026 and trying to apply your 2026 principles without acknowledging or caring that the 70s was a different experience. That's you not having empathy for him to be honest. That's you not having empathy for an entire generation of real people that lived their lives
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u/SignificantChance674 17h ago edited 17h ago
Bonaduce did NOT want that smoke. We all know what city Micheal and his brothers grew up it. Him bragging he could beat up LaToya ? SMH
In that Questlove Supreme interview, Tito said all of them were more than capable of whopping some butt.
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u/I_am_BrokenCog 17h ago
I mean ... no shade on the Jackson's ... but ... a literal family of partridge's could beat-up The Partridge Family.
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u/MinaWearsGold 17h ago
I’m so mad Michael isn’t still around because I know when he hit old age we would have gotten some crazy stories. We’ve seen when older divas outlive the others and all the crazy comes out.
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u/BusyBit6542 17h ago
I feel like Danny is just making this whole thing up as a joke. I mean I hope it's real but I have my doubts.
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u/styrofoamcouch 7h ago
I had always heard as a kid MJ was a graduate of the Joe Jackson school of martial arts and would smack the shit out of people with authority for line stepping. Im from Detroit and Gary indiana is where we go "damn, its REALLY bad over there" makes detroit look like west Bloomfield
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u/luxii4 17h ago
He did go to public school. Gardner St. Elementary. Their auditorium is named after him. He actually donated a lot to the school especially with their music program. There's a ceremony for the naming of the auditorium and he thanks his favorite teacher there. I knew her when she still taught and she said he was very sweet but he did miss a lot of school for performances. He probably had to go to private school afterwards due to the absences.
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u/NotreallyD 1h ago
He was such a handsome your man with that glorious natural he was sporting!! When I was a kid, I wanted a natural so bad (not considering how it would look on a little white boy) because lots of my friends had them.
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