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So have you had some difficult experiences with
people?
Not too hard, cause I saw what they were like quickly and avoided
them after that.
What nasty situations have you found yourself in?
Well, sometimes i would be in stores and the assistants would
watch me closely - that happend to lots od coloured children.
You know how you can tell when someone's watching you and then you look up
and they look away quickly? So I could never pick something up
in a shop to look at it - my white friends always could. then I was old enough
to drive I got pulled over and they checked to make the car
was really mine. I showed them it was mine, but I was really scared
because they handcuffed me. They threatened to take me to jail.
That's a pretty tough exeperience
It is and it hurts. It happend a lot with the LA police. My area
was nice, but there's still a lot of crime and it's starting
to spread. A lot of kids carry guns and there area lot of fights
- it's like the movies!
What kind of people were you friends with?
Mostly people in sport - which is were we'd be if we weren't Jacksons
and loved music so much! Most of our friends are athletes - they're
all determined to succeed in their own field. A lot of kids in
America don't look towards their future.
What, people you know?
Just peopple you see everywhere - if you're driving down the street
kids will stare at you trying to start something. If you stare back
for more than four seconds you could be in trouble. I don't stare
because I don't like the violence.
Taryll, what really reminds you of growing
up?
Have you ever experienced an earthquake then?
Were you scared?
He manage to sleep through an eartquake?!
Who had the biggest room in the house?
When did you leave that house?
What was your new place like?
My house - it's my father's dream house. He bulit a lot of it himself.
He wanted to bulid a strong house for us because of the earthquakes.
There are earthquakes all the time in L.A., but when we moved into
that house nothing ever happened to it, it didn't have any earthquake
damages.
Yeah, loads - at least four or five.
The first time I was scared, but not too scared becasue we used to
practise at school what would happen if you were in an earthquake.
I was about seven and by the time I could react it was over. I'm not
scared anymore. I don't like it, though, because I don't like being in
control. Although I belive TJ could sleep through an eartquake!
My dad could do it, too!
Yes, millions of times, but I know TJ could do it. Taj could probably
do it, too - he could sleep through anything! I couldn't do it...
I don't fall into a deep enough sleep. They sleep forever!
Dad - it was huge! Our room were normal kid - size, but we didn't
spend much time in there anyway! There was a big room where we would
play video games and have sleepovers. We had a wonderful childhood.
When I was 11 or 12. We wnt with mom and dad stayed there, but we
still saw him every week.
It was OK. It was nearer our school - that was the best thing about it.
It was more of a temporary house so we never really got into it. We still
haven't properly moved in to the house we're in at the moment - that's
life on the road for you.
What kind of school did you go to, Taj?
Did you get a lot of attention?
Tell us about your house...
Did you help your Dad built it?
What else do you remember?
Did you ever have to help with housework?
What was your bedroom like?
Are they much comfier than normal beds?
A private school called Buckley and it was a very good school - it's
known for getting people into good collages.
Yes, my graduating class only had thirty pupils in it, and in some
schools in America they can have up to 200 people in a class.
It was really nice, kinda Spanish, the tiles and colours especially -
like beige and brown. It was a great house, with a little pond
in the front, a swimming pool at the back and a massive garden.
Well, we were little - he built it pretty much himself. We did help
out with small thing whenever we could!
It was a normal house... Mom always made sure that it was clean.
We did have a couple of cleaners, though - one for the inside and one
for the outside, and a gardener came every week.
We did dishes, taking out the garbage and setting the table, stuff
like that. We were responsible for our rooms as well.
Pretty messy - we were kids after all! I had a poster of the
Three Stooges on the wall - what do you mean, who are they?! They're a
comedy team who appeared in loads of black and white films in the
Thirties - I'ma big fan! I also had a computer and a water-bed which I
got as a part of my graduation present!
Not really, and it kept popping. I kept dropping pencils on it and it
would burst! I wouldn't recommend them - they are nothing special.
