Amurika. We’re on to your games.Lauryn Hill Ordered by the Court to Undergo “Counseling” Due to her “Conspiracy Theories”
The name of Lauryn Hill’s breakout album was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill but it now appears that the powers that be would like her to record a new album called The Re-Education of Lauryn Hill. After appearing in court for tax evasion, Hill was sentenced to three months in jail PLUS she must attend “counseling” due to her “conspiracy theories”.
According to the IBTimes, Hill told the court: “I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me.” Furthermore, Hill also believes that artists are being oppressed by (what the article calls) “a plot involving the military and media”. Because of these statements, Hill was ordered to undergo “counseling”, which is a way of saying that she is mentally ill and that she needs some sort of re-programming session regain “sanity”.
In 2012, Hill published a thoughtful letter describing the corruption, the oppression and the control of the music industry and her desire to escape it. In one part of the letter, Lauryn states
“It was this schism and the hypocrisy, violence and social cannibalism it enabled, that I wanted and needed to be freed from, not from art or music, but the suppression/repression and reduction of that art and music to a bottom line alone, without regard for anything else. Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I Love making art, I Love making music, these are as natural and necessary for me almost as breathing or talking. To be denied the right to pursue it according to my ability, as well as be properly acknowledged and compensated for it, in an attempt to control, is manipulation directed at my most basic rights! These forms of expression, along with others, effectively comprise my free speech! Defending, preserving, and protecting these rights are critically important, especially in a paradigm where veiled racism, sexism, ageism, nepotism, and deliberate economic control are still blatant realities!!!”
(See my article entitled Lauryn Hill’s Tumblr Letter on the Music Business for the full letter).
wow, way to fucking delegitimize and pathologize the experiences of a Black woman by abusing mental health resources and language to avoid the real shit she brings up.
Conspiracy theories because oppression is not real.
dave chappelle fucking warned you all
free lauryn
^^yep
“the worst thing to call somebody is crazy. it’s dismissive.”
First official trailer for Lee Daniels’ new film, ‘The Butler’ starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams, David Oyelowo, and Colman Domingo.
Wow, now I’m excited!
Yo, this actually looks good. I may be here for this.
oh. hell. yes
I wanna see this. Ion know how I feel about this supposed love scene between Oprah and Terrence Howard…..but I wanna see this
ooooohhhhh!!!!!! Oprah’s BACK! And Alan fuckin Rickman!?
Lehgo.
AT - We Are The Muses by *Laur-
drawthread /r/Fuck. LSP would be that one that’s like “HOOHOOMMMM HERCULES WHAT A FINE PIECE OF ASS”
OMG!!!!! ^_^
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- A child.
This. I just want the freedom and liberty to hang upside down with my bloomers showing. That’s all I want.
Black icons hanging out
I’m pretty obsessed with this upon first sight.
this is overwhelming.
My God…..this is too amazing for words
I know it’s not Thursday, but I found this while I was cleaning!: me (3rd from left) and some of my Spelman sisters nominated as Morehouse College’s 2012 Women of the Year!
Office dance party!DANCE PARTY! This is my first little stab at animation.
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly. The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used— She thought our flight had been canceled entirely. Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him. She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers— And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands— With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too. Not everything is lost.
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.
Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her
Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she
Did this.
Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,
Sho bit se-wee?
She stopped crying.
She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the
Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,
We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and
Would ride next to her—Southwest.
Found out of course they had ten shared friends.
Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.
Questions.
Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—
And was offering them to all the women at the gate.
Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,
The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same
Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.
Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African
American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice
And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.
Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,
Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.
—has seemed apprehensive about any other person.
This can still happen anywhere.
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via awelltraveledwoman)
I have always loved this poem so very much.
(via dancinginthesetrees)
I hope this story is true, the story in the poem, because it is a very good story.
(via thewomanofkleenex)
The lovely Camille Winbush (The Bernie Mac Show) is 23 today!
wow
Nessa is gorgeous
that dress tho
oh my goodness NESSA!
Nessa, Uncle Bernie would not approve. lol
Yaaas Nessa
Mmmmm lawd
Y’all don’t remember her from 7th Heaven tho. She was Ruthie’s best friend. She was a lil cutie, now she’s a baaaaad lil biddy!
Life in The Not-So-Fast Lane: things that have changed about me in the past year: →
i used to look at people who were…well..to be frank…aesthetically lacking [[in my opinion]]…and see them in these happy ass, long term ass, committed ass relationships…marriages. with cute fucking kids and smiling color coordinated pictures. and all that jazz.
and i’d be over the rainbow jealous….
I needed this. Thanks Morgan.
