So, I heard the controversy over the Window Seat video Erykah Badu boldly put out. She walks down the strip where JFK was assassinated on a hot day and bares all, literally. The song is dope and the video, even doper. You can check it out yourself man, I'm not usually one to try an psycho-analyze reasons and such but she says it all for the most part herself.
Also, a five-year old girl talks with her mom about the video too:
[SH = Mom, TH = 5 yr old daughter]
"TH: That’s why it is OK. We all have one. We are all peoples (not a typo, she said “peoples”).
SH: Yes, we are all people.
TH: Mommy, she has boobies too.
SH: Yes, Erykah Badu has boobies too. So it is OK to show your boobies outside?
TH: Yes, but only if you want to because they are yours. Oh mommy, she fell down!
SH: Yes she did. She was shot.
TH: Why?
SH: Why do you think?
TH: Because she was naked and cool and free?
SH: Maybe."
“They play it safe. Are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in pacts, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups; less guilt to swallow. They are us. This is what we have become, afraid to respect the individual. A single person, or event, or circumstance can move one to change, to love our self... to evolve."
- E. Badu
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