In a new Vulture interview...
http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/erykah-badu-in-conversation.html
I'm surprised the interviewer didnt just walk off after that. Why would you want to paint Hitler as a victim?!
Bonus material
http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/erykah-badu-in-conversation.html
That's not something most of us are good at.
We're not, and I'm okay with that. I'm also okay with anything I had to say about Louis Farrakhan. But I'm not an anti-Semitic person. I don't even know what anti-Semitic was before I was called it. I'm a humanist. I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler.
Come again?
Yeah, I did. Hitler was a wonderful painter.
No, he wasn't! And even if he was, what would his skill as a painter have to do with any "good" in him?
Okay, he was a terrible painter. Poor thing. He had a terrible childhood. That means that when I'm looking at my daughter, MarsBadu's daughter with enigmatic rapper Jay Electronica. She also has another daughter, Puma, with the West Coast rapper the D.O.C. , I could imagine her being in someone else's home and being treated so poorly, and what that could spawn. I see things like that. I guess it's just the Pisces in me.
But don't you think that someone as evil as Hitler, who did what he did, has forfeited the right to other people's empathy?
Why can't I say what I'm saying? Because he did such terrible things?
I'm surprised the interviewer didnt just walk off after that. Why would you want to paint Hitler as a victim?!
Bonus material
So you see Trumpism as a short-term reactionary thing?
The thing about Trump is that he's a bad guy to the point where it looks manufactured. Are we playing games here? He can't really be that bad.