Wigged Out
Mean sister: I don't know why Erykah Badu receives all the positive publicity from the Dallas Observer ("Waiting for Erykah," by Robert Wilonsky, March 24). Perhaps you missed the show at the Forest Theatre when Ms. Badu and her sister, Nayrok, sang anti-war songs, calling out President Bush directly in their lyrics. Nayrok opened the show, lasting way too long, and was booed off the stage by the predominantly black crowd. Her '80s metal rock is amateurish and completely clashes with Badu's alleged theme of peace, love and enlightenment. Badu finally took the stage and preached for at least 10 minutes in between one of her songs, rambling and riding her weed high. A black woman in the audience, near the front of the stage, shouted: "Get on with the music!" And Badu immediately lashed back: "If you don't like it, sister, you can get the fuck on!!"

Somewhere in her anti-war rant, she actually said, "Fuck war! Fuck Bush!" and at the end of the crescendo: "Fuck white people! Lock the doors. We're going to have a revolution!" Wow. As one of the minorities there, I looked at my two other Caucasian friends, slunk against the wall, eyed the nearest exit and prepared for a lynching. The audience started filing out down the aisles while she tried to resurrect the positive energy of her set, but I'd guess that about 25 percent of the audience left the theater.

Anyway, do some more follow-ups to this story if you don't believe it. Badu is not all about the love. She's a panther in disguise. Check under her fake 'fro wig.

Dustin Nulf

Via e-mail

Editor's note: This is one man's version of what happened at this show. Were you there? If so, we'd like to hear from you. Write us at letters@dallasobserver.com.

anyone heard about this?

so much to say...and yet so not worth it.

on the one hand i agree with you. but how does saying "fuck white people" when HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS and if not MILLIONS of white people have bought your albums, attended your shows, voted to give you Grammys, requested your songs on radio, and basically been part of the audience that keeps your career going for almost a DECADE say 'thanks' to ANY of your supporters?

i for one am white and totally understand reverse racism and black power. at the same time i am totally crused if this is true as the person i look up to most in modern society (well...almost) and who's music has changed my life and view of the world could be...almost as bad as those piece of shit nazi's and skinheads only the other way around. it's a very sad day if this is true.

Just because white people like to be entertained by blacks, doesn't mean they see us as equals

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Then don't comment. Nothing BlaqueKnight said was wrong.

you bothered your fingers to type that? why don't you go busy yourself with a ham sandwich and shut the f**k up for a second.

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Yes, I bothered and I am gonna to keep on bringing it. You are one of the most annoying people on this board. It would not be a day for you on this board if your not making something border line kiss-ass statement to the system or white power stucture.

So you just keep expressing yourself and I will keep telling you where you can go and I don't have to use profanity to do it. Now I think you know where you can put that ham sandwich.
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I wonder if the folks here who are so "understanding" of Ms Badu's (alleged) comments, were equally forgiving to Axl Rose in the late 1980s , when he was accused of racism and hung out to dry ?? Somehow, I doubt it ....

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He was not accused of racism. It was in his songs. "N***gers and F***GS get out my way" that is a line of out of Guns and Roses song and still some record company nut gave this fools millions to record a follow up record that will never be put out.

Just because white people like to be entertained by blacks, doesn't mean they see us as equals

on the one hand i agree with you. but how does saying "fuck white people" when HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS and if not MILLIONS of white people have bought your albums, attended your shows, voted to give you Grammys, requested your songs on radio, and basically been part of the audience that keeps your career going for almost a DECADE say 'thanks' to ANY of your supporters?

i for one am white and totally understand reverse racism and black power. at the same time i am totally crused if this is true as the person i look up to most in modern society (well...almost) and who's music has changed my life and view of the world could be...almost as bad as those piece of shit nazi's and skinheads only the other way around. it's a very sad day if this is true.

thank god ignorance still exists because there is that much more to fight for. otherwise life would be boring.
i dont claim to know what it's like to be black but that was NOT the point of what i said. i see everyone as equal regardless if they're entertaining me, and quite frankly music does MORE than entertain me.
why you gotta turn this into something fucked up?
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I didn't turn it into something fucked up. I just responded to your notion that she should have kept her mouth shut about her feelings because she has some white fans. Maybe she doesn't want to be a minstrel show for them. Maybe she doesn't make her music for them. Most, if not all, soul artists don't make their music and message for white people.

uggggghhhhh shut up you racist
that's it. you crossed a line. i dont even need to say anymore to you and your disgusting worldview. you got what's coming to you anyway.