Erykah Badu, in an interview with Vulture, discussed how she avoids groupthink and tries to figure out things for herself.
Badu,explained that she does not judge people like Bill Cosby and Louis C. K. who have apparently done bad things because she likes to weigh situations individually. Asked what she thinks of XXXTentacion, which has, among other things, been accused of domestic violence, and Fela, who "seems to have retrograde attitudes towards women," Badu said, "I would never suggest that I have popular opinion because I do not do it. "
She later expanded on what she meant by telling story from the Bible, and explained that:
I don’t want to get scared into not thinking for myself. I weigh everything. Even what you just asked me, I would have to really think about it and know the facts in each of those situations before I made a judgment. Because I love Bill Cosby, and I love what he’s done for the world. But if he’s sick, why would I be angry with him? The people who got hurt, I feel so bad for them. I want them to feel better, too. But sick people do evil things; hurt people hurt people. I know I could be crucified for saying that, because I’m supposed to be on the purple team or the green team. I’m not trying to rebel against what everybody’s saying, but maybe I want to measure it. Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me.
Read the full interview on Vulture.
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