Never Drank the Kool-Aid by Touré

Author:Touré
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-312-42578-4
Publisher: Picador

Lauryn in Love

{Lauryn Hill, Rolling Stone, 1999

America is at war. The radio of a black Chevy Suburban inching down Broadway in midtown Manhattan drones: Day Two and the air strikes on Iraq continue tonight and for the days ahead. President Clinton—the blade of the impeachment guillotine hovering above his neck—says it’s what we have to do.

Lauryn Hill swivels in her seat, careful of her long, cream-white, queenly dress, her crisp blue and white man’s dress shirt, her eye-popping turquoise-and-white ankle-length mohair coat. She places a delicate, loving hand on the very broad shoulder of Rohan Marley her ever-present boyfriend and the father of her two children (“I’m damn near married,” she says). Her face is bent with concern. “This war thing makes me uneasy,” she says with quiet denunciation. “It happened so sudden. There was no buildup.”

“Is a sign of revelay-tion,” says the Jamaican-born Ro, his voice husky and thick with patois.

“Well,” I say, “they say they didn’t want to attack during Ramadan.” “Oh,” she says, “but attacking the day before is OK?” She shakes her head. “The media have made people so accepting of war. They’re so cynical, they’ll believe something stupid. I was in Rwanda and we went to the places where the genocide happened—yards full of bones and skulls, and it seemed like props. My friend said, ‘Lauryn, I thought I’d be more upset than I am.’ He was completely desensitized. He was more upset about not being upset.” She goes quiet, letting the thought hang in midair. “Ro’s theory,” she adds, “is that all of Hollywood is meant to desensitize us.”

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