Despite offering a series of nonsensical excuses for her actions, hip hop star Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to?pay a colossal amount of money in income taxes over the past decade. She will also be under house arrest for an additional three months and parole supervision for a full year. And she must pay a whopping fine.
Looking considerably less glam than she used to … I guess six young kids and?looming jail time will do that to you … Lauryn had the balls to compare her tragic experience as a tax shirker?to her ancestor?s experience with slavery. Not a shrewd move, Ms. Hill.?She ought to have avoided that line of defense and instead just explained that she has six fucking kids and she would have gotten a lot more sympathy.
People understand about the exhaustion and forgetfulness that accompanies parenthood … though, ultimately that?defense wouldn’t have worked either since even with a hundred kids she could have still hired a fucking accountant. Or asked a friend to watch them for a few hours while she popped over to H&R Block.
When you pull in the slavery angle, you’re dredging up something much deeper.
“I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. ? I had an economic system imposed on me.”
First, she’s skipping a few generations, but?since she’s still second in line to Mary J Blige’s throne as the Queen of Hip Hop … despite having seemingly dropped off the earth for years and years …?I’ll allow her poetic license. Second, the economic system that has been imposed on her is in no way comparable to?any system imposed on slaves … that’s an abjectly absurd comparison. Third, that exact same fucking economic system?is imposed on every American. No one likes paying taxes, but everyone does it because it’s the right thing to do when you live in a society. Grow up.
“I sold 50 million units … now I’m up here paying a tax debt. If that’s not? likened to slavery, I don’t know what is.”
Personally, I’m more inclined to liken it to a?lack of financial savvy, possibly coupled with a grossly misguided sense of?entitlement.
dick hertz says
Poor baby, she”s a slave to the govt and her career.
Strip her of her wealth and have her take three buses to a fast food joband then tell us how tortured she is.
Three months? A joke, should have gotten as much time as Snipes.
Hope her attorney got paid in advance. Her landlord is still waiting to get paid.
Jim says
Wow, what an amazingly racist article.
Jim you dummy says
Nothing racist here. Move along. We overuse this word
White supremacist says
Well said!! Too many imbeciles jumping on the race wagon these days.
Bricks says
I hate L. Hill Always something with her if u don’t like it her then move!
Quan says
nothing racist about it and im black..
Frieze says
Very racist article. You need to self examine but you’re
Too defensive and hateful to do so.