I have no idea who this woman is but I am thrilled with her excuse. Never has the race card been played so deftly.
Reclusive soul superstar Lauryn Hill has been jailed over an enormous unpaid tax bill.
Fugees singer Hill, 37, was sentenced to three months' jail followed by three months' home confinement for failing to pay $500,000 to the taxman in the United States...
Shortly before she was arrested last year, Hill penned a diatribe declaiming the music industry.
In the rant, Hill blasted pop music for a "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism.
"Over-commercialisation and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual."
During her trial, Hill claimed she is still forced to live under the pernicious economic hierarchy imposed by the slave trade.
She told the court: "I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me."Very moving. I say we pay her reparations and then set her free.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/465175/20130507/lauryn-hill-tax-trial.htm
