View Of Amerykah From The High Road

Posted by Vernston on March 31, 2010

By now just about everyone (and their mama) has seen the new video “Window Seat” by Erykah Badu from her new album that was released today. My Affiliate Link
Talk about a marketing machine. Nothing sells in this perverted world like controversy.

There has been buzz for days on Twitter, Facebook and even the Wall street Journal with lots of praise and plenty of criticism leveled at this woman, mother, artist, activist and creative soul. So much so that the message might have been missed. Well at least no one can say they don’t know about the album coming out.

Here’s what I got from the video. There are many norms and commonly held beliefs, thoughts and assumptions that society as a whole holds onto that may in fact be stunting our growth and conscious evolution into refined human beings that reflect The Creator’s original intent. The only way to truly rise above these real but manufactured limitations and become who & what we were meant to be is to shed the trappings of what we call lifestyle and reach a level of comfort with being authentic, naked and unashamed.

Now it may seem that the forces that sustain this world have the power to stop you from thinking outside the box and can impose consequences that are worthy to be feared. But in reality life HERE AFTER the superficial, group think, slave mentality that grips 85% of humanity is well worth the price of admission. So in reality there is nothing to fear.

No, if you’ve seen the video don’t think I’m advocating we all strip butterball naked and walk down the main street in our town. There are many ways to express a point or attract attention to a message and the symbolic gesture is never a greater prize than what the symbol means or represents.

So just like you shouldn’t shoot the messenger because you don’t like the message or make fun of a speaker with a stutter or a voice like mine, perhaps we can stop condemning Erykah Badu long enough to pay attention to what she was saying. Then give some thought to how to make it a reality in our lifetime.

I could have used different language to get my point across. I could have done this in video format. But it is what it is. You observe, take the rough piece of coal & turn it into a diamond.