Remember when Sinead O'Connor was canceled for protesting child abuse in the Catholic Church?

[tulipsandroses]

America owes her an apology
It would be decades after her protest performance, before Americans would come to grips with the horrors being covered up.

In October 1992, Sinead O'Connor became a polarizing figure when she destroyed a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, following her stark a cappella performance of Bob Marley's War.

"Fight the real enemy," she spoke into the microphone, throwing the pieces of the photo toward the camera. She had changed Marley's song lyric from "racism" to "child abuse" to protest the abuse of children by the Catholic Church.

As a result, the Irish singer-songwriter was banned from NBC for life and also booed offstage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert a few weeks later.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6050042

[Deuxcents]

1. I remember being jaw dropped

The message and the massager were shocking b/c we probably thought the same thing but we needed that. I though she was compassionate and brave. Her life was not a bowl of cherries and I think that’s her drive.

BTW...she has the voice of an angel IMO

[Haggard Celine]

2. I thought all of the controversy at the time was ridiculous.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope was nothing in the grand scheme of all the crazy shit musicians had done up until then, but the world wasn't ready to talk about child abuse in the Catholic Church yet, I guess. Catholics trash Francis all the time these days and they don't get canceled.

[North Shore Chicago]

3. We were watching it live.

Frankly, I found what she did a very brave and courageous act. The idiotic fake outrage from the head of NBC and Lorne Michaels now THAT made me sick!