Recently a friend asked me how I’d define a strong and confident woman.
I immediately flashed back to Sinead O’Connor, October 3, 1992.
She was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Sinead performed her first song, “Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home,” as planned. Later in the show she sang her second number, an a cappella rendition of Bob Marley’s “War.” Instead of singing “racism,” she sang “child abuse.”
Then she held up a photo of Pope John Paul II and while singing the word “evil,” tore the picture in two. She ended by saying directly to the camera, “Fight the real enemy!”
Stunned, the live audience sat there silently . . .
