"Truely Miseducated!" gets it wrong

Fortunately the April 10th review below gets it completely wrong... There is no evidence Lauryn Hill has made any racist comments. That is merely an urban legend. When someone uses an Eminem song as a credible source, I weep for our nation.

Truely Miseducated!

Ok, I've been wanted to write a review for this (well for Lauryn Hill) for quite some time now, but I had never heard the album in it's entirety and so, after purchasing it (sorry to dissapoint you Miss Hill) I can now write my review. I wanted to hear the album first so that my review had more substance than just my opinion. First I must say that Lauryn is truely inspirational and brilliant for her writing is top notch and her voice is beautiful. She touches upon subjects that are important to society, from abortion and pro-life as in 'To Zion' as well as self respect in 'That Thing' but whats sad is that her good cause is overshadowed by her HUGE flaw. Lauryn is bent of the subject of love and that's seen in the interlude tracks that feature a high school study on Love and what it means to love someone...and how we should love others. The problem is that Lauryn Hill herself has shown the biggest expression of hate in her voiced opinions of white people. She has proven herslef to be racist and thus what she says has little effect because she don't practice what she preaches. That's sad, because everything that Lauryn sings about here is important and has lots of deep meaning, but it's overlooked because of her attitude toward the subject. I gave this CD 4 stars, and se desearves that...this album is almost perfect, but it's the person that is Lauryn Hill that I can't agree with. It's sad, because I once liked her (when she was with Fugees) and I would have really liked her if she had just kept her negative opinions to herself. If Eminem were to have said "if another black man buys my album I'm quiting the business" he would have been shot by now, but it's okay for Lauryn to make that statement about whites...thats sad. And to think we were making progress in the racism department!

Fresh as ever

In 2006, eight years after it was released, this album still sounds as fresh and exciting as ever. That means one thing: this album is full of considerable juice.