Lizzo explained in a new “Vanity Fair” article why she played the crystal flute that once belonged to fourth president and slave owner James Madison.
She said, “When people look back at the crystal flute, they’re going to see me playing it.
“They’re going to see that it was owned by James Madison, but they’re going to see how far we’ve had to come for someone like me to be playing it in the nation’s capital, and I think that that’s a cool thing.
“I don’t want to leave history in the hands of people who uphold oppression and racism. My job as someone who has a platform is to reshape history.”
Ironically, in the same article, Lizzo says that kids at her predominantly black high school would call her “white girl”, because she dressed like a hippie. So she had to hide the fact that she was a Radiohead fan.
