Gaga’s Capitol offence

ATTACK OPENED SINGER’S EYES

LADY Gaga faced her darkest fears singing the national anthem at Joe Biden’s inauguration earlier this year.

The attack on the Capitol building in January challenged how she felt about her country as a white person.

In a new interview Gaga explained: “The day before I went to see where I was going to be standing and walked in with a bullet-proof vest on because we were nervous about being in the Capitol.

“Somebody said: ‘Would you like to see the Capitol?’ I said ‘no’ because I wanted to get in and out.

“As I was leaving I stopped myself and said: ‘Why didn’t you want to see the Capitol today?’ And it was because I didn’t want to see where the insurrection had taken place.

“I went back to that woman and said: ‘My apologies, I’d like to see the Capitol,’ then I walked like a detective and looked for evidence of the truth, because we see these things on screen but to be there in person I was afraid. I knew I was avoiding the issue and I stopped myself.”

“I found a window that had blunt force, that was cracked and I stared at it and saw the white rage and reflected and thought what I was going to do the next day.

“That day to me was not about Donald Trump – it was about white supremacy. It was crystal clear.”

Since last year’s racial unrest in America, the singer has been working on a program called the Power Of Unlearning, to have a deeper understanding of equality, and now feels “allergic” to conforming to old ideas.

Gaga added: “The process is a work of love to yourself and the people around you. I believe we drink the poison of white supremacy when we are young – how do we throw up this poison?”