Staring down the camera lens, O’Connor sustained the word “evil,” ripped the photo, and proclaimed, “Fight the Real Enemy!” She then left the stage, providing no further explanation. The problem was, the world wasn’t ready to hear her message and she didn’t do a great job of delivering it.ĭuring the dress rehearsal O’Connor told SNL producers that she intended to perform Bob Marley’s “War.” At showtime, she changed some of the lyrics to address the evils of child abuse, and paused briefly at the end to hold up the photo of the pope. In destroying a photo of Pope John Paul II, O’Connor didn’t mean to attack the man, or the faith, but to draw attention to the child abuse crisis brewing in the Catholic Church and the Church’s complicity in the silencing of victims. So much has been said about this moment, much of it dead wrong.
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