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M.I.A. – "Born Free" (2010)
2010/04/29Just released 3 days ago, this video is just too profound not to post. It is SOOO profound that YouTube has censored it! (…which is great because people are sure to watch it!) It is violent for sure, but no more gratuitous than most of our R rated action movies these days.
My interpretation of M.I.A.'s message is that we should care. We should care when there is an ethnic struggle and people of one race (or religion) are being systematically eliminated. We as in the USA, and the "first world" in general. We don't. Or we do, but barely when it is in a "third world" country. We do not take side or action, largely because there is no money involved. Those people aren't important enough. I've seen similar images to the ones in this video in news footage in the middle east and Sri Lanka, M.I.A.'s home country. Only when it is our own people, or our friends in the first world, do we take action.
When the military power portrayed is wearing the United States flag on their sleeves, and the people being rounded up are red headed kids, the message hits home a little more. We humans as a species need to become color blind. A spark of racism can ignite a fire leading to genocide. It's just not right though. M.I.A. has done us a service I think, to remind those who agree and hopefully teach others to see things from the other side of the glass.
We are all individuals. We should be judged by our actions. Not our skin, beliefs, blood, or shoe size. We should all be born free.
PS: If you want to just listen to the song without the other sounds of the video, here you go:
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M.I.A. – "Bucky Done Gun" (2005)
2009/05/26This is the song stuck in my head this morning.
If any artist has a legitimate reason to be political, it is her, Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam. Although she was born in London, she grew up amidst the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil militancy. Her stage name, M.I.A., is in part a reference to her being "Missing In Action". I have to believe it is a misnomer at this point though because I believe her popularity has fostered more international sympathy for the Sri Lankan Tamil minority than anything else in the past decade.
I totally agree with her on the so called "War on Terror". "You can't separate the world into two parts like that, good and evil. Terrorism is a method, but America has successfully tied all these pockets of independence struggles, revolutions, and extremists into one big notion of terrorism." The world is not so black and white. Are the Sri Lankan Tamil civilians and militants unjustified for wanting equality or independence when the policies and culture of the majority Sinhalese clearly deny them the same rights and opportunities? One of the origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War is "The government of D.S. Senanayake passed legislation stripping the estate Tamils of their citizenship in 1949, leaving them stateless." No rights?! Sounds like fighting words to me!
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