M.I.A. questions why Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar haven’t spoken out on social injustices facing people in other countries.
British-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. didn’t hesitate in criticizing Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar, during an interview with Evening Standard magazine. In her interview, she questioned why the two artists haven’t made a stand for Muslim lives, Syrian lives, or children in Pakistan.
“It’s interesting that in America the problem you’re allowed to talk about is Black Lives Matter,” M.I.A. said. “It’s not a new thing to me — it’s what Lauryn Hill was saying in the 1990s, or Public Enemy in the 1980s. Is Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar going to say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter? Or this kid in Pakistan matters? That’s a more interesting question. And you cannot ask it on a song that’s on Apple, you cannot ask it on an American TV programme, you cannot create that tag on Twitter, Michelle Obama is not going to hump you back.”
M.I.A. attempted to clarify her remarks in a series of messages sent on Twitter today (April 21). The musician went on to explain that she wasn’t criticizing Beyonce with her comments about Black Lives Matter.
“My question was,on American platforms what do they allow you to stand up for in 2016. This has been the number 1 question for me…A#blacklivesmatter B#Muslimlivesmatter. I’m not Muslim . My criticism wasn’t about Beyoncé. It’s how u can say A not B right now in 2016,” M.I.A. wrote in two separate tweets.
M.I.A.’s tweets addressing her comments on Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, and Black Lives Matter, can be found below.
Fuck muslims
Vazyyl u crazy do u know what u saying don’t disrespect people religion u kind of niggaz we ain’t need in this world bruh WTF
Muslims are just people. It might be more correct to say, “Fuck Islam”.
Muslims are cool ppl, they just not quite fine with you and whole world not being muslim. You dont hear them say “fuck christianity” or “fuck atheism” because its mostly in arabic, and when they do, they dont have no pc police complaining, because they got religious police that gives two fucks about any other religion than …
@ Vazyyl you’re an idiot stop with all the pathetic racism # ALLIVESMATTER
No one on the corner have swagger like Blacklivesmatter!
@ Big Black Man: Muslims aren’t a race idiot
@ Tommy Ass …..Goodybe 🙂
They not Muslim b it ch, get over yourself. U sound ridiculous.
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I thought Muslim was a religion not a race, sorry M.I.A but your dumb
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If you’re going to insult someone, double check your grammar. Fuckboy.
Here, let me help you out.
I thought Muslim was a religion, not a race. Sorry M.I.A., but you’re dumb.
Here, let me help you out.
I thought Muslim was a religion, not a race. Sorry M.I.A., but you’re dumb.
She’s not wrong… But this isn’t her fight. Ultimately it IS “ALL LIVES MATTER.” But taking down others for defending themselves in the name of equality is… I dunno, self-defeating? Still, I want to fuck her mouth.
Why should anyone fight for the rights of another group that isn’t fighting for them?
you could ask whites that same question with regards to black issues. the answer to your question is empathy, something that the world is in dire need of.
i get where shes coming from because shes sri lankan religions all get along and religious freedom is very important in their culture
And it’s much bigger issues in the world, I know
But I first had to take care of the world I know…Jay Z “Kingdom Come”
the average american is only trained to know about america. any conversation about world issues usually goes way over their heads.
what she said is actually factual. she is not hating on anybody, not beyonce nor kendrick. it’s accepted to openly hate muslims in america right now, blacklivesmatter can exist in america but muslimlivesmatter can not, that’s because right now muslim lives really don’t matter at all. if black people are at the bottom, muslims are underground.
If it were openly accepted to hate Muslims in America then they’d be deported and people wouldn’t be fired for saying the slightest critique of Islam, and “Islamaphobia” wouldn’t be a term used at all. You probably don’t even know the differences between Sunni Islam and Amhadi Muslims. Or The Nation of Islam.
Keep your Twitter Preaching.
Umm Beyonce and K.Dot haven’t done that, because they are focused on our own ppl right now. They got love for Muslims and every other race, but like they say in order to help someone u gotta help YOURSELF first. Meaning helping our African Americans first then other races..
how about all lives matter, fuck putting us into groups. We are all one, stop focusing on certain ethnic backgrounds, fuck all of that.
i feel what you’re saying but by saying all lives matter, those minority groups that are marginalized just get drowned out. that is the very reason why underrepresented groups have to stand up and make themselves heard in the first place.
@R.C There is no such thing as a BLACK race, its AFRICAN! This is what you did to yourself, at the end of the day you lowered YOURSELF to just a color; black. Europenas don’t call themselves white they always say European or german, irish, etc. Black people are in lost and are trying to create this new race called black, with their own “soul” culture and stripper culture. Its not working for ya’ll
There’s white people in Africa. What are they?
Black is a race…..What you mentioned are ethnicities. Black people in America from a media standpoint are all called African Americans. I’m not African American, I’m Dominican who is black, and you’d find that other Black (race) people are different ethnicities. Jamaicans are black, and you have White Jamaicans and Black Europeans.
because dumbass M.I.A. Syrian lives aren’t being snuffed out in the streets in AMERICA stupid!!
whether you realize it or not the US has everything to do with the death and destruction that has been going on in Syria for the last five years widely billed by the media as a “civil war”. so please pick another example cuz syria is the worst you could do.
M.I.A…chill
When American Black people speak up for themselves there’s always someone who has a problem with it. Syrians can speak up for who?. Muslims speak up for who? Exactly! Last time I checked there were more Muslims in the world than there are Black people. Last time I checked Syrians were running their own country. M.I.A thoughts are missing in action here.
Somebody tell this dumb bitch to stfu.
And the dummies talking about “All Lives Matter,” eat a dick. This shit is about police abusing their power against black people in disproportionate ways. This shit happens to biker gangs too, but until they want to say biker gang dudes lives matter because we’re tired of getting shit on by the police, then that’s their problem. Black people finally saying enough of this bullshit, and mofos better start listening or it’s going to be riots or some shit. Nobody is giving most white people a hard time in law enforcement. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have 99% white serial killers as they go about their day while the police say thanks buddy, have a good one instead of harrassing them like they do us.
Police abuse all RACES around the world you ignorant bastard. Maybe you should try and read articles from around the world not just local shit ! Don’t get mad when some white person brings up segregation because you yourself are doing it by saying “BLACK LIVES MATTER”.
Why got every dumbass whos education resistand a voice to say wut is wrong? When I read these comment I see so much wrong information or no information at all. Wut M.I.A said doesn’t hav an oppionion, it’s just simply a fact. Of cuz you gotta differentiate between private an public, mainstream and underground. But wut she says has alot to do wit wuz goin on round the globe and if the americans would get that in their head they shoul think bout lettin some Refugees in their country.
Real eyes realize real lies. Peace
Black is a Race dumbass! Black isn’t just one of African American descent. This is just of the reasons the Black Race is so divided. Africans, Afro Americans, Dominicans, Colombians, Brazilians, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Hatians, Jamaicans, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyanese, Belize, Panamanians, Costa Ricans, are all Black and part of the BLACK Race.
I agree with her. ALL LIVES MATTER not just black ones.