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Celeb News: M.I.A: Is Beyoncé going to say Muslim Lives Matter?
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Originally posted by Airhead
You have a voice and a platform... YOU speak up and I'm not talking about that garbage ass music either where people can't understand what you are saying, I'm talking about actually speaking and bringing notice to these issues instead of worrying wtf someone else is doing.
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This!!!!
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Originally posted by DanceAgain
Lmao I KNEW when a hive replied they would drag jennys name into one way or another so predictable.
My fave ain't using a political platform to release a album though and she's not been lashed for it either just Google sis seems like the masses also see it my way.
If she releases her album for free then I will eat my words but she won't she will milk it bone dry and her fans will lap it up it's a marketing PLOY nothing more.
Lmao.
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MiaBella hardly even dragged Jenny's name into it. She said "your fave" and then expressed her disinterest in it. Don't be so dramatic.
In regards to Formation, the masses are not seeing it your way, or are you talking about idiot white people who think she's anti-cop? That's the major point of contention here, not her sincerity (which has been brought up but also is no where near being on a massive level as you've claimed).
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Originally posted by PULSE.
Feminist always had a bad rap. So I don't know what you all are talking about "career benefits" 
I mean just look at some of the Stereotypes
Feminists hate families.
Feminists hate men.
All feminists are lesbians.
All feminists are ugly.
Feminists hate stay-at-home moms.
etc.
If anything Beyoncé was bold, fearless, carefree to say I'm A Feminist and owned it. No female pop artist said it before her. |
She very nearly single-handedly transformed the word “feminist” from being a word a woman would shy away from, to a word of pride and honour.
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Originally posted by swissman
Of course she has.
Not perhaps in a song dedicated to it, but there are plenty of lyrics thrown throughout her songs since her days in DC which celebrate aspects of being black.
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She actually has an unreleased song call Black Culture though. 
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Originally posted by swissman
She very nearly single-handedly transformed the word “feminist” from being a word a woman would shy away from, to a word of pride and honour.
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This.
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Member Since: 8/1/2012
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Originally posted by rasmushooker
One thing I will never understand is how people like M.I.A. is trying to discredit an important case like Black Lives Matter because Beyoncé isn't focused about Muslim Lives Matter. Like everyone else do human have a heart case near their heart for something that they can relate to. Why focus so much on Beyoncé when you can go out and use your voice for something which is important to you. If human started focusing on themselves and what they can bring to the table I promise you, we would have gotten so much longer. But trying to discredit other because they don't fight for the same thing is there where the problem is. Stop focusing on the negative and fight for what YOU believe in.
and i'm not saying fighting for something which can bring negativity to other people. But EQUALITY for everyone. Muslim Lives Matter is important. But M.I.A. went the whoooole wrong way with it.
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Originally posted by Chimier
Are you SERIOUS? Because it is STILL relevant and necessary to talk about it.
That was not the point she was making at all. That's YOUR point and you're trying to equate it to hers.
She was talking about how black artists aren't advocating for other oppressed groups. If it was about the stupidity of this generation, she wouldn't have mentioned Black Lives Matter and used Beyonce and Kendrick as examples of people
not talking about other struggles. Don't be so obtuse.
Instead of using that interview as a platform to advocate Muslim lives, Syrian lives etc., she used to it criticize black artists fighting for black causes.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting others to join a cause and advocate for groups that they're not a part of. But to criticize other PoC artists for speaking about issues relevant to them is stupid, to say the least. |
She is not criticizing black artists or other PoC artists or discrediting BLM.
She is just saying that even the artists who address social issues like Kendrick or Bey as examples are avoiding and dont touch the biggest humanitarian tragedy and social issue that is going on - islamophoby and war in the Middle East, even when West is directly involved and affected, you almost dont hear western artists to talk about it.
And its not like MIA wants everyone to speak about every issue, but this is really incredibly huge and incredibly important catastrophic world issue that touches the whole world, yet its being ignored by most artists with huge following.
Its like they are affraid to touch it. She is just saying that we need to talk and bring more light and awareness to this right now to stop the growing islamophoby. Yet we see noone from all those huge artists with huge following addressing it or saying anything about it at all. Why is that? Thats the important point she makes and we need to discuss.
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Originally posted by swissman
She very nearly single-handedly transformed the word “feminist” from being a word a woman would shy away from, to a word of pride and honour.
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 Hello!!!! Gave the true meaning behind the word.
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Originally posted by MiaBella
She actually has an unreleased song call Black Culture though. |
Yes I was going to mention it 
I love her giggles in it.
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Originally posted by swissman
She very nearly single-handedly transformed the word “feminist” from being a word a woman would shy away from, to a word of pride and honour.
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This is funny!
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as a POC i'm so glad & proud M.I.A. said something like this!
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Originally posted by swissman
Of course she has.
Not perhaps in a song dedicated to it, but there are plenty of lyrics thrown throughout her songs since her days in DC which celebrate aspects of being black.
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Yeah I get what you're saying now. I thought I had missed a few songs in her discog dedicated to being black.
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And I know people want to deny it, but being a feminist wasn't considered cool until AFTER ST got released. There's a reason the conversation picked up so much during 2014. Even before hand, she was getting backlash from conservative feminists about why she named her tour "after her husband". So, how she would benefit from something that wasn't interestingly popular is beyond me.
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Originally posted by uhoh-ohno
This is funny!
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It's a fact that more women and men identify themselves as feminists more than before.
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Originally posted by Bríseis
She is not criticizing black artists or other PoC artists or discrediting BLM.
She is just saying that even the artists who address social issues like Kendrick or Bey as examples are avoiding and dont touch the biggest humanitarian tragedy and social issue that is going on - islamophoby and war in the Middle East, even when West is directly involved and affected, you almost dont hear western artists to talk about it.
And its not like MIA wants everyone to speak about every issue, but this is really incredibly huge and incredibly important catastrophic world issue that touches the whole world, yet its being ignored by most artists with huge following.
Its like they are affraid to touch it. She is just saying that we need to talk and bring more light and awareness to this right now to stop the growing islamophoby. Yet we see noone from all those huge artists with huge following addressing it or saying anything about it at all. Why is that? Thats the important point she makes and we need to discuss.
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She could have said all that without name dropping, but she didn't. She's trying to downplay the BLM because it's old and the current state of the Middle East is new and needs more attention, according to her. Furthermore, why even name drop black artists fighting for the rights of a group of people who are also struggling to get their injustices recognize? Why not call out white or non-POC establishments?
And for the record, I don't recall her taking a stand for Sandra Bland Treyvon Martin, or Freddie Gray.
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Originally posted by BEYLIEBER
That's MIA job if she wants people to know that Muslim Lives Matter since that's her religion, not Beyonce's. Beyonce is speaking on what she's informed and educated about. Bey is Black, so of course she's going to say Black Lives Matter, and the term Black Lives Matter doesn't mean that other races, or situations don't. It's just a term that Black People should be treated equal too.
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She's a Sri Lankan Hindu 
I understand what she means.
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Let's dress a list of everything Beyoncé should talk about :
The jews
The Syrian lives
The Muslims lives
The kid in Pakistani
The gays
The women
The Kesha's case
What about Boko Haram in Africa? Isn't that also "more important"?
Frankly I thought this woman was smarter than this.
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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.
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She has some ****ing nerve.
So, therefore, you can not address an injustice without addressing them ALL.
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"that garbage ass music where people cant understand what youre saying"  people want to fight racial injustice with this attitude? disgusting xenophobia
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I find it funny how not one person is attacking Kendrick
You all have a personal problem with Beyoncé . You could care less about M.I.A's issue.
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
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Originally posted by Bríseis
She is not criticizing black artists or other PoC artists or discrediting BLM.
She is just saying that even the artists who address social issues like Kendrick or Bey as examples are avoiding and dont touch the biggest humanitarian tragedy and social issue that is going on - islamophoby and war in the Middle East, even when West is directly involved and affected, you almost dont hear western artists to talk about it.
And its not like MIA wants everyone to speak about every issue, but this is really incredibly huge and incredibly important catastrophic world issue that touches the whole world, yet its being ignored by most artists with huge following.
Its like they are affraid to touch it. She is just saying that we need to talk and bring more light and awareness to this right now to stop the growing islamophoby. Yet we see noone from all those huge artists with huge following addressing it or saying anything about it at all. Why is that? Thats the important point she makes and we need to discuss.
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I can totally see your point and I agree that what happening in the Middle East is in fact a big tragedy. But i'm just saying, why single out Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar ? how she worded it was wrong because you shouldn't compare two difference cases like this. It isn't a competition. More celebrities and power houses should speak on the matter but you can't expect human to relate and open themselves to something they can't relate too. But I do believe that the movement should still be respected and talked about. But Beyoncé isn't the face of that revolution. Beyoncé have her own fight doing with Black Lives Matter because it's close to her heart and we should respect that. Same goes to Kendrick.
What we in reality need is a strong force celebrity which is a muslim who can talk on the matter and let the light in on the situation. If Beyoncé said anything it would just look try-hard and forced like most of the gays call Born This Way era.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by BnPac
Let's dress a list of everything Beyoncé should talk about :
The jews
The Syrian lives
The Muslims lives
The kid in Pakistani
The gays
The women
The Kesha's case
What about Boko Haram in Africa? Isn't that also "more important"?
Frankly I thought this woman was smarter than this.
She has some ****ing nerve.
So, therefore, you can not address an injustice without addressing them ALL.
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Which is ironic, cause I don't recall her marching for BLM or advocating for gay rights. Did she speak on gays being persecuted in Russia?
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