M.I.A. Made a Dumb, Clumsy Statement About Black Lives Matter
One of MIA’s greatest traits is the way she speaks unfiltered in her music and in interviews, passionately articulating the political causes she supports and criticizing the practices she disdains. She’s never been too finessed about it, though, which has made her somewhat more relatable a figure in the realm of political musicians. But a new statement to London’s Evening Standard is drawing criticism for the way she seems to misunderstand black American activists and Black Lives Matter.