You could try to find ways to be happier/You might end up somewhere in Ethiopia/You can think big with your idea/You ain't never gonna find utopia/Take a bite out of life make it snappier yeah/Ordinary gon super trippyer
Born Free — M.I.A.
Genocide in America, could it ever happen? That’s the questioned thrown into your face by the video and song “Born Free” by rapper and British native M.I.A.
To say the least, the video is controversial; a group of young, red-headed, pale-skinned boys are rounded up in violent fashion by a police force bearing the American flag on their shoulders. The group is taken out to a desert compound in what appears to be Arizona and told to run. When the group doesn’t immediately respond, the youngest boy amongst them is shot in the head, and the group takes off only to find they’ve entered a mine-field.
A mind-field is indeed what we have here. It’s hard to imagine an American society so devolved as to allow some sort of ethnic-based genocide. But what about a more subversive genocide, a genocide of a political nature?
While still a stretch, it’s not too hard to imagine in today’s climate some sort of political conflict amongst the American citizenry erupting into a full on civil war. My fear is that the Blue and the Red will make the Blue and the Gray seem like a minor conflagration.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or anyone with a degree in history, to realize that with the current economic depression, the unrest amongst citizens, and the overall disdain for government, nearly everyone, the left and the right, feels that conditions are ripe for some sort of upheaval. Our uncivil discourse and disdain for those who hold opposing views is a festering stew of bile choking the civility out of our society and pushing us closer and closer to the edge.
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