You're fucking Oprah

  

"M.I.A. attributes much of her success to the "homeless, rootlessness" of her early life. 

Due to her and her family being displaced from Sri Lanka because of the Civil War, M.I.A. has become a refugee icon.  

The EMP Museum's 2008 Pop Conference featured paper submissions and discussions on M.I.A. presented on the theme of "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change." 

 She has used networking sites such as Twitter and MySpace to discuss and highlight the human rights abuses and war crimes that Sri Lanka is accused of perpetrating against Tamils, citing news articles, human rights group reports, government reports, her own experiences as a child and on her return to the island in 2001 to support calls for a ceasefire. 

 M.I.A. has also used a great deal of tiger print and imagery, a symbol for the Tamil Tigers in both album artwork and music videos, such as seen in "Galang". 

Being the only Tamil widely known in Western media, M.I.A. has discussed how she feels a responsibility to represent the Tamil minority" 

"She has been accused of being a "terrorist sympathiser" and "LTTE supporter" by the Sri Lankan government, even by public figures such as Oprah Winfrey, as was stated in a Rolling Stone magazine article, where the singer recalled their exchange:  

"She shut me down. She took that photo of me, but she was just like, 'I can't talk to you because you're crazy and you're a terrorist.'  

And I'm like, 'I'm not. I'm a Tamil and there are people dying in my country and you have to like look at it because  

you're fucking Oprah 

 and every American told me you're going to save the world.'"  

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