Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love? : A Message from Above

Having touched on the concepts of prejudice and discrimination this week, I can indeed "discriminate" between prejudice and discrimination, if you understand the word play, and thus, I shall reflect upon the main message of Where is the Love by Black Eyed Peas.



Basically, the song preaches about the importance of love and how love has been absent from this world, particularly because how people fail to realise the fact that hatred is present everywhere, even within themselves. It is enveloped in prejudice and discrimination, emphasising on the cycle of hate that never ends. This song has an important message, one that has always been tossed to the corner of one's mind, one that is disregarded by countries at war with each other -- Love can heal the world.

In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And if you hatin you're bound to get irate
Yeah madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
You gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

One of the most impactful parts of the song, this paragraph displays the irony and hypocrisy of the U.S Government, about how they fail to comprehend that the importance in solving the root of the problem, the cause of suffering and pain in their own country outweighs the benefits of concentrating on global terrorism. It is almost as though they are looking at terrorism in a sterotypical manner, assuming that terrorism derives from Muslim countries. What they disregard is the fact that terrorism includes the outrageous attacks on innocent civillians as a result of the conflicts the Bloods and the Crips and the discrimination against the blacks by the Ku Klux Klan as they strive for white supremacy through the emphasis of terrorism.

This song portrays how ignorance is plaguing the world, the cruelty of the truth is that it is fast proliferating, as ignorance soon destroys the innocent minds of young kids. Without the right awaresness, this is what happens -- "wrong information always shown by the media, negative images is the main criteria, infecting their young minds faster than bacteria, kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema". The truth of the media is that it is a double-edged sword, we can benefit from its information, at the same time, negative information can unknowingly seep into our minds. "Instead of spreading love, we're spreading animosity". That is the blatant reality of the world, we have become self-centred, materialistic and ignorant. That is the keyword. We should bury ourselves in our mind and reflect upon what we have done. In this globalised world, we are interconnected by technology. However, this is where the irony lies. Can we communicate more easily? Yes. Do we want to? No. Start showing love for others, change our attitude. This is what we want.