M.I.A. educates Aussie crims with her music
Shortly before her world tour takes her to Tokyo and the USA, UK / Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. has paused in Australia for some do-gooding. The rapper popped in to an Aussie detention centre to teach the crims some musical skills.
Apparently she was invited to the centre to help teach female young offenders and help them make some music of their own (as if they hadn
“as if they hadn’t already done enough damage to society”
This is a horribly narrow minded view. Yes, prisons contain criminals, but they are there for the reform of inmates. Not the damnation of those ‘paying their debts to society’.
I find this an offensively Daily Mail view, disappointing for the generally more liberalist view of passionate music lovers through history, of which music writers should surely count themselves.