Redheads can’t seem to catch a break. They sunburn easily, they get called “ginger,” and in M.I.A.’s 2010 “Born Free” video, they are senselessly slaughtered. The 8½-min. mini-movie follows SWAT teams as they round up redheads, take them to a field and execute them. A close-up shot of a young child’s murder is so graphic that most networks and websites refused to air the video. (You can see it on M.I.A.’s website, or you can watch the murder-free live performance above.) But there is a message behind the madness: the film can be viewed as a statement against genocide and racial profiling. Sadly, this fictional slaughter is not much different from many massacres that have actually taken place.
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