In the song, the issues addressed were terrorism, discrimination, war. These are my thoughts on the issues addressed in the song. On terrorism, the song says "Overseas yeah we tryin to stop terrorism But we still got terrorists here livin In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK" This is probably talking about the terrorism efforts in the USA. Apparently, the USA tried to help friendly countries eliminate their terrorism threats while still being faced with terrorism threats themselves. I think that the USA should first try to eliminate or at least neutralize their own terrorism threats and only help other countries when they are really in need and crying out for help. Although this may seem selfish, it is the best solution for USA. This is because when the USA still has its own terrorism threats and yet still try to help others, it may seem that they are not practicing what they preach. Also, other countries might not want the help of the USA when they see that USA also has terrorism threats themselves as they might not have confidence in the ability of USA to exterminate the terrorist threat.
The second issue mentioned in the song is discrimination. The lyrics of the song which addresses this issue are "But if you only have love for your own race, Then you only leave space to discriminate, And to discriminate only generates hate, And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah". I think that what the Black Eyed Peas are saying is very true. You cannot just love your own race and do not care about people of other races or even not like them. This is because when you do not like people of other races or do not care about them, you will start to discriminate against them. If everybody on the Earth just loved their own races and discriminated against other races and the whole world would be divided into the different races, against the saying "United we stand, divided we fall".
The third issue is war. About this particular issue, the song says "If love and peace is so strong, Why are there pieces of love that don't belong, Nations droppin' bombs, Chemical gases fillin' lungs of little ones, With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young". On this issue, I also agree with the Black Eyed Peas. There really has to be more love in this world. After every war, people always say that everything is now well and this is the last war, and then what happens? Another war takes place again. I think that war only comes to place when two or more parties have totally exhausted all methods to see eye to eye with each other. And I do mean ALL METHODS. Even then, the parties should not resort to violence and war as this will just lead to, as the song says, "People killin', people dyin', Children hurt and you hear them cryin' ". Therefore everybody needs to care for each other more. Look out for each other in every moment. Try as much as possible to come to an agreement without resorting to violence, even if it means that you are on the worse side of the deal. If both parties were not so stubborn, a lot of wars, killings and foolish things would not have happened and the world would have been so much more a better place.
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