Singers unite at grammys over Donald trump's racist comment
NEW YORK: With Sting performing Englishman in New York, Shaggy joining in with “a Jamaican in New York” and American rapper Logic shouting out “You’re not s**tholes” – the 60th Grammy Awards turned out to be quite a statement against US President Donald Trump’s crude remark on the immigrants.
Sting on Sunday night sang his 1987 track, the lyrics for which are “Oh, I’m an alien/I’m a legal alien/I’m an Englishman in New York”, in the city where the Grammy Awards returned after 15 years.
The song was rightly chosen to resonate with the immigration debate, which was sparked after the US media reported that Trump described African nations, along with Haiti and El Salvador, as “s**thole countries” supplying undesirable immigrants to the US.
On January 11, Trump lashed out at immigrants in a foul-mouthed Oval Office outburst before several lawmakers and said, “Why are we having all these people from s**thole countries come here?” the Washington Post had reported.
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