ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO: Well, I’m glad that somebody is talking sense to this, all this nonsense we’re living in. I mean, the question I have is: Did America have becoming a hateful place that you can’t live in? We have Ebola. We have Ferguson. What is going on? The world is watching the biggest democracy in the world, and we are not even able to give to the world a message of compassion, of humanity. We are giving the message of: We are hateful here, and if you’re black and you have a disease, we don’t want you, and if you are immigrant in this country, we don’t like you. I mean, it is not what America stands for. When I came to this country, the first thing that struck me is the generosity of the American people, the welcoming capacity of the American people. And yet, now we are—since 2008, we entered an era of hate, period. We hate people that doesn’t think the same way we think, that have disease, that are different. It’s just like we are coming back to the 16th of 15th century. I mean, we’re just going backward. We need to move forward in this.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:39:12 +0000