Jessie Reyez, everybody. That was fantastic.
Thank you so much.
That was beautiful.
Would you mind telling them a little bit –
That song is beautiful. I don’t know if you heard
some of the lyrics.
“I feel what you feel when you’re far away.”
It’s a beautiful story about a migrant couple,
and it’s not just about their journey being migrants,
but it’s also about the love that they share
between each other,
which is sometimes a story people don’t tell –
the human side of immigrants, migrants.
Just people suffering in and around the world
as human beings.
You have a beautiful story of that song in particular.
Thank you.
The song came out like a freestyle.
Being Latina, being brown-skinned in this world,
it’s really difficult to ignore what’s going on
in society right now.
I saw a little girl that looked just like me crying
for her parents, but her parents were coming
from Canada to the States,
and it took them 16 years
to get legally approved.
When everyone wants to say, “Oh, you can do it
the legal way” or “You can do it easily”
or “Why are you doing it illegally?”
all this stuff, it’s really easy for people to judge
when you’ve never had to face that kind of struggle.
So my hope is that if you go home
and you see this music video
and you see a window past privilege,
a window past privilege that you might have been given,
that we all bleed red, man,
and if you were looking out for your kids
and you had to wait 16 years
to escape from prosecution and to escape from violence,
you might do whatever you can, too,
even if it’s illegal, just to make sure
your family’s all right.
Jessie Reyez, everybody. Thank you so much.
Thank you.