Logic’s VMA Performance Was A Powerful Protest Against Immigrant Family Separation

Logic triumphantly walked into the MTV Video Music Awards tonight (August 20) on a mission. Followed by 60 Latinx children wearing "we are all humans shirts, the Maryland rapper launched into a meaningful efficiency of "One Day" featuring Ryan Tedder. The moment was an artsy statement, which symbolized why so several Residents of the United States oppose the Trump administration’s misguided family member separation policy.


As Logic rapped onstage with Latinx children in back of him, a video screen featuring a border wall began to rise symbolically. Once the song reached its mighty crescendo the children reunited with their parents, standing in solidarity against the injustice numerous immigrants are currently facing. Last week, the Nobody rapper released the "One Day" music video. It specifics the gripping story of a boy who is separated from his family member at the U.S. Border and the trials he faces in a detention center.


Logic isn't new to using his platform at award shows to supporter for critical messages. At the 2017 VMAs, he performed "1-800-273-8255" with Khalid and Alessia Cara, and was accompanied onstage by suicide attempt survivors and loss survivors. The words he mentioned per year ago still resonate, "We must fight for the equality of every man, woman, and child, without consideration of race, religion, color, creed, or sexual orientation."


In 2018 those words are even more important.


The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards air live tonight on MTV from Radio City Music Hall at 9 p.M. ET/PT.