ILL ZakieL - America (Official Music Video)

#IllZakiel #America #Immigrant #Immigrantstory #Immigration #Famillia #USA #Mexican #Latino

Director: Mario Nolasco & ILL ZakieL
Producer: ILL ZakieL & DopeBoyz Music
Writer, Performer, Engineer: ILL ZakieL
Sponsored By: Me Vale Madre
Speech at end of song: Guillermo Del Toro

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lyrics
With the spirit of Cesar Chavez
Luchando pa mi gente like I’m marching
They called me alien like I’m a Martian
They said go back to where you came from that’s where we was starving
I’m thankful that my mama brought me here now I’m an artist
I try to use my art to uplift peoples hopes
Wether you come from where I’m from or if you even don’t
See I got love for everyone it’s on an equal slope
Each one can teach one we can rise up let the people know
Through the bullshit I love this country and the opportunities
Look at my sister one of the smartest women that I’ve seen
An immigrant woman on the road to get her PhD
Nurse practitioner and a professor at UNLV
Look at my mother she brought us here
when she was 30
She didn’t speak a word of english
But she started learning
She went to school while raising us also full time working
Through all the ridicule and racism she kept on hurdling
She earned her masters degree, pushed through the adversities,
had a successful career, lived the American dream
I have a lot of success stories in my family tree
And we all came from the gutter made it out of poverty

Here in America
America America America America
Here in America
America America America America

To live the American Dream yo that’s why we came here
That’s why we risked our lives so just let me make it clear
Some people judge us without walking inside our shoes
If you was starving what would you do
A lot of people livin life in fear
Of getting separated from there family’s
ice is near
I know a lot of dreamers lived entire live’s right here
Good people tryna go to school and work have a career
Treated like animals separated in cages
And baby’s taken away over crowded and denigrated
While the ignorant debate it
With no empathy they blame it on the people in the cages media washing their brain systematic dehumanization
Think about it why you think they call us aliens
They take your human value as soon as you’re labeled this
A sub human like you’re no longer homosapien
That’s how they justify atrocities that they commit

Here in America
America America America America
Here in America
America America America America

Guillermo Del Toro Speech

One thing you need to know is that I am Mexican and I am an immigrant
We are in a moment of great fear great fear and great division because that’s why fear is used. It’s used to divide us is used to tell us that we’re all different that we shouldn’t trust each other and these lies make us easier to control and make it easier to hate each otherThis is very important that is happening right now because I can tell to all of you all immigrants from every nation that you should believe in the possibilities and not the obstacles ever do not believe the lies they tell about us believe in the stories you have inside and believe that we all can make a difference and we all have stories to tell and we all can contribute to the art and the craft and the world in anyway we see fit thank you very much thank you