Doechii was named best female hip-hop artist on Monday, June 9 at the BET Awards at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Yet instead of giving the traditional thank you-laden speech, she focused on what was happening outside of the theater.
“I do wanna address what’s happening right now outside of the building,” she said, referencing the protests against ICE raids that are occurring around L.A. “There are ruthless attacks that are creating fear and chaos in our communities in the name of law and order. [President Donald] Trump is using military force to stop a protest. And I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us. What type of government is that?”
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Doechii wasn’t done. She explained that she felt it was her duty to use her platform to speak out against injustice.
“People are being swept up and torn from their families, and I feel it’s my responsibility as an artist to use this moment to speak up for all oppressed people,” she added as the crowd applauded, per Billboard. “For Black people, for Latino people, for trans people, for the people in Gaza, we all deserve to live in hope and not in fear and I hope we stand together, my brothers and my sisters, against hate and we protest against it.”
Several other artists, including Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, have also spoken out against the ICE immigration raids in Los Angeles and President Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to the city against the wishes of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
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