“I don’t want to hear my grandchildren say ‘respect me'”: Stevie Wonder revealed to Oprah that he is going to live in Ghana because of racism

The musician Stevie Wonder confessed to Oprah that she will be moving to Ghana permanently as a result of acts of violence, which he believes give rise to hidden racism in sectors of the United States.

I want to see this nation smile again and I want to see it before I go … to move to Ghana, ” said the 70-year-old singer in an interview with the television presenter.

I don’t want my kids ‘kids to have to say,’ Oh please like me please appreciate me please respect me i know i’m important please appreciate me‘What kind of (life is that)?’ Said the 25-time Grammy Award winner.

Wonder has been considering moving to Ghana since 1994, According to him Orlando Sentinel. At the time, the hitmaker told “I Just Called to Say I Love You” at a Washington meeting of the International African American Music Association that he had fallen in love with the country and that “there is more of a sense of community.”

Last month, In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the musician wrote an emotional letter to the historical leaderof civil rights and tackled the lack of racial progress since the struggle for equality that began in the United States in the mid-1950s.

“Dear Dr. King, I met you when I was 14,” he began. “You were a real hero and you became a source of inspiration.”

Wonder later said: “It is painful to know that the needle has not moved an iotaFor 36 years we’ve had a national holiday celebrating your birthdays and principles, but you wouldn’t believe the lack of progress. It makes me physically ill. I am tired of politicians trying to find an easy solution to a 400-year-old problem

The singer ended his letter with a call to action for “all in the Senate to speak the truth about what they know they can physically see and begin the steps to responsibility, forgiveness and then healing.”

The author of hits like ‘You Are the Sunshine of My Life’ or ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’ had already spoken out against events such as the murder of George Floyd last September, calling it: ‘The universe is watching us – Stevie Wonder in his feelings ”.

“As time goes by, it seems like a lot has changed. Much moves at a different pace. The way we work, live, love, meet and greet. Don’t you feel that we are changing the way we see and hear our lives and our reality?

You feel that there is a rhythm that sounds and is off. Even if you are not a musician, you can hear when the music is not correctCan you see that life is false? Do you feel like our reality is out of rhythm? We are not in syncHe stated.

Earlier, in September 2017, and after several incidents that happened in California, Oregon, New Orleans, Kentucky, and in Charlottesville, Virginia, caused by white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups, the musician knelt at a public event (Global Citizen Festival) and said :

“Tonight I will put one knee for America, but not just one knee, both knees, in prayer for our planet, our future, our leaders and our world,” he said.

The blind child wonders who believed in himself

Stevie Wonder He was born on May 13, 1950 in Steveland Morris in Saginaw, Michigan, and when he was three, his family moved to Detroit. His stepfather, Paul Hardaway, found work in a bagel factory, and his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, I clean houses. Growing up, he built a reputation in his neighborhood as the blind boy with an uncanny ability to play drums, piano, and harmonica. At the age of eight he became a solo singer with Whitestone Baptist Church. And last but not least, Ronnie White, member of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, saw the boy perform and informed Motown, the record label of the big stars of black pop music.

Little Stevie had boasted, “I can sing better than Smokey.” He was twelve years old. Motown has renamed it Little Stevie Wonder, and in 1963 the label released its first four albums in quick succession. It was # 1 in the ranking of best-selling albums in the United States (with no racial distinction), even above a group of four young frills from the United Kingdom known as The Beatles

In its heyday, Motown was known as Hit Factory (Hits Factory), but Wonder seems to have decided early on that he wanted something more than a spot in his novelty window. The company paid for some of his education by sending him to Michigan School for the Blind and providing him with a tutor on his travels. It had been repaired and polished during their teenage years. The label’s policy was to generate a frantic rhythm of singles releases – those little 45rpm records – to keep the ‘high-rotating’ part of the radio warm.

Sometime in the late 1960s, the young artist decided his future lay in the kind of statements he could make on “full length” albums (even doubles, quite a bold one by the standards of the African American music industry. At the moment)). When he turned twenty-one, in 1971, he reportedly received $ 1 million in late payments that Motown owed him. He moved from Detroit to New York; and changed the history of his music.

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