Actress and singer Janelle Monae called out Republicans and warned that people like her would “challenge” President Donald Trump like the bully on the schoolyard.
Monae won the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Equality Award in Los Angeles over the weekend. In her speech to LGBTQ organizations, she promoted the way she used her art to create “safe spaces” for marginalized people, and gave them a rationale to do so.
She shared anecdotes about being bullied in school until she challenged the bully to the fight. When her bullies eventually retreated from the conflict, Monae said from that point on, she took to heart, “Only when we think they can do it, the bullies win.”
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Singer Janelle Monae compared President Trump and his Republican allies to schoolyard bullies in her speech.
The outspoken progressive Monae claimed that Trump and the Republicans are acting in multiple ways, like bullies.
“There's the truth here, so bullying doesn't stop growing. It doesn't end when you leave school, it just gets bigger. It's rebranding itself,” she said. “Bullies are elected president. Bullying writes laws and connections with other bullies, and bullying is now happening through law. Now we're watching those bullies link up and come to the community.”
“I am proud to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community. I am proud to be a part of the pansexual, non-binary and working-class community. I am proud to be a part of the black community,” she said. “So it's infuriating to see them trying to take away our human rights, erase our identity, remove our healthcare, defeat our freedom of reproduction, attack our voting rights, pollute our air and water, and eliminate federal work.
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Janelle Monae said our country cannot continue the day without immigration. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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She praised the service workers and immigrants, adding that our world would collapse without them.
“Instead of being paid with dignity and respect, we saw them being bullied by the very system that could not last a day without them. We have nothing without you,” she said.
She also praised the work of the hosting organization, declaring, “We are grateful that HRC has mercilessly challenged the evil giants, bullies, those who stomp us, tease us, erase us, and want to tire us until the fight doesn't go.”
Monae gathered the crowd and asked if he was ready to unite with the underdogs of society.
“Let's make it clear that we're going to challenge the giants,” Monae said as he finished his speech.
