Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants.
We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.
Yes. That is exactly why we exist.
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The elections are coming. We'll be here.
Arsenal fans, if you’re feeling “it’s okay. The celebrations are enough, let’s rest the matter”, just imagine what the entire world would have done to us if we bottled the league this year.
Think about that then start your celebrations afresh.
You cannot rehabilitate a person that beheads a person.
You cannot rehabilitate someone that offs people for sport.
You cannot rehabilitate someone that kidnaps and rapes children.
Whenever you cannot decide, it is important to remember that it is often better to make a wrong choice, learn from it and move on than sit in the purgatory of analysis paralysis. That’s the real torture.
Eid Mubarak to the hospitalized, the unjustly imprisoned, the displaced, the refugees, the homeless, the grieving, the workers who had to spend it away from their families, and anyone who woke up to no one wishing them a blessed Eid.
May Allah lift all of your burdens.
Today is World Sickle Cell Day.
And today, I’m proud to announce something that’s deeply personal to me.
We’re starting small by providing free health insurance to 1,000 people living with sickle cell in Lagos State.
But this is only the beginning.