First things first, if you haven't watched this music videos a thousand times like I have, then I don't know if we can be friends. If you get anything from this article, at least you can say you had awesome background music.
On December 2nd, 2016, The Hamilton Mixtape was released and included some of my favorite versions of the fantastic show, "Hamilton. The Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)" music video was released this past week, and its social impact is just starting. Lin-Manuel Miranda and the director of the music video, Tomás Whitmore, have created a video that is set almost entirely on a train, filled with immigrants. Families and friends, working and living together to create a community, a safe space, for themselves.
While people everywhere are taking part in the fundraiser challenge for Immigrants: We Get The Job Done Coalition, I myself don't plan to make a video and hashtag it Ham4All. That comes more from my lack of ability to sing rather than my love for Hamilton (see bio below). Still, I think its great that there is a positive movement in relation to immigrants. The word itself seems to hold such a negative connotation, but as the song says, "it's really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants, 'immigrant' has somehow become a bad word."
I do not intend to make this a political post at all, but it is true that this video struck me in a very intense way. Immigration is a sensitive topic, but at the end of the day, it all comes down to people. I pray that each and every person finds the solace that they are all searching for, and that positive change will happen soon.
