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Ohio native and famous musician John Legend urges hometown to embrace Haitian immigrants,’Nobody’s Eating Cats and Dogs’

By Oliver Kerry,

15 hours ago

John Legend has urged his hometown of Springfield, Ohio, to embrace Haitian immigrants in a video response to claims mentioned by former President Donald Trump that they were eating locals’ cats and dogs.

Trump mentioned the unsubstantiated rumor during his TV debate with Kamala Harris. Its source was traced to a Facebook post by NewsGuard .

Addressing the claim, Legend said, “Nobody’s eating cats. Nobody’s eating dogs.”

Legend said Springfield’s need for workers resulted in a large number of Haitian immigrants arriving.

Acknowledging that the population of the town had increased by 25 percent, Legend called the challenges “growing pains,” mentioning the “new language, new culture, and new dietary preferences” of newcomers.

He pointed to past immigration by German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Polish ancestors, all chasing the “American Dream”.

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shortcake

8h ago

Like I said Mr. Legend you are irrelevant when your left to make millions and don’t care before about the our town until now because why because it makes you look special to run that hole in your face you don’t get the right to tell me what to do if I don’t want to participate with them here I don’t have to so GTFOH

Guest

8h ago

how many you got living with you,? none then your a loser too

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