14 DAY TRIAL // Stevie Wonder is one of the many celebrities to react to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin but, unlike them, he’s also putting his money where his mouth is, as the saying goes.
While performing in Quebec the other day, Wonder announced his intention of turning down all offers to perform in Florida or any other US state or country in the world where the Stand Your Ground law applies.
You can see his announcement in the video above.
“I decided today that until the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again. As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world,” Wonder said.
“The truth is that — for those of you who’ve lost in the battle for justice, wherever that fits in any part of the world — we can’t bring them back. What we can do is we can let our voices be heard. And we can vote in our various countries throughout the world for change and equality for everybody. That’s what I know we can do,” he added.
Though the Stand Your Ground law wasn’t invoked in the Zimmerman trial, the juror who spoke to Anderson Cooper yesterday confirmed that jurors talked about it among themselves when reaching their verdict.