he wrote on social media. <\/b><\/a>\u201cTo some of us those words were deeply personal. My family came here because of those words. I was born here because of those words. I have had an extraordinary life because of those words. And now those words have lost their meaning. They are now abstract concepts used to inflict cruelty and suffering on the unsuspecting, the weak, the sick, the poor, the needy. We can add Purple Heart war veterans to that list as several have been deported already. This is America right now. <\/p>\n\u201cSome will tell me that I should leave the country or my favorite \u2018shut up and sing (A statement so void of any sense that it is impossible to execute),\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cOn the \u2018leaving\u2019 part \u2026 that may come true whether I want to leave or not. The way the new law stands my mother could be stripped of her naturalized citizenship, then my sister and I would be illegal birthright citizens and away we go. As far as \u2018shut up and sing\u2019 well, clearly that\u2019s not happening. You see the thing is this is my country too. Always has been. My country has been that beacon on the hill for so long and for so many.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malo was not through.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Lady Liberty\u2019s flame dims with every atrocity committed in her name, we will not be afraid of the dark,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe will find the light again.\u201d<\/p>\n
He encouraged his followers to \u201cthink about what the Stars and Stripes mean to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThink about the words that we\u2019re supposed to live by \u2026 The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, our Bill of Rights,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThink about the food you\u2019re eating. Who harvested the corn? Who picked the strawberries? Who raised the beef for this feast? How did the apples end up in this pie? Who built this beautiful house with the beautiful deck that your family is enjoying today? Think about it. This isn\u2019t about politics anymore. It\u2019s about humanity. It\u2019s about all of us. We, the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The beloved singer had long shared his cancer battle with fans, but in September he announced he also had leptomeningeal disease, for which there is no cure. <\/p>\n
\u201cDear Friends, I want to update you all on my health, as things have taken a turn,\u201d he wrote on Facebook. \u201cAs it goes with cancer, it\u2019s a very unpredictable and indiscriminatory disease. I\u2019ve developed something called LMD, which stands for \u2018get this (expletive) out of my head.\u2019 Treatment for this is radiation, which I will start tomorrow. We will probably jump into some chemo and are even looking at alternative therapies. But it\u2019s time to take to heart your words of resting & recovering, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country music world was heartbroken this week by the news that Raul Malo, the frontman for The Mavericks, had died. Malo, who was battling stage 4 colon cancer and leptomeningeal disease, passed away on Dec. 8. Malo, 60, shared his fight with fans until the end, and that created plenty of heartbreaking and, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[25423],"class_list":["post-2197604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197605,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197604\/revisions\/2197605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}