A video featuring migrant key workers in the UK is celebrating the contribution of the immigration as the country battles with the spread of coronavirus.
‘You Clap For Me Now’ penned by Darren Smith and produced by Sachini Imbuldeniya celebrates Britons from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds serving the UK as essential workers as doctors, nurses, teachers, shopkeepers and delivery drivers, many of whom have previously experienced discrimination.
It features first, second and third generation migrants in the UK reading out parts of the poem, which they filmed themselves because of social distancing guidelines. In a stark argument to the right-wing propaganda and rhetoric around immigrants taking away “British jobs”, the poem begins with:
'What the UK is most afraid of has come from overseas, taking our jobs and making it unsafe to walk the streets.'
In a political criticism to those against asylum seekers and refugees, the poetry includes the verse:
"Don't say go home, don't say not here, you know how it feels for home to be a prison, you know how it feels to live in fear.”
Watch the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/og-IH5PSMz4?feature=oembed
