Stevie Wonder shares Black Lives Matter video and references Trump: ‘It’s a bad day when I can see better than your 2020 vision’

Artist urged fans to vote in the forthcoming 2020 presidential election

Stevie Wonder has urged his fans to keep the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement going.

In a video titled “The Universe is Watching US”, the “Superstition” artist issued a number of comments on racism and politics in the US.

“It’s a bad day when I can see better than your 2020 vision,” he said, as he condemned North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii for being the only three states not to recognise Juneteenth, the day slavery ended in America.

“How did it feel to celebrate freedom that we’re still fighting for? Hm, it felt and feels too familiar. I know that dance, I’ve heard those songs.”

The singer added, “What I’d like to know, is when will the day come when we let hate go or do I have to concede that for human beings it’s just impossible.”

“If life can have an ending, all things can have an ending. Systemic racism can have an ending. Police brutality can have an ending. Economic oppression for black American people can have an ending. A movement of inaction is a movement standing still. To those who say they care, move more than your mouth.”

The 70-year-old then encouraged his fans to “move your feet to the polls and move your hands to vote” for the 2020 presidential election, which takes place in the US this November.

“I’ve heard the person in the highest place of this nation say, ‘There are fine people on both sides.’ That sounds noncommittal to me,” he said, in reference to US president Donald Trump.

“’I have a great relationship with the Blacks.’ Peaceful protesters called ‘thugs,’ immigrants called ‘rapists.’ And from the very place that civilisation began, Africa, I’ve heard this Commander-in-Chief call it an s***hole. Wow. One day, you will surely be sorry.”