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"  Why in the world would anyone allow a dude from another country sing &amp;quot;God Bless America&amp;quot; at America&amp;#039;s favorite past-time?! These were the complaints from many Americans on Twitter after Puerto Rican-American Marc Anthony sang the song at the all-star game last week. Apparently, Anthony is just some &amp;quot;Mexican spic&amp;quot; who shouldn&amp;#039;t be given the right to sing the song.This is just as sickening as when the Mexican-American boy Sebastian de la Cruz sang the national anthem and got called a wetback and spic all over social media. Anthony recently appeared on Kelly and Michael Live and gave this badass statement: &amp;quot;There were some statements made that people were upset that they would have someone from another country sing the national anthem. Let&amp;#039;s get this straight. I was born and raised in New York. You can&amp;#039;t get more New York than me.&amp;quot; Booyah! For all of those haters, first of all, Marc Anthony is BORICUA not &amp;quot;Mexican&amp;quot; and he was born and raised in New York. Secondly, we can bet money he can sing that song better than a lot of artists out there, so who gives if he&amp;#039;s Latino? And last but not least, Latinos are expected to make up the majority of the population in just a couple decades (we just surpased that of whites in California), so it&amp;#039;s time to get used to viewing us as the Americans we are. Oh and PS, so many baseball players are Latinos, but is it not an issue that they play for American teams? Of course not, they help us get to championships and of course we love to win, right?? Oh...hypocrisy!\u00A0 \u00A0 \u00A0 Want more from Ariel? Follow her on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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