"I want a better life. I want to help my family. I want to be able to work, look for a good job.""Recently enough, I was badly beaten,"said My father had no real plan except to become an integral part of the community. And he did just that: He was there for any birth, accident, or anything else requiring surgery. The rare times he wasn’t available to perform his duties, he paid for his friend from Duluth — a German immigrant — to take over. He and Dr. Boecker were both immigrant doctors, holding positions no Americans wanted. The song in and of itself was powerful, as he was joined by celebrities and suicide survivors onstage. But after the performance, he went one step further with a speech that received a ton of praise online. "I just want to take a moment right now and thank you all so much for giving me a platform to talk about something that mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about: Mental health, anxiety, suicide, depression, and so much more that I talk about on this album," he said, going on to talk about identity and equality. "From racism, discrimination, sexism, domestic violence, sexual assault, and so much more. I don’t give a damn if you’re black, white, or any color in between. I don’t care if you’re Christian, you’re Muslim, you’re gay, you’re straight, I am here to fight for your equality." 2,000 to 6,000 people were expected to show up, leading the Southern Poverty Law Center to say it could be the "largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States."