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Coming home
Globe and Mail writes that Bob Ezrin has renounced his U.S. citizenship and returned home to Toronto from Nashville. The paper quotes his motivation:
In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half. The voices of a radical right have become so much louder. Conspiracy theories abound, people are armed to the teeth, and it’s just a different place than the place I went to.
Ezrin moved to Los Angeles with his family back in 1985. He became a U.S. citizen in 1990 in order to vote.
I was very engaged, very involved, very committed. I believed in the country and I believed in the American people, in spite of things like the Iraq War and the income inequality I saw growing, and in spite of the racism that was knitted into the fabric of American life. I still believed the goodness of the majority of Americans would prevail.
The paper notes that Ezrin had already made his decision to return to Toronto before Trump declared a trade war on Canada and insinuated about making Canada the 51st state, insulting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor” in the process.
The article also lists Ezrin’s charitable activities — helping to distribute food from the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in LA; serving as chair of the California Mentoring Partnership and Los Angeles Communities in Schools; co-founding with Edge (of U2 fame) Music Rising, an initiative to replace musical instruments lost in natural disasters. After the 2005’s Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, he produced the concert for reopening of the city’s Superdome. In a recent announcement of the Governor General’s Award, Ezrin was cited as “a generous philanthropist and a passionate advocate for music education”.
Thanks to The Globe and Mail for the info and quotes, and to Gary Poronovich for the heads-up.
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