Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.disney.misc,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: "The Acolyte" Actress Sings About Being Oppressed Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:24:13 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 84 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:24:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="23b9bc721a7814f14b9b19fa0739a4f9"; logging-data="1814324"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185B+r5l7hcAjzpqmqqOOA3Rcrk574Lct8=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jgwXWUkR9lcfsrtUAplNM8IUQ7E= Bytes: 5515 On 2024-06-25 14:43:30 +0000, wallyhenness68@gmail.com said: > In article , > john@hamiltonhall.info wrote: >> In article , weberm@polaris.net wrote: >> >>> "Star Wars" actress Amandla Stenberg released a video of herself singing >>> about being oppressed. >>> >>> On Wednesday, the 25-year-old star of the new spinoff series "The Acolyte" >>> posted the song to her 2.3 million followers on Instagram, calling it a >>> response to the "discourse." >>> >>> Stenberg wrote in the caption, "Happy Juneteenth and to those who are >>> flooding me with intolerable racism -- since it took me 72 hours on my >>> laptop to make this song and video, u got 72 hours to respond. and I >>> expect choreo!!" >>> >>> The song opens with the actress dancing as the word "discourse" is >>> flashed on the screen. >>> >>> https://www.instagram.com/p/C8aorYEx2ZQ/ >>> >>> "I'm going viral on Twitter again. Open up the news to find some >>> interesting things. 20 million views. Interview from 2018 with Trevor >>> the King when I was thirteen," the lyrics say. This seems to refer to a >>> clip that went viral from an interview she did with Trevor Noah when >>> she was 20 years old. >>> >>> Stenberg sings, "I was running from city to city to speak on a story, you >>> know the one, police murdering a black boy. My people cried in the >>> theaters finding release. White people cried. They could see us as >>> human beings. Trevor ask what I want the people to know. I say white >>> people crying was the goal. If they could take one thing what would it >>> be? I say empathy. Ooooo that's why they mad at me?" >>> >>> The song goes on, "They splice lines, make hate they recognize, make it >>> look like the same propaganda they spew 'cause they conflate our pain >>> with >>> violence and try to weaponize everything that we do. The desperation of >>> oppressors is rising and now they holding onto any ole thing they can >>> use. If you rely upon misinformation then that tells me you afraid of >>> the truth." >>> >>> Then the line "We so bored, don't f*** with your discourse" is repeated >>> over and over. >>> >>> Stenberg's song dishes up more anger in the next lines. "And now you >>> listening imma tell you something fascinating. They spinning woke. >>> Bastardize it and appropriate it. Last I recall woke was something we >>> created. Speak truth to power. Keep an eye out for you silly racists. >>> And now they use it to describe anything they threatened by. Remember >>> when Gambino put it in the zeitgeist? It was all about the people >>> recognizing bigotry. The power of community not fodder for your >>> clickbait." >>> >>> She adds, "Speaking of which, journalists I'm looking at you. Did you >>> forget it's your job to provide the truth? Spreading divisiveness, >>> mining the metrics and data, seems you gave up all your ethics for >>> money and views. And I can tell that the people are tired and the kids >>> don't trust anything that they view. We can learn something from their >>> discernment. The future's coming and it's always the youth," the >>> actress sings. >>> >>> Stenberg concludes, "My sis said don't let it get to my spirit, but I'm >>> sick and f***ing tired of suppressing my rage. 400 years of taking >>> their bulls**t to compartmentalize like my ancestors had to encaged? If >>> you don't confront the pain that you live with, it'll manifest as >>> addiction diseases and hate. I've seen the infection repression can >>> give ya. I'm not gonna be the next one sent to an early grave." >> >> I love that the half Danish woman, who attended an exclusive private school >> beginning at age 10, who has lived in the lap of luxury while enjoying the >> most privileged lifestyle imaginable, is lecturing people who didn't enjoy >> her TV show about their supposed issues. This ridiculous character is >> torpedoing her own career faster than Rachel Ziegler, and that's saying >> something. > > This little girl has never been oppressed a nano second of her life. STFU! Neither have 95+% of the other Politically Correct idiots whinging on about supposed "equality" when in reality they simply want special treatment just for them.