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On 2024-06-25 14:43:30 +0000, wallyhenness68@gmail.com said:
> In article <c307f9001e4d264286bdb977004c9e11@hamiltonhall.info>, 
> john@hamiltonhall.info wrote:
>> In article <v5brie$ujre$2@dont-email.me>, 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.