{"id":2272808,"date":"2024-06-20T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-acolyte-actress-sings-about-being-oppressed\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:59:04","slug":"the-acolyte-actress-sings-about-being-oppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-acolyte-actress-sings-about-being-oppressed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Acolyte\u2019 Actress Performs Song on Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-acolyte-actress-sings-about-being-oppressed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2272808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Amandla Stenberg, a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; actress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sephora-cuts-ties-with-beauty-influencer-for-being-a-conservative-says-republicans-arent-aligned-with-their-values\/\" title=\"Sephora Cuts Ties With Beauty Influencer for Being a Conservative, Says Republicans \u2018Aren\u2019t Aligned\u2019 With Their Values\">recently shared<\/a> a video on Instagram where she sings about her experiences of oppression.\u200d The 25-year-old star of the upcoming spinoff series\u200d &#8220;The Acolyte&#8221; shared the song with her 2.3 \u200bmillion followers as a\u2064 reaction to recent societal &#8220;discourse.&#8221; In her post, Stenberg, marking Juneteenth, also addressed those\u200d sending\u200d her racist messages, stating\u200d that she spent 72 hours creating the\u200b song and video, and \u2062humorously challenged her critics to respond with choreography within\u200d three days.<\/p>\n<p>The video features Stenberg \u200bdancing\u2063 as the word &#8220;discourse&#8221;\u200b appears, and\u2064 the song \u200dreferences \u2063a past viral moment from an interview with Trevor Noah, discussing\u200b racial issues. The lyrics touch on her activism and \u2062the\u2063 emotional reactions of\u2062 audiences to films about police violence against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-who-trash-their-family-in-public-cant-be-trusted\/\" title=\"Don't trust those who publicly criticize their own family.\">black\u200c people<\/a>, suggesting that \u200cevoking empathy \u2062was her\u200b goal, which she reasons \u200dmight be why\u200c she faces backlash.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/star-wars\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Star Wars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d actress <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amandla Stenberg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  released a video of herself singing about being oppressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Wednesday, the 25-year-old star of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-bryan-cranston-nailed-by-line-drive-at-all-star-celeb-softball-game\/\" title=\"Actor Bryan Cranston Nailed by Line Drive at All-Star Celeb Softball Game\">spinoff series \u201c<\/a>The Acolyte\u201d posted the song to her 2.3 million followers on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/instagram\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, calling it a response to the \u201cdiscourse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stenberg wrote in the caption, \u201cHappy Juneteenth and to those who are flooding me with intolerable racism \u2014 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!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song opens with the actress dancing as the word \u201cdiscourse\u201d is flashed on the screen. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 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Open up the news to find some interesting things. 20 million views. Interview from 2018 with Trevor the King when I was thirteen,\u201d the lyrics say. This seems to refer to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-people-crying-was-the-goal-old-clip-of-the-acolyte-actress-goes-viral-ignites-backlash\">clip that went viral<\/a> from an interview she did with Trevor Noah when she was 20 years old. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stenberg sings, \u201cI 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-people-crying-was-the-goal-old-clip-of-the-acolyte-actress-goes-viral-ignites-backlash\/\" title=\"The Acolyte Actress Sparks Controversy with Old Clip Featuring White Tears\">white people crying<\/a> was the goal. If they could take one thing what would it be? I say empathy. Ooooo that\u2019s why they mad at me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song goes on, \u201cThey splice lines, make hate they recognize, make it look like the same propaganda they spew \u2019cause 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then the line \u201cWe so bored, don\u2019t f*** with your discourse\u201d is repeated over and over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stenberg\u2019s song dishes up more anger in the next lines. \u201cAnd 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She adds, \u201cSpeaking of which, journalists I\u2019m looking at you. Did you forget it\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-millions-not-in-school-biden-tells-girl-that-kids-are-safest-group-of-people-in-the-world\/\" title=\"While Millions Not In School, Biden Tells Girl That Kids Are \u2018Safest Group Of People In The World\u2019\">kids don\u2019<\/a>t trust anything that they view. We can learn something from their discernment. The future\u2019s coming and it\u2019s always the youth,\u201d the actress sings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stenberg concludes, \u201cMy sis said don\u2019t let it get to my spirit, but I\u2019m 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\u2019t confront the pain that you live with, it\u2019ll manifest as addiction diseases and hate. I\u2019ve seen the infection repression can give ya. I\u2019m not gonna be the next one sent to an early grave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars&#8221; actress Amandla Stenberg shared a video on Instagram, singing about oppression. 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