“The Acolyte” singer Amandla Stenberg responds to critics with original song for Juneteenth and calls dissatisfied Star Wars fans “stupid racists”
Admittedly one of the most unusual ways of responding to critics that one has seen in recent times, The Acolyte Lead actress Amandla Stenberg wrote her own song to express her dissatisfaction with Star Wars fans who are unhappy with the direction of the series.
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Titled discourseThe track was released by the actress on June 19th – also known as Juneteenth – via her personal Instagram and, as Stenberg herself explained, was intended as a “response” to her allegedly racist critics.
“Happy Juneteenth 🖤,” wrote The Acolyte Star. “And to those who are bombarding me with unbearable racism – since it took me 72 hours on my laptop to make this song and this video, you have 72 hours to respond. And I expect (choreography)!”
The song plays over black-and-white footage of Stenberg walking through the streets of Brooklyn, both singing and dancing. It begins with the actress clarifying that her previous admission that the goal of her 2018 film was to “make white people cry,” The hate you give was intended more as a call for empathy rather than a desire to see the population in question actually suffer.
“I’m going viral on Twitter again / Turning up the news to find interesting things / 20 million views / Interview from 2018 / With Trevor (Noah) the King when I was a teenager / I ran from town to town to speak to a story / You know the one: police murdering black boy / My people cried in theaters to find redemption / White people cried because they could see us as human / Trevor asks what I want to communicate to people / I say the goal was to make white people cry / If they could take one thing away, what would it be? / I say: empathy.”
Stenberg expresses the following opinion on this: “Ooooo, that’s why they mad at me? / They string together lines and create hate they recognize / Make it look like the same propaganda they spread themselves / Because they mistake our pain for violence / And try to weaponize everything we do / The oppressors’ desperation is growing / And now they’re holding on to anything they can use / If you rely on misinformation / Then I know you’re afraid of the truth.”
Then the simple chorus of the song begins: “We so bored / don’t f–k with yo discourse.”
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From there, Stenberg then examines the evolution of the word “woke,” which has evolved from a term used exclusively by black people in connection with awareness of the various forms of their socioeconomic oppression to a commonly used shorthand meaning “performatively liberal.”
“And now that you’re listening, I’ll tell you something fascinating / They twist ‘woke,’ distort it, and appropriate it / As far as I remember, woke was something we created / Speak truth to power / Watch yourself, you stupid racist / And now they’re using it to describe everything they threatened to do / Remember when (Childish) Gambino brought it into the zeitgeist? (about his 2016 song Red Bone) / It was about people recognizing bigotry / The power of community / Not fodder for your clickbait.”
“Speaking of journalists, I’m looking at you / Have you forgotten it’s your job to tell the truth? / You spread division by parsing metrics and data / Seems like you gave up all your ethics for money and opinions / And I can tell the people are tired / And the kids don’t trust anything they see / We can learn something from their judgement / The future is coming and it’s always the youth.”
After a final chorus, Stenberg ends the song with a personal insight into why she decided to write this song in the first place.
“My sister said don’t let it discourage you / But I’m sick and fucking tired of suppressing my anger / 400 years of listening to her bullshit / Putting me in boxes like my ancestors had to / If you don’t face the pain you live with / It will manifest as addiction and hate / I’ve seen the infection that suppression can cause / I won’t be the next one sent to an early grave.”
As the old saying goes, “That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for you.”
The fifth episode of The Acolyte is currently set to seize power on June 25th.
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