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🗓️ 20 June 2024
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Star Wars: The Acolyte lead actress Amandla Stenberg has responded to backlash over the show and her viral 2018 comments about ‘making white people cry’ being the goal of her previous film at the time with a music video addressed to the racist oppressor haters. Let’s watch and react.
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0:00.0 | So famous actress Amanda Lestenburg is clapping back at critiques and backlaps that she's receiving on the internet |
0:06.0 | and she's calling her critics racist, bigots, calling them oppressors, and she's responded in the form of a song and today we're going to talk about the controversy that led to this song and respond to the song itself. |
0:18.8 | Now one of you I got to shout you out let me know about this and tagged me on this on Twitter and I'll show you right here |
0:25.8 | You said omele epinobe please ring her out and I had to respond with my little salute I don't know that I'm to ring her out and I'll tell you why. I have a soft spot in my heart for Amanda |
0:36.3 | Stenberg and it's because she's been a celebrity that's really popped up in blips in my life and I see a lot of my former self within her and I'll have to show you a |
0:45.4 | picture of my former self so you understand that will pop it up on the screen and |
0:49.9 | you'll see it especially once we get to the music video here. |
0:53.0 | But yeah, Amanda Lestenberg, you'll recognize her face. |
0:55.6 | She was Rue in the first Hunger Games movie. |
0:57.8 | She's been in other films like Bodies, Bodies, |
1:00.7 | everything, everything. |
1:01.8 | And most recently she was cast as the star in Star Wars, |
1:05.2 | The Acolyte, the new streaming series that they have on Disney Plus. Now we've been watching |
1:09.1 | the Acolyte and responding to all the different episodes and you know that it's a woke show so they had to have a woke actress play |
1:16.2 | the lead roles of May and OSHA and that's a mandala Stenberg. She has a long |
1:21.0 | history of activism particularly in the realm of race, talking about her blackness and being a person of color and how that affects her and others within her community. |
1:30.0 | So it's no surprise that we're now dealing with this side of Amanda. Now let's talk about the |
1:37.2 | controversy and the background that led to this new music video before we watch the music video. |
1:41.8 | In 2018 I believe Amandaa Stenberg was on Trevor Noah's show doing press for her movie, The Hate You Give. |
1:48.8 | Now The Hate You Give is a movie that was a book originally that surrounds the idea of police brutality and specifically |
1:56.2 | the killing of a young unarmed black man and a mandala plays a lead female role who is one of the |
2:02.0 | friends of this black man who ends up losing his life. |
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