Amandla Stenberg releases song in response to ‘intolerated racism’

Amandla Stenberg addresses racist trolls in her latest song.

The actress, who currently stars in the “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte,” released a song titled “Discourse,” which addresses the “unbearable racism” she has experienced. The 25-year-old premiered the song there Instagram Wednesday to have fun June eleventh.

“Happy Juneteenth and to those who shower me with unbearable racism – because it took me 72 hours to create this song and video on a laptop, you have 72 hours to respond. and I expect choreography!!” she wrote alongside the song’s music video.

In the video, Stenberg wears a black bandeau crop top and denim shorts, putting her natural afro on full display. The camera zooms in on her before she starts dancing and singing.

“Discourse” begins with a reference to a 2018 interview with Trevor Noah in which Stenberg stated that “white people crying was actually the point” of “The Hate U Give,” a movie she starred in a few police murder black child.

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“They connect the lines, they make the hate recognizable, they make it look like the same propaganda they preach, because they confuse our pain with violence and try to weaponize everything we do,” Stenberg sings. “The desperation of the pursuers is growing and now they are clinging to anything they can use. If you respond to disinformation, it means you are afraid of the truth.”

She also called attention to right-wing media’s use of the word “woke,” turning what was once a positive term for Black people into something evil and negative.

“They woke up, corrupted and appropriated it,” Stenberg sings. “Last I remember, wokeness was something we created. Speak truth to power. Watch out for you silly racists and now they’re using it to describe all the pieces they threatened them with.

He then sings about Childish Gambino’s “stay wake” lyric in his 2016 song “Redbone,” singing that the road “is about people acknowledging bigotry.”

“The power of community,” Stenberg croons, “not fodder for clickbait.”