Posted on 04/18/2015 11:45:21 AM PDT by drewh
Hunger Games’ actress Amandla Stenberg is upset with Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and other celebrities for their (mis)appropriation of black culture. Click inside to WATCH.
Amandla Stenberg, 16, recorded a video for her friends, classmates, and the world that sends a powerful message about how black culture has gone mainstream without actually being accepted by others. In the video, she calls out Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and Katy Perry for being white musicians who adopting parts of black culture to be “edgy” and “gain attention.”
Amandla Stenberg Slams Miley Cyrus For Using Black Women As ‘Props’
You might remember Amandla from her role as fan-favorite Rue in The Hunger Games film, but now you’ll remember her for the powerful message she put on social media. In short, her 4-minute long video sets the record straight about where so many trends abused by society originated from: black culture.
“Pop stars and icons adopted black culture as a way of being edgy and gaining attention,” Amandla states, before calling out Miley. “In 2013, Miley Cyrus twerks and uses black women as props,” Amandla said, blasting the singer for her “We Can’t Stop” music video. WATCH: Amandla’s Full Video Slamming Miley & Others Miley Cyrus Boyfriend Caught Cheating Hollywood Life
Then, Amandla goes on to list all the ways Katy, Taylor, and others have relied on black culture in their careers. Do you agree with Amandla's message? Yes, totally.No, not at all. VoteView ResultsPolldaddy.com
“Katy Perry uses ebonics, hand gestures, eats watermelons, while wearing cornrows before cutting, inexplicably, to a picture of Aretha Franklin,” Amandla says, referring to Katy’s “This Is How We Do” video. Yikes. Amandla: Azealia Banks Sends The Right Message
As the video continues, Amandla praises controversial rapper Azealia Banks for calling out other celebrities and artists who adopted “blackness” for not voicing their support during the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the recent police brutality. The video then cuts to Azealia Banks doing an interview in which she calls the adoption of her culture without the support against racism a “cultural smudging.”
Amandla then continues, “Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves.”
Easy solution. Don’t hire Blacks, then you won’t be accused of using them as ‘props’.
Personally, I'm looking forward to America de-emphasizing it a bit.
I know, that makes me a baad man.
Little girl flapping her gums. ((Shrug))
There are so many amusing things about liberals between the lines in this article that it’s hard to know where to start. Personally, I think both sides should be given weapons, tossed in an arena, and made to sort it out.
She does have a point, it always bothers me seeing these lily white celebs who in real life want nothing to do with the ghetto trash getting all ghettoed up in their videos.
Yeah, because when I think of Cyrus, Perry, and Swift, I think of black culture.
Cannibalism on the Left. The inevitable outcome of intentional racial division and class warfare by their Democrat masters.
Black America is realizing Obama’s Hope and Change did nothing to advance their cause, and will be lashing out at white liberals, Jews, Hispanics and Asians.
LIBERAL lunacy mindset in it's infancy.
Another day, another Leftist windbag...
When will America have had enough.
A greater hive of scum and villainy you will not find.
Honestly, I think the pendulum has finally changed directions.
With the right guy in the White House, this nation will again be unrecognizable to what it is today, in ten years.
The Democratic Party has been using Blacks as props and much worse throughout our nation’s history.
Circle of life, Simba, circle of life ...
“It’s a bug-eat-bug world out there, Princess. One of those “circle of life” kind of things.” - Hopper (A Bug’s Life)
So it goes ...
Amandla Stenberg Slams Miley Cyrus For Using Black Women As ‘Props’
Not using props as props... what a concept...
TV Commercial’s do it all the time... so do TV Shows and movies..
Must be extremely GOOD for me to watch anything with a black in it.. or even a mulatto..
However; there are a few good black actors.. a very few...
The White House is a BLACK Hole... no light can escape..
If they used white women they would be slammed for
discriminating against blacks.
Blacks have been whining so much for so long it is just like white noise in the background.
No one pays attention to it.
Or the racialists' whining will surely become a self fulfilling prophecy.
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