Last week Meryl Streep took her moment at the Golden Globes to make an impressive speech about future President Donald Trump. Of course her speech has gotten a lot of backlash from people. People are saying "hollywood needs to stay out of politics." I did not know your occupation declared whether or not you could speak out about politics. I did not know that because you are a celebrity you had no right to care about issues or who your President is. How dare she care. How dare she speak up and have an opinion. Shame on you.
Meryl Streep started her speech out explaining what Hollywood was. She stated that everyone was from all over the place. She explained that people came from all over the world and they ended up in Hollywood. She explained that their job is to come into the hearts of different types of people. She goes on to discuss the events where Donald Trump made fun of a disabled person and how wrong it was. She goes on to reach out to press and asks them to call out Trump. She wants the press to fight back honestly. She never directly says Trumps name. She ends the speech quoting Carrie Fisher "Take your broken heart and make it art".
Donald Trump was not pleased with the speech that took place at the Golden Globes. Trump responded to the speech via Twitter saying that Meryl Streep was an "overrated actress" and "she is a Hillary flunky who lost big". He also explains that the events of him making fun of a disabled person was not true and blamed the press for taking it out of context. It was a situation that probably should not have been responded to which proves her speech only right.
Meryl Streep is not the only celebrity to speak out about political issues. Clint Eastwood is a conservative who has spoken out many times about his views, Mel Gibson has no problem expressing his opinions, and many celebrities are activist who make their opinions known. It is not an uncommon thing for celebrities to speak out about issues going on in the world. I find it odd that people respond to them speaking out by saying "hollywood needs to stay out of politics". Celebrities are people too and are entitled to their opinions. The laws that get passed play a role in celebrities lives too therefore they have a right to care. They have a right to care and advocate because they live in this country. That is what makes our country so great we are allowed to have opinions and speak out about what we like and dislike. The truth is celebrities doing things like what Meryl Streep did makes people care and brings attention to things going on in the world.
Moral of the story, folks: Celebrities are people too and politics play a role in their lives just like they do us. No one should feel they have to be silenced. Like, Streep quoted "take your broken heart and make it art". She took her broken heart about this election and made it art. You as an American citizen have the right to disagree with her, which is awesome, but you should not belittle her because she does not have the same view points as yours.
