{"id":7997,"date":"2026-02-27T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:16:44","slug":"the-backlash-against-her-has-been-relentless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/?p=7997","title":{"rendered":"The backlash against her has been relentless\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Billie Eilish stepped onto the Grammy Awards stage and declared, \u201cNo one is illegal on stolen land,\u201d she likely expected applause\u2014and she received it. What followed, however, was a far more complicated national conversation that reached well beyond the music industry and into the lived realities of Indigenous peoples whose land her words invoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within days, the Tongva Tribe, the Native American people whose ancestral territory includes much of modern-day Los Angeles, issued a response\u2014measured, precise, and notably absent of outrage. Their statement did not demand restitution or spectacle. Instead, it sought clarity, recognition, and a deeper public understanding of what land acknowledgment truly means.\u201cAs grateful as I feel, I honestly don\u2019t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land,\u201d she said, before adding an explicit condemnation of ICE.<strong>READ MORE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdgfdgdfgdgf-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7388\" style=\"width:31px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdgfdgdfgdgf-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdgfdgdfgdgf-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Billie Eilish stepped onto the Grammy Awards stage and declared, \u201cNo one is illegal on stolen land,\u201d she likely expected applause\u2014and she received it. What followed,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7998,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashstorynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}