Samuel L. Jackson Challenges Celebrities To The Ice Bucket Challenge Of Racism

Remember all those celebrities who poured ice water on their heads this past summer? Samuel L. Jackson does, and he has a new challenge for them. In a YouTube video posted on his Facebook page Saturday, the Jedi Master/Nick Fury/BAMF challenged celebrities to sing the "We Ain't Gonna Stop Till People Are Free" song. At the time of publication, the Facebook post had 1.7 million views and had been shared 54,000 times.

Written by Luke Nephew of the Peace Poets, the song has become the anthem of the recent anti-police-brutality protests across the country. The lyrics, inspired by the last words of Eric Garner, who was killed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer in July, have resonated with the thousands of protestors who have taken to the streets in the aftermath of the two consecutive grand jury decisions not to indict the officers involved in the deaths of Garner and Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, in early August. The Peace Poets released a video of "I Can't Breathe" on Thursday, using footage from protests in New York, Ferguson and Oakland, California. They are as follows:

I still hear my brother crying -- "I can't breathe"
Now I'm in the struggle singing -- "I can't leave"
We calling out the violence of these racist police
And we ain't gonna stop -- 'til our people are free!

While the "Samuel L Jackson Challenge" (also referred to as the "We Ain't Gonna Stop" or "I Can't Breathe" song) has been widely shared on social media, celebrities have been slow to respond with their voices.

The politically active Right Said Fred accepted the challenge on Sunday with an acoustic version:

Dru Hill released their a capella version on Sunday as well. After the song, singer Nokio points to the camera, adding, "The police beat my father, God rest his soul. It ends today."

More celebrities -- as well as some not-so-famous Internet personalities -- have uploaded responses to Jackson's call to action. Jay Tee Wilcoxson, Fiona L. Malloy, Kitten Kuroi, MTV's The Waatcher, Misee Harris and Naomi King all recorded themselves singing, while others have remixed Jackson's original video. Watch some of the best video responses below:

BONUS VIDEO: A group of protesters on their way to a rally immediately after the Eric Garner grand jury announcement lead an entire A train subway car in rounds of the song. The video was posted to Facebook by John Gibbons.