Appearance panel stack problem

this is probably common sense, but for the life of me i cant figure it out.
I have a simple text. In the appearance panel, the "eyes" are greyed out and i cant add effects, nor can i change the stack order.
However i create a simple rectangle and i am able to do it.
what is the problem here?

If you plan on applying the same attributes to your entire selection of text, I recommend  selecting your charachters with the type tool and setting your fill & strokes to none.
Then as per Wade  change to a selection tool and begin applying your strokes and fills
At type level you can move fill to the top, add multiple strokes which now go outwards, etc. The type level overides the character, but I still like to clean character level out to none to keep my files clean and not have problems with removing unused colors and such.

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