‘Star Wars’ Fires Back Against Racist Messages Sent to ‘Obi-Wan’ Star Moses Ingram
thewrap.com“Obi-Wan Kenobi” last week, where she stars as Reva, the Inquisitor. Reva is obsessed with hunting down Obi-Wan to bring him to Darth Vader; apparently, she believes that she’ll get “what I’m owed” if she does.
She’s ruthless and strategic, taking down anyone who gets in the way of her goals (as any Sith would).“We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Reva’s story to unfold,” the official “Star Wars” account tweeted on Monday. “If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist.”The account then followed up with a sassier tweet, saying “There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist.”There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist.The official response from Lucasfilm comes after Ingram posted some of the horrible messages she’s received to her Instagram story.
People wrote things like “You’re a diversity hire and you won’t be loved or remembered for this role” and “You have now been converted into the Saint George of Floydium of Star Wars, are you happy.”“Long story short, there are hundreds of those.
Hundreds,” Ingram said in a follow-up video. “I think the thing that bothers me is that like, sort of this feeling that I’ve had inside of myself — which no one has told me — but this feeling of like, I just gotta shut up and take it, you know?
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