{"id":10521,"date":"2022-06-01T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=10521"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:23:15","slug":"moses-ingram-star-wars-franchise-respond-to-racist-postings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=10521","title":{"rendered":"Moses Ingram, &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; Franchise Respond to Racist Postings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>There is no place for racism in the <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> galaxy, declares the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise, responding to the \u201chundreds\u201d of offensive messages that actor Moses Ingram has been receiving. Ingram, who is Black, recently made her debut as Reva in the Disney+ series <strong><em>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Ingram had posted to Instagram a sampling of racist messages she\u2019d received from anonymous critics, including many using the N-word. In her commentary, she stressed that she was not the kind of person to take this abuse without protest.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThe thing that bothers me is \u2026 this feeling of like, I just gotta shut up and take it, I just have to grin and bear it. And I\u2019m not built like that. Thank you to the people who show up for me in the comments and in the places that I\u2019m not going to put myself. And to the rest of y\u2019all, y\u2019all weird.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>In her posting, Ingram lamented that \u201cThere\u2019s nothing anybody can do about this. There\u2019s nothing anybody can do to stop this hate.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Ingram&#8217;s colleagues immediately came to her defense, with the franchise itself tweeting that it was \u201cproud to welcome\u201d her in the role of Reva.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"paragraph\">\u201cIf anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist. \u2026 There are more than 20 million sentient species in the<em><strong> Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> galaxy, don\u2019t choose to be a racist,&#8221; the franchise stated.<\/p>\r\n<p>Ewan McGregor, who plays the lead in the<em> <strong>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/strong><\/em> series, also came forcefully to Ingram\u2019s defense in a video he posted this week. \u201cMoses is a brilliant actor. She is a brilliant woman. And she is absolutely amazing in this series. She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise. And it just sickened me to my stomach that this had been happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cI just want to say, as the lead actor in the series, as the executive producer on the series, that we stand with Moses. We love Moses. And if you\u2019re sending her bullying messages, you\u2019re no Star Wars fan in my mind. There\u2019s no place for racism in this world. And I totally stand with Moses.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Moses has not been the only target of intergalactic racist comments. Both John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran were also the brunt of bigoted remarks when they appeared in earlier <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> films.<\/p>\r\n<p>Deborah Chow is the director of the <em><strong>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/strong><\/em> series, which stars Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader. The series premiered on May 27 and will stream weekly on Wednesdays until the finale on June 22. <br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no place for racism in the Star Wars galaxy, declares the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise, responding to the \u201chundreds\u201d of offensive messages that actor Moses Ingram has been receiving. Ingram, who is Black, recently made her debut as Reva in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi. 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