I am no Jedi

In my experience, just when you think you understand the Force, you find out how little you actually know.

“He wasn’t even supposed to come back and try to save your shit”

Vs his feelings on JJ Abrams

“I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race. Let’s just leave it like that. It makes you angry with a process like that. It makes you much more militant; it changes you. Because you realise, ‘I got given this opportunity but I’m in an industry that wasn’t even ready for me.’ Nobody else in the cast had people saying they were going to boycott the movie because [they were in it]. Nobody else had the uproar and death threats sent to their Instagram DMs and social media, saying, ‘Black this and black that and you shouldn’t be a Stormtrooper.’ Nobody else had that experience. But yet people are surprised that I’m this way. That’s my frustration.”

But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast – Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (“a brother from Guatemala”) – who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say he’s “crazy” or “making it up”, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take.”

They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.”

i hope people understand the racism john had to face left and right. in the studio and with white star wars fans, specifically those of you who are rey & kyle ryan fans (don’t want to say the name)

and if you as a rey-you-know-what weren’t “part of it” or never harassed john, you staying silent didn’t help

you can’t say “oh but he said this and that about daisy” when you all made it more than it was and tbh y’all just finally wanted an excuse not to like him so you didn’t look racist

everything that john went through was because of white people and racism. daisy and adam knew this, they knew they had all these opportunities outside of star wars in comparison to their BIPOC counterparts, but didn’t do anything

and we can’t argue saying “what if they did/say something behind closed doors” because that means shit

if daisy or adam or another white actor would have publicly defended john or spoke up during rehearsals or writing sessions or whatever, things could have gone differently

anyways, you as white people need to get your act together. y’all really do. stop getting defensive, stop playing the victim, but seriously take a step back and reevaluate your actions and words

and if any of this “offended” you, ask yourself why?

BIPOC can talk about this, HAVE been talking about this, but if you all don’t listen then we’ll never get anywhere