A Stormpilot Blog

“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.”

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John Boyega is one of the bravest people out there. He put everything on the line to speak out against racism. He used his platform to explicitly say where he stands, which is more than a lot of other people do. He said with his whole chest that racists can go fuck themselves and that he doesn’t want their support.

He stood against racism when he was cast as the male lead and co-protagonist in the sequel trilogy.

He stood with his co-star Daisy Ridley through all of harrasment she went through and supported her emotionally through the years as her friend. 

He stood against the hate Kelly Marie Tran and said she had deserved better while being her friend though it all.

He stood with Oscar in wanting more representation in Star Wars and always spoke his mind on it.

He started a production company, UpperRoom Productions, to give people who wouldn’t normally be given a shot at making it, a fighting chance. 

He stood against racism again when the blue check marks came after him for critizing TLJ on how his character Finn and Kelly’s Rose deserved better.

He stood against it again when he called out the toxicty surrounding Lucasfilm and the toxic people in the community who were coming after him for it.

And as of recently, he signed a deal with Netflix to promote films that will focus on West and East Africa.

Now he did it again by speaking out against the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department. 

John Boyega has always been speaking the truth and he’s put everything on the line time and time again. 

I haven’t drawn anything in awhile and really need to practice so here’s my attempt at turning Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs into Rey from Star Wars.