{"id":31032,"date":"2022-05-31T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/star-wars-stands-with-obi-wan-kenobis-moses-ingram-amid-racist-backlash\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:46:16","slug":"star-wars-stands-with-obi-wan-kenobis-moses-ingram-amid-racist-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/star-wars-stands-with-obi-wan-kenobis-moses-ingram-amid-racist-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars stands with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Moses Ingram amid racist backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"
In response to a swift and all too predictable wave of racist backlash from Star Wars<\/em> <\/em>\u201cFans\u201d dismayed by the idea of \u200b\u200bBlack people existing in space, Disney has issued a statement supporting Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em> <\/em>actor Moses Ingram.<\/p>\n Though Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em>‘s first two episodes premiered only just last week, that was all the time it took for Star Wars <\/em>obsessives to fixate on Ingram’s character Reva Sevander, one of the Galactic Empire’s Inquisitors tasked with exterminating the galaxy’s Jedi. On the Monday following this year’s Star Wars <\/em>Celebration event, Ingram took to her personal Instagram account to share a selection from the \u201chundreds\u201d of anti-Black, misogynist messages she’s received for portraying a fictional villain who does evil things. Ingram expressed that, while she’s grateful to fans who have the wherewithal to understand that actors are not the characters they play on television, she also admitted to feeling a certain degree of dejection “because there’s nothing anybody can do about this.”<\/p>\n \u201cThere’s nothing anybody can do to stop this hate, and so I question what my purpose is in even being here in front of you saying that this is happening,\u201d Ingram said. “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’ve just got to shut up and take it,’ you know? “<\/p>\n Hours after Ingram’s post, the official Star Wars<\/em> Twitter account shared a message reaffirming that Ingram’s character Reva Sevander is very much a part of the franchise regardless of what any racist trolls have to say.<\/p>\n