Star Wars stands with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Moses Ingram amid racist backlash

Disney has issued a public statement supporting Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Moses Ingram following a wave of racist backlash from Star Wars fans.

In response to a swift and all too predictable wave of racist backlash from Star Wars “fans” dismayed by the idea of Black people existing in space, Disney has issued a statement supporting Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Moses Ingram. Though Obi-Wan Kenobi’s first two episodes premiered only just last week, that was all the time it took for Star Wars obsessives to fixate on Ingram’s character Reva Sevander, one of the Galactic Empire’s Inquisitors tasked with exterminating the galaxy’s Jedi.

In the short amount of time that Reva has been a part of the Star Wars franchise, Obi-Wan’s established that, while it’s her job to slay Jedi and put the fear of the Empire into its subjugants, her hunt for Obi-Wan is somewhat personal. Rather than simply being a Sith aligned with the dark side of the Force, Reva’s introduced as one of the few living Jedi conscripted by the Empire to eradicate their kind as part of Order 66, the Empire’s plan to wipe the Jedi out permanently.

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