Tag: finn is a star wars leading man

cassandor:

I legit had to just read the phrase “Alden Ehrenreich is the first man of color in a lead role in a Star Wars movie“ with my own two eyes I am NOT kidding I’m seriously wheezing like I had to reread that sentence 5 times to make sure I wasn’t misreading it 

how the heck is that man anything but White (oh, is he Jewish??? can we stop assuming that Jewish = not white??? like that erases actual Jewish people of colour, like black and indian jewish people

also WHO THE FRICK FORGOT ABOUT FINN, WHO IS PLAYED BY A BLACK MAN AND WAS THE FIRST MAN OF COLOUR TO LEAD A STAR WARS MOVIE

and if you forgot him there’s also, oh, I don’t know ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY starring not one, not two, but FOUR men of colour in the lead roles

this fandom is absolutely bonkers and this is what I mean by diversity/woke points becoming a mainstream thing to seem cool has actually put the anti racist movement backwards because instead of uplifting actual POC people are bending over backwards to give white people the POC label