following her appearance on the Disney+ show in May.“There’s nothing anybody can do to stop this hate,” she said. “I question what my purpose even is in being here in front of you saying this is happening. I think the thing that bothers me is this feeling I’ve had inside of myself that I’ve just got to shut up and take it. I’m not built like that.”account came to Ingram’s defense and stood by the casting decision.
“We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Reva’s story to unfold,” the account wrote. “If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist.” On the other end of the spectrum, Pegg praised the “Star Trek” franchise’s long history of inclusion and its fandom’s reflection of that welcoming nature.“I’m the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race,” John Boyega told British GQ of his “Star Wars” role.
“I find that ‘Star Trek’ fans have always been very, very inclusive, you know? ‘Star Trek’ is about diversity, it has been since 1966; it always was. There’s no sort of like, ‘Oh, you’re suddenly being woke now?’” Pegg noted. “‘Star Trek’ was woke from the beginning. You had a Japanese navigator, just after the Second World War, there was a Black woman on the deck in a position of authority. This is massively progressive.
In 1968, just one year after interracial marriage was declared legal by the U.S. Supreme Court, “Star Trek” aired the first televised interracial kiss between William Shatner’s Capt. James T. Kirk and Nichelle Nichols’ Lt. Nyota Uhura.
How Hollywood elite see all regular people. About 99% of the population that are done with wokeness.