Emmy nominated, Yale educated, Black woman, Moses Ingram has been receiving a lot of backlash from #StarWars fans that aren’t happy about her being casted as Reva. The actress says that she’s received “hundreds” of racist comments from social media cowards
“There’s nothing anybody can do about this. There’s nothing anybody can do to stop this hate,” she said, in a video posted to her Instagram stories.
“The thing that bothers me is … this feeling of like, I just gotta shut up and take it, I just have to grin and bear it. And I’m not built like that,” she continued. “Thank you to the people who show up for me in the comments and in the places that I’m not going to put myself. And to the rest of y’all, y’all weird.”
Her Star Wars family was not here for the racism and issue their own statement in support of Ingram.
“There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist,” the franchise said in their announcement.
“We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Reva’s story to unfold. If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist.”
Period! We will have to tune in and support this queen 👏🏾👏🏾 It’s a shame that people spend this much energy on hatred! #BWLM💕
