In a tweet, John Boyega slammed Star Wars fans who compared the George Floyd protests to the violence that the franchise’s characters, many of whom are white, have faced at the hands of fictional soldiers called Stormtroopers.
Boyega, who played Finn in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, criticized fans who co-opted his tweets about Black Lives Matter and system racism with tweets about he needs to “talk about police brutality against white people.” “Don’t waste time tweeting ‘you need to talk about police brutality against white people’ go for one of your celeb coons for that.
That Star Wars movie got you lot all the way fucked up. I am staying on topic. We are addressing a specific issue,” he tweeted on May 30.
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