{"id":130635,"date":"2021-02-14T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=130635"},"modified":"2021-02-14T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T21:27:44","slug":"disney-star-wars-criticized-over-black-history-month-tweet-after-minimizing-black-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-star-wars-criticized-over-black-history-month-tweet-after-minimizing-black-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney, Star Wars Criticized Over Black History Month Tweet After Minimizing Black Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-star-wars-criticized-over-black-history-month-tweet-after-minimizing-black-character%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=130635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Boyega.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Star Wars, and its parent company Disney, is facing sharp criticism following a Black History Month tweet featuring actor John Boyega, who plays \u201cFinn,\u201d in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, who was nearly scrubbed from Star Wars\u2019 Chinese promotional materials, allegedly over concerns that a black actor would not be well received by the Chinese market, and who was \u201cpushed to the side\u201d in later films.<\/p>\n<p>Disney, it turns out, is not woke enough for the woke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStorytelling is at the heart of being human and black representation in all media gives us the opportunity to feel like we are a part of the world we are living in. To be seen and heard more gives us a chance to feel like we are understood by those consuming our stories,\u201d Star Wars\u2019 noted on its official social media feed, above a stylized representation of Boyega\u2019s character, Finn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStories can show how a character can overcome struggles and conflict and to see someone like yourself in that story is a springboard for the imagination,\u201d the Twitter thread continued. \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Introduce that to an eager mind of a child and you inspire the next generation of storytellers and beyond.\u201d \u2014Mel Milton, artist of this Finn illustration for<\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHistoryMonth?src=hashtag_click\" data-focusable=\"true\">#BlackHistoryMonth<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackHistoryAlways?src=hashtag_click\" data-focusable=\"true\">#BlackHistoryAlways<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&nbsp;But fans and commenters, many of them leftists, quickly pointed out the irony in Disney\u2019s and Star Wars\u2019 use of Finn to promote racial harmony. In 2015, just ahead of \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d release in Asian markets, <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/article\/2015\/12\/04\/star-wars-china-poster\/\">entertainment media noticed<\/a> a surprising omission from the film\u2019s marketing materials: images of John Boyega were minimized on movie posters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFans are in an uproar because new franchise star John Boyega, very prominently featured in all the marketing for the film, is all but gone from the China poster,\u201d Entertainment Weekly reported. \u201cBoyega\u2019s character Finn has been shrunk so significantly that\u2019s he\u2019s very easy to miss in the alternate version. As a result, fans have accused Disney\u2019s China office of wanting to downplay an actor of color in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EW and others cited a number of situations in which black actors and other actors of color have been minimized in Chinese promotional materials. Disney did not comment on the matter, according to CNN. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/08\/asia\/star-wars-china-racist-poster\/index.html\">Chinese state media<\/a> hit back, claiming that audiences could not draw broad conclusions from a single incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the poster is merely a promotion method and an individual case, it would be unfair to criticize Chinese audiences for discriminating against the black actor,\u201d the Beijing Film Association said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview in 2020, Boyega seemed to acknowledge the issue, according to the Associated Press. \u201cBlack characters have been \u2018pushed to the side\u2019 in Disney\u2019s \u2018Star Wars\u201d franchise,&#8217;\u201d the outlet quoted Boyega as saying. \u201cIn June, the star made an emotional speech on racism when he joined Black Lives Matter protests in London.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woke fans of the Star Wars franchise have also long complained that Disney used Finn as a way of checking a progressive box, shoving the character out of the limelight and into the background before he could fully develop.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were quick to point out Disney\u2019s issues in response to the Star Wars tweet \u2014 and even criticize the typically woke Disney over leaving Boyega and other characters of color on the cutting room floor in Star Wars films.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf only he wasn\u2019t turned into a joke and pretty much a side character in the second and third film of the trilogy. Quite sad, but I\u2019m glad the Lego holiday special treated him right,\u201d one critic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood, if you believe this then there should be something big in the works for this character that you threw away. Talk is cheap, Lucasfilm. I don\u2019t know how many time we have to tell you that before you stop slapping us in the face,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to talk representation? John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran deserved SO much better than what they were dealt in the sequel trilogy. John existed to be the token black character while Kelly\u2019s roll (sic) was reduced to a mere background character in ROS,\u201d added yet another.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of fans even referenced Disney\u2019s decision, made last week, to fire \u201cMandalorian\u201d star Gina Carano allegedly over a number of tweets, calling the incident evidence of the company\u2019s fake woke-ism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love how they do this racist ass sh*t but then want to seem all great by firing Gina Carano,\u201d one fan said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gina-carano-to-produce-and-star-in-upcoming-film-for-the-daily-wire\"><strong>Related: Gina Carano To Produce And Star In Upcoming Film For The Daily Wire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars, and its parent company Disney, is facing sharp criticism following a Black History Month tweet featuring actor John Boyega, who plays \u201cFinn,\u201d in the most recent Star Wars &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893427,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4212,6719,6344,3972,5229,6520],"class_list":["post-130635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black","tag-criticized","tag-disney","tag-over","tag-star","tag-wars"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}