The franchise tweeted that it was once “proud to welcome” Ingram, who simply made her debut as Reva within the Disney+ sequence “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
“If any individual intends to make her really feel in any respect unwelcome, we have now just one factor to mention: we face up to,” the “Famous person Wars” account tweeted. “There are greater than 20 million sentient species within the Famous person Wars galaxy, do not make a choice to be a racist.”
Ingram posted a couple of examples of racist messages and feedback on Instagram, noting that she has gained loads of messages, a few of which incorporated the N-word.
“There may be not anything anyone can do about this. There may be not anything anyone can do to prevent this hate,” she stated, in a video posted to her Instagram tales.
“The item that bothers me is … this sense of like, I simply gotta close up and take it, I simply have to smile and undergo it. And I am not constructed like that,” she persisted. “Thanks to the individuals who display up for me within the feedback and within the puts that I am not going to place myself. And to the remainder of y’all, y’all bizarre.”
Ingram’s reviews following her “Famous person Wars” debut have change into a pattern — actors John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran have additionally been vocal in regards to the racist hate they gained after showing within the “Famous person Wars” films.
Tran, the primary lady of colour to have a big function in a “Famous person Wars” movie, wrote an op-ed within the New York Instances in regards to the harassment she gained after starring in 2017’s “The Ultimate Jedi.” The detest change into so intense that Tran left social media and hung out in remedy.
Even previous, in 2014, Boyega’s look within the trailer for “The Drive Awakens” started an entire social media motion of #BlackStormtrooper, after many reacted to his casting with suspicion and racist remarks.
