Star Wars Fail

I'm suddenly re-pissed off about John Boyega's character in Star Wars. But way worse than before because it's all much clearer looking backwards.

We basically had the worst possible version of The Left and Woke with this movie and its casting. The epitome of the worst kind of hidden, modern racism.

Basically, the franchise got watered-down by the desire to signal wokeness, and they never actually delivered on it. Perhaps there was some good intention there, but if there was it got destroyed by the execution.

We were promised a Black Jedi.

Everyone was. That's what the trailers sold us.

It was a moment of celebration for anyone who was both a Star Wars fan and socially moderate or progressive, and I was thrilled.

It also looked like he'd be the main character, and possibly the love interest of the female main. It was implied. Not necessary, but it was implied.

But they did that the whole time knowing that he'd end up being a small, secondary character, with no love interest really. And not a fucking Jedi at all.

Let me just say it.

They gave a Black guy a lightsaber for a second to sell tickets during Peak Woke, and then as soon as they reintroduced the real lead—the White lead—the pushed him into the sidelines.

That's modern elite liberals on race in a nutshell.

• Support BLM but somehow don't have any Black friends who grew up struggling
• Support public housing in theory, but vote against new affordable apartments in your neighborhood
• Support "equality" but are members of clubs that do their best to control the racial makeup of their members

Why not make him the lead? The actual fucking lead. Why?

I suppose an answer would be that "they" wouldn't fund it, because "they" are worried about backlash from the masses.

People don't want to see a Black Jedi lead with the White female lead. They will skip the movie in protest and accuse us of wokeness...

...or whatever.

Sure, could be true, but that progress needs to be made some time, and you had the perfect opportunity right there!

But no—instead of having actual moral courage, and actually moving racial harmony forward, and Star Wars forward, they caved. They pretended to be woke, which seems to be a common theme with the entire movement.

Nothing harms fighting racism more than pretending to fight it while actually promoting it behind closed doors.

You literally fucking added a Black guy as a member of your Oxford, White-only Gentleman's Club, and then come to find out he's an "Auxiliary" Member, meaning he can't go to meetings and actually works nights watching the parking lot.

This film is visual crime footage.

It's visual proof of the disconnect between hollow woke rhetoric and the reality of the world they maintain.

Signal loud that you're woke. So loud. Show it off. Talk about it at parties. Feel good about yourself. Let the Black guy hold the Lightsaber. And then when Bryce White shows up, scurry the Black guy off the stage and into his support role.

Fuck you and your fakeness. You're worse than a racist. You're a racist pretending to be an anti-racist for social status.

Shame.