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Disney, Star Wars Criticized Over Black History Month Tweet After Minimizing Black Character

"I love how they do this racist ass sh*t but then want to seem all great by firing Gina Carano."

Emily Zanotti
Disney, Star Wars Criticized Over Black History Month Tweet After Minimizing Black Character
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Star Wars, and its parent company Disney, is facing sharp criticism following a Black History Month tweet featuring actor John Boyega, who plays “Finn,” in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, who was nearly scrubbed from Star Wars’ Chinese promotional materials, allegedly over concerns that a black actor would not be well received by the Chinese market, and who was “pushed to the side” in later films.

Disney, it turns out, is not woke enough for the woke.

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