shut up and act

Isn't he British?

Ha ha - African-British?!!

This reminds me of a television interview I saw many years ago. A reporter from one of the major US television networks (I forget which one) was interviewing black British athlete Kriss Akabusi after being a member of the 400 metres relay team that took the gold medal at the 1991 Athletics World Championships. The interviewer started off with:

"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"

"I'm not American, I'm British"

"Yes, but as a British African-American ..."

"I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British."

This went on for some time before the reporter got so flustered that she gave up and went to interview someone else. I guess more than anything else it demonstrates the potential absurdity of political correctness - this reporter was so tied-up with the idea that the "correct" term for someone of afro-caribbean ancestry was African-American and not Black that she couldn't cope with the fact that many black people are neither African nor American...

"angry black man" 🙄

Check your white privilege.

he is complaining he was a side character in Star Wars instead of the lead, and Disney used his color/diversity just to market the film

I sometimes get that impression as well - that people look for something to be upset about just to go in to attack dog mode. Then if I take the trouble to find the original article the interpretation and emphasis often seems deliberately skewed.
Even when the speaker/writer has said something that sounds silly or worse, so what. It's one statement at one time and we all say idiotic things now and then - perhaps especially if you're led in that direction by an interviewer looking for something dramatic to boost their own position.
Worth noting that people from both ends of any particular spectrum indulge in this behaviour but it's disappointing when it starts to drive news cycles, twitter storms, threads on these boards or even ordinary conversation.

He complained only "white characters" were given depth in Star Wars. Never mind the fact that Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver were the main characters and he wasn't, but something, something, something racism

I'm not saying that the actors and characters in the subsequent movies were any better, but let's be honest Boyega never really broke it big after the first movie, and i dont think he was the leading man to carry a movie that the studios expected.

He certainly did not have the impact that Ford, Fisher and Hammill did after the original movie.

Its not that he's a bad actor, its more about that indefinable something that makes someone a star. He just does not have it.

Hence I can understand why he had smaller roles in the next few movies.

(quote) "Dangerous Black Guy".....Really?

(Quote) "Who Doesn't Toe The Corporate Line".....He was working for (cough, cough) Disney....it really doesn't get any more 'corporate' than them. Plus he only decided to pull his 'trusty' race-card *AFTER* the cameras stopped rolling on the franchise has ended.

Stunning and brave, no doubt?

No wonder people laugh at both the BLM movement (and 'black lives' in general) when people like this are held up as 'Dangerous' and 'Non-comformist'?