Real Star Wars fans need to stand up for John Boyega.
Just like the outrage of Rue being black in the Hunger Games, the people who are the angriest, are usually the most uninformed fans of the movie they were watching. Some are misusing their twisted version of the lore, to justify their own racist feelings. Star Wars has people and aliens of different races, so it can be frustrating that people can still have negative reaction to a black guy in a trailer, as if he is not supposed to be there.
Many so called fans say they arent racist, but are upset because he is a stormtrooper, and he doesn’t look like the Jango Fett clones. Real fans know that Stormtroopers were not all clones, but many were normal human beings who were recruited after the empire stopped producing new clones after Episode III. In Star Wars Rebels, which is officially canon, they have already introduced multiple stormtroopers who come in all races, including Zare Leonis who is a black man. Plus by the time of Episode VII, the clones who remained would have been dead or elderly. So why so much outrage?
Personally I hope that John Boyega’s character is the lead character with Daisy Ridley, that way these racist jackasses will be forced to make a decision between their own bigotry, and their love of Star Wars.