Takeia Marie

The Black Jedi seems to be the elusive unicorn in a never-ending fight for representation.

That being said, I’m not going to stand around and wait for the Black Jedi to show up and represent me.

There was still this inner conflict between how epic Star Wars was, and the fact that I was viewing it as an outsider, as someone the movies considered to be other even in a fictional galaxy far, far away.

As a black person growing up in America, I’ve been told I was disposable my entire life.