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"It’s Hollywood’s fault, for letting this get so far, that when a black person or a female, or someone from a different cultural group is cast in a movie, we have to have debates as to whether they’re placed there just to meet a quota," Boyega said. The actor admits that he is outraged at the assumption that, "'He’s just placed there for political correctness'”

"I don’t hear you guys saying that when Brad Pitt is there. When Tom Cruise is there. Hell, when Shia LaBeouf is there, you guys ain’t saying that," he added. "That is just blatant racism."

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Star Wars was hit recently with an unpleasant online campaign to boycott the new film due to it's supposed promotion of "white genocide." The #BOYCOTTSTARWARSVII campaign accused the film makers of a hidden black and jewish agenda to erase white people from popular culture and then, by extension, society. Read the full story here. John Boyega has finally spoken out against the malicious movement, declaring: "The presale tickets have gone through the roof – their agenda has failed. Miserably. "They are merely victims of a disease in their mind. To get into a serious dialogue with people who judge a person based on the melanin in their skin? They’re stupid, and I’m not going to lose sleep over people. "I wasn’t raised to fear people with a difference of opinion."

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"I’m grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man," he told the New York Times. "A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. ‘I’m proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me." Like others before him, he also mocked the assertion that the representation of different human skin colours could be the most noteworthy differences in the film. WATCH THE LATEST STAR WARS ON SET FEATURETTE NEXT

"You guys got every single alien in this movie imaginable to man," he said. "With tentacles, five eyes. Aliens that, if they existed, we’d definitely have an issue with. "We’d have to get them to the government and be, like, ‘What are you?’ "Yet what you want to do is fixate on another human being’s colour. You need to go back to school and unlearn what you have learned. "I think Yoda said that, or Obi-Wan."

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Boyega's comments echoed a previous response from Broadway star Audra MacDonald. "Lemme get this straight: Wookies, Ewoks & Droids are fine but a BLACK PERSON is a problem?" she tweeted. "Go home. You're Drunk." Other twitter users posted humourous images puncturing the poisonous message of hate in the boycott campaign, including a mocking depiction of stormtroopers as members of the Ku Klux Klan. WATCH DIRECTOR JJ ABRAMS TALK ABOUT STAR WARS NEXT