Other than Rey and Jyn, both white women being leads, the Disney Star Wars films have been as progressive as any other production that places people of color in non important roles surrounding the important white characters.
You can't claim genuine diversity points off characters like Finn, L3, Enfy's Nest, Thandie Newton's "character" and the crew of Asian guys that died in Rouge One when even the little force user in TLJ was a brown haired white kid.
RJ and KK both have a poor track record for characters of color in quality and quantity, they won't help D&D not be trash.
I know we've had this conversation about Finn before, and I agree with the fact that the white leads still greatly overshadow the minority leads. It's a problem, but inclusion across the board has been a massive step up from the original SW films, and we see minorities in just about every single position (ie resistance and FO personnel, extras, etc). Just look at the end of TFA at the entire cast to see that diversity, and that still is a significant improvement, especially when you look at a franchise that has been historically almost completely white. But again, so much potential is squandered when the PoC you
do include take a backseat to the story being told.
Of course, I'm not arguing that KK/RJ are the bastions of all progressive movements or that they're shining examples of wokeness; they're clearly not and have a long way to go.
Which is why I've been arguing for them to hire some fucking women/PoC in more significant roles in the company (ie showrunners/writers/directors). Because the less we see from white men in this regard, the more we'll see significant roles for minorities, stories that are shaped around those roles, not the other way around. Mandalorian is supposed to have a significant amount of women and PoC writing/directing, as far as I'm aware, so it seems like KK might
finally be doing the right thing.
I didn't like that ending shot with broom boy and that was definitely one of the reasons.
Although KK/RJ have room to improve on that front, they're a
far cry from the way D&D write and they'll definitely be kept in check in regard to the way they wrote GoT on HBO. But part of that is hiring women/PoC to push back against their BS if they do start heading down some of those paths again.
