Donald Glover was the host of last night’s Saturday Night Live, and appeared in one sketch as his character in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story: Lando Calrissian. There, he asked a question that’s been raised a lot about the Star Wars universe: where the hell are all the black humans in space?
In the sketch, Glover’s charming Lando hosts the “first-ever summit for all black humans,” on Naboo, which turns out to include just three attendees. It’s a pointed jab at the lack of diversity in the Star Wars films.
The lack of diversity in the franchise is something that’s long been pointed out when it comes to the franchise: In her 1980 essay “The Lost Races of Science Fiction,” (reprinted in Gerry Canavan’s critical biography Octavia E….
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