I keep seeing fan art of Poe Dameron looking completely white. I think a lot of the art is great, but if you’re going to draw Poe, at least draw him the color he is. Because he is NOT white. At all.
To be clear about this: Poe Dameron is played by Oscar Issac, who is Guatemalan. His full name is Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada. It is so important to so many people that both the male leads of SW:tFA are men of color, like… yeah.
To be even more clear about this… Poe’s homeworld is listed as Yavin 4, because the Yavin 4 scenes from A New Hope were filmed in the ancient Mayan city of Tikal, in Guatemala, in order to give that place its distinctive feel, so Oscar Issac requested that his character’s homeworld be there since he himself was born in Guatemala. (source)
So. Yeah. Poe Dameron is Latin American, or at least as close as you can get in ~fantasy space~ where there is no America. Which means he’s not a white guy.
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