Each year between Thanksgiving and Christmas some of the most anticipated film events of the year occur: the most advertised Blockbusters or at the very least a smaller preview, as was the case with Star Wars.

So, last Thursday the saga fans enjoyed the first pictures of the new movie, premiering in 2015. An early preview introduced one of the new characters in the series, played by British actor John Boyega, dressed as one of the most legendary figures in Star Wars: a Stormtrooper or Imperial Soldier.

In social networks, many did not understand and rejected the presence of a Black Stormtrooper, the first in the whole story. In a science fiction story about space wars with lightsabers, many insisted that Black stormtroopers just could not exist:

The new Star Wars trailer... I'm calm... "There has been an awakening, have you felt it..?" IT'S A BLACK GUY STORMTROOPER, OMFG Whaaaaaat?!

— Dave RetroYak (@RetroYak) November 28, 2014

Wtf why is there a black stormtrooper. Stormtroopers can't be black because they're clones of a white dude

— Alek (@Hay_Bales_) November 28, 2014

On the same day and also on Twitter, Australian mogul Rupert Murdoch defended director Ridley Scott’s decision to hire white actors to star in his version of the story of Moses and the Egyptian exodus. Scott explained that he had to choose Christian Bale and not an Egyptian actor because he "can't mount a film of this budget [...] and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such."

Murdoch, meanwhile, was clear: “Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.”

Moses film attacked on Twitter for all white cast. Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) November 29, 2014

It is clear that film critics only seem to worry a lot when the actor is not a white person...

"Black people have gotta get over their obsession with rac...BLACK STORMTROOPER?WTF?" #BlackStormtrooper #ExodusMovie pic.twitter.com/B8PVpHYFNT

— Nestlé Snipes (@ChocnessMonsta) December 1, 2014