'Never been more proud of you, John,' John Boyega's fellow Star Wars alum Mark Hamill said on Twitter
During his speech, Boyega thanked supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement and encouraged their continued activism.
"This is very important; this is very vital," he told the demonstrators in an emotional moment, captured on-camera by the U.K. outlet the . "Black lives have always mattered. We have always been important, we have always meant something. We have always succeeded regardless — and now is the time."John Boyega speaks in Hyde Park, London, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on Wednesday.The British-Nigerian actor also addressed black men specifically, saying, "We need to take care of black women."
"They are our hearts; they are our future," he said. "We cannot demonize our own. We are the pillars of the family. Imagine this: a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving, that are healthy, that communicate, that raise their children they love, have a better rate of becoming better human beings. That's what we need to create."Boyega
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