One establishment media journalist’s article about “[b]lack nerds” from mid-2023 began making the rounds on social media this week, causing quite a stir. The Entertainment Weekly article is titled “Amandla Stenberg on how The Acolyte has made sci-fi safe for Black nerds.” In it, Stenberg (an actress in the upcoming and highly criticized Disney-Star Wars series “The Acolyte”) is quoted arguing that “the world of fantasy and sci-fi in general” has never felt like a “safe space” for people of color, and that the new highly-diverse series changes that. In response to the resurfaced article — post…
