Master Ti-Gon just saw an intersting article on the Associated Press with Samuel L. Jackson referring to the whole Jar Jar drama as 'stupid'. Gotta love Mr. Windu... what a great guy.

Some fans and film reviewers complained that the character echoed old Hollywood racial stereotypes. In reviewing "Phantom Menace" in 1999, Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern called Jar Jar "a Rastafarian Stepin Fetchit on platform hoofs, crossed annoyingly with Butterfly McQueen."

Jar Jar is back in "Star Wars: Episode II ? Attack of the Clones," but his role is diminished. He's also more serious, because in the 10 years between "Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" the character has become a senator.

Jackson said people have read more into the part racially than they should have because the animated character was voiced by a black man, Ahmed Best.

"I thought it was pretty stupid," Jackson told reporters. "The fact that Ahmed was doing that character may have sent people to that place. But people want to find things, or they want to assign things to everything. And that's not always necessary."

Co-star Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin Skywalker in "Attack of the Clones," agreed.