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MSNBC's Harris-Perry Gripes Over 'Totally Black Guy' Darth Vader As Evil Character
NewsBusters.org ^ | December 13, 2015 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 12/13/2015 2:22:13 PM PST by Kaslin

On her eponymously named Sunday morning show, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry went into a mini-rant about racism in Star Wars as she complained about villain Darth Vader being "totally a black guy" when he was "cutting off white men's hands" who did not "claim his son," but then became a white man after he "claims his son and goes over to the good."

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Gripes Over 'Totally Black Guy' Darth Vader as Evil Character

During a segment about the upcoming The Force Awakens sequel, after a discussion about Princess Leia's slave girl costume from the 1980s at 11:44 a.m., the MSNBC host admitted to having mixed feelings about the popular movie series:

I know why I have feelings -- good, bad, and otherwise -- about Star Wars. And I have a lot. I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation.

After panel member Wesley Morris of the New York Times wondered, "Really? You could?" Harris-Perry took issue with a black actor voicing the iconic evil character rather than rejoicing at James Earl Jones getting such a high-profile career opportunity as she elaborated:

Yeah, like, the part where he was totally a black guy whose name basically was James Earl Jones, who, and we were all, but while he was black, he was terrible and bad and awful and used to cut off white men's hands, and didn't, you know, actually claim his son.

As if it would have made sense for an obviously white leading character to have had a father who was not white, she then griped:

But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white. Yes, I have many, many feelings about that, but I will try to put them over here.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: leftwinglunatic; melissaharrisperry; race; racism
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To: Kaslin

She is too stupid to live absent machine life support


41 posted on 12/13/2015 2:48:07 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Kaslin

Does she sometimes come across to you as a version of Guilda Radner’s Emily Latella character?


42 posted on 12/13/2015 2:52:11 PM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Kaslin

How does this woman have a tv show?


43 posted on 12/13/2015 2:55:39 PM PST by funfan
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To: Pearls Before Swine

This is hilarious.


44 posted on 12/13/2015 2:59:06 PM PST by stevem
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To: Kaslin

Another borderline black trying to ante up her street cred.


45 posted on 12/13/2015 3:02:50 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: funfan

It’s MSNBC or as Mark Levin calls it “MSLSD”


46 posted on 12/13/2015 3:03:25 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Kaslin


47 posted on 12/13/2015 3:05:35 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Kaslin

So she’s saying that black is the new evil. Hmmm .....


48 posted on 12/13/2015 3:06:34 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Kaslin

annikin skywalker was white.


49 posted on 12/13/2015 3:06:41 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Kaslin

You’re half black - get over it.

And stop with the pretentious hyphenated last names already.

From her on-line bio:

* - Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry born October 2, 1973; formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell.

* - An American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics.

* - Harris-Perry hosts the Melissa Harris-Perry weekend news and opinion television show on MSNBC.

* - Harris-Perry was born to a white mother and black father in Seattle but grew up in Virginia.

* - Her father was the first dean of African-American Affairs at the University of Virginia.”


50 posted on 12/13/2015 3:06:58 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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51 posted on 12/13/2015 3:09:15 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Iron Munro

It’s the light-skinned (mixed race) blacks that are always the worst. They have to overcompensate to try to kill off the “White” inside of them.


52 posted on 12/13/2015 3:09:52 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Too funny. You must miss a lot of creeper threads discussing movies. I only wish most would say it’s only a movie. The faux outrage is owned by both sides.


53 posted on 12/13/2015 3:10:22 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Kaslin

Harris Hyphen Perry perpetuating racism whenever she can. These people need to lighten up.


54 posted on 12/13/2015 3:11:26 PM PST by From The Deer Stand (Alka)
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To: Kaslin

Harris Hyphen Perry perpetuating racism whenever she can. These people need to lighten up.


55 posted on 12/13/2015 3:11:26 PM PST by From The Deer Stand (Alka)
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To: Kaslin

Anakin was black after he became a crispy critter on mustafar.....

Im a geek...


56 posted on 12/13/2015 3:14:22 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Kaslin

57 posted on 12/13/2015 3:17:39 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Kaslin

She is inflicted with CPRS (Chronic Perceived Racism Syndrome).


58 posted on 12/13/2015 3:19:14 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Kaslin

Er, the authentic “black guy”, Lando whathisname, ended up being a good guy...Get. A. Life.


59 posted on 12/13/2015 3:28:44 PM PST by matginzac
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To: dfwgator
It's the light-skinned (mixed race) blacks that are always the worst.

She seems to have the same white-mommy anguish that we see in Barack Obama.

And she seems to overcompensate for it the same way as Obama - by lashing out at whites.


60 posted on 12/13/2015 3:36:04 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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