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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: matginzac

Technically, none of the people in the Star Wars universe are even human (a galaxy, far, far away).


61 posted on 12/13/2015 3:36:41 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Kaslin

Whoops! There goes one of those women with three names on a tangent again.

Don’t every get around a woman with three names and piss her off for they are the most irrational, yeast infected, irritable, time bombs waiting to go off at anything that irritates them. She proves the point!


62 posted on 12/13/2015 3:39:32 PM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Kaslin

Yo, Ms. Harris DASH Perry, haddya like me now?!?
63 posted on 12/13/2015 3:44:18 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Kaslin

She’s not “totally black” so what’s she whining about?


64 posted on 12/13/2015 4:07:44 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kaslin

The ignorant twit should be thrilled that all those completely White Stormtroopers are taking orders from a Black guy!


65 posted on 12/13/2015 4:10:46 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: EEGator

Two daughters.


66 posted on 12/13/2015 4:15:51 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: TruthWillWin

Excellent photoshop


67 posted on 12/13/2015 4:31:37 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Tax-chick
And Darth Vader's "voice" was like that because he spoke through a microphone, which altered it. When his mask was removed, he didn't have Darth's James Earl Jones' voice anymore.

WTF is this woman talking about?

68 posted on 12/13/2015 4:32:43 PM PST by boop ("That's a hell of a price to pay for being stylish" -Dirty Harry)
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To: Kaslin
Then this fiction must really trouble her. A black man defending white people against white home burglars.


69 posted on 12/13/2015 4:33:46 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: Kaslin

Thanks, but not my work. Found it on the Internet.


70 posted on 12/13/2015 4:34:39 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: boop

I think she’s talking about the fact that she’s insane.


71 posted on 12/13/2015 4:37:06 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Kaslin

She probably has a problem with God for making her so stupid.


72 posted on 12/13/2015 4:40:44 PM PST by adorno (w)
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To: Kaslin

Hollywood anticipated your objections from race card bimbos.So they offset Black guy proxy Darth fighting on the dark side with black guy proxy Chewbacca fighting on the side of the good.What do you have to say about that, Miss Race Card Harris-Perry?


73 posted on 12/13/2015 4:43:14 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Kaslin

Give it a rest, Melissa. There are way too many folks that really have something to bitch about.


74 posted on 12/13/2015 4:47:02 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Flick Lives

Good point!


75 posted on 12/13/2015 5:11:13 PM PST by matginzac
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To: Kaslin
Why is this moron still getting attention?

She, of Tampon earrings fame, is mentally unbalanced and her viewpoints are bizarre, to say the least. Typically, the inmates in the mental institution are not given so much airtime to spew their delusions.

76 posted on 12/13/2015 5:12:17 PM PST by HotHunt
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I did a search on “Melissa Harris-Perry wedding photo” and she was wearing a completely white dress.

What message was she trying to send by that race based clothing choice?


77 posted on 12/13/2015 5:15:00 PM PST by ChronicMA
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To: Kaslin

Last time I checked Outer Space is totally Black with a bunch of little white spots in the background.

Conclusion, Outer Space is Racist. Since God created Outer Space, God is Racist.


78 posted on 12/13/2015 5:23:29 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Too late...


79 posted on 12/13/2015 6:18:56 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

Libturd is just now realizing her fellow Libturds in Hollywood are racists?


80 posted on 12/13/2015 6:19:01 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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