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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's ripping off Chasing Amy...

Star Wars Racism

81 posted on 12/13/2015 9:07:00 PM PST by America_Right (Time to play your Trump card, America. Use it or lose it.)
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Just wow... I wonder if she knows that she’s mirroring a scene from Kevin Smith’s “Chasing Amy,” released back in 1997!

This scene is from a minority forum at a comic book convention - Warning, if you have sensitive ears, you might not want to watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9io-b9Uew

Mark


82 posted on 12/13/2015 10:23:49 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: America_Right

Just wow. We must share the same brain! :-)

Mark


83 posted on 12/13/2015 10:49:21 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: MarkL

HAHA! Beat you to it! But I didn’t include the language warning.


84 posted on 12/13/2015 10:49:31 PM PST by America_Right (Time to play your Trump card, America. Use it or lose it.)
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To: America_Right

“What’s a Nubian?”

:-)

Mark


85 posted on 12/14/2015 5:04:05 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Kaslin

Now I know why she has two sets of lips: She can pi*s and moan at the same time.


86 posted on 12/14/2015 12:03:00 PM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: Iron Munro
Her father was the first dean of African-American Affairs at the University of Virginia.”

Well, there's your problem. She's a second-generation (at least) race-hustler.

87 posted on 12/14/2015 12:05:59 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Iron Munro

I am mixed to an extent and I know others who are mixed as well and this woman does not represent them, she would be crazy regardless of color I.E. Rachel Maddow.


88 posted on 12/14/2015 2:19:30 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: Kaslin

-- Melissa, I am your mother.
-- No. No! That's not true! That's impossible!
-- Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
-- NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOO!!!
-- Melissa, it is your destiny! Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as mother and daughter! Come with me to the White side. It is the only way.

89 posted on 12/14/2015 2:25:12 PM PST by x
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To: the_individual2014
I am mixed to an extent and I know others who are mixed as well and this woman does not represent them, she would be crazy regardless of color I.E. Rachel Maddow.

I mention her racial heritage only because I believe she is the one who has a problem with it.

Much like Barack Obama, she seems to have a hangup about whites.


90 posted on 12/14/2015 5:14:25 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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