http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-m...is-racist-because-darth-vader-is-a-black-guy/MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry: Star Wars is Racist Because Darth Vader Is a ‘Black Guy’
MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry, in addition to comparing black people to the bestial Wookies, complained Saturday that Star Wars is racist because Darth Vader totally looks like a black guy.
“I know why I have feelings — good, bad and otherwise — about Star Wars,” Perry explained. “…I spent the whole day talking about the Darth Vader situation.”
“The part where he was totally a black guy, whose name was basically James Earl Jones,” she said. “While he was black he was terrible and bad, awful and used to cut off white men’s hand, and didn’t actually claim his son. But as soon as he claims his son, goes over to the good, takes off his mask and he is white — yes, I have many feelings about that.”
Oh boy ! I've heard Fox News hosts saying stupid things but none of them ever something that stupid
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1) It's A COSTUME. Under the helmet, Vader is white
2) Yes James Earl Jones is black. But David Prowse was white. The had Jones to do Vader's voice 'cause they wanted a very deep voice
3) In Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, after being called Vader for the very first time by Sidious/Palpatine, Vader, who'se white -he doesn't have the costume he wears in the first 3 movies- goes tyo the jedi temple and kill all the kids around. Vader is white.
4) Vader's costumer is black but the Stormtroopers are dressed in white. And they're all bad guys.
5) The Rebels are from many races, many planets : humans (blacks and whites), sullustans, Wookies, Mon Calamari. On the other side, every characters part of the Empire and whose face is visible is a white human. The Empire is racist. The Allaiance aren't and they are the good guys.
The worst part is that people like Melissa Harris-Perry calling raciost some things that are clearly not racist diminishes the credibility of those who fight against real racism. It's totally counter-productive.
What an idiot she is...