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You couldn't make it up.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry made the argument Sunday that “Star Wars” is racist because Darth Vader is black.

“I know why I have feelings — good, bad and otherwise — about Star Wars. And I have a lot,” Ms. Harris-Perry said during a segment on her eponymous talk show discussing race and gender in the upcoming Star Wars film. “I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation.”

“Really? You could?” The New York Times’ Wesley Morris asked incredulously.

Ms. Harris-Perry responded, “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. 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.”
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I suppose, with a sympathetic teacher, this thesis would have gotten a passing grade in a Year 10 English class.
 
Yes, you could make it up. Kevin Smith did.

I wonder if MHP was familiar with that clip ...
 
Ms. Harris-Perry responded, “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. But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white.
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But he was evil in Empire Strikes Back, and he was white in Empire Strikes Back... We saw the puffy, scarred skull when his meditation chamber opened before the helmet was fully restored.

Or has that scene been lost in some of the improved versions issued since then?
 
Metaphor said:
You couldn't make it up.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry made the argument Sunday that “Star Wars” is racist because Darth Vader is black.

“I know why I have feelings — good, bad and otherwise — about Star Wars. And I have a lot,” Ms. Harris-Perry said during a segment on her eponymous talk show discussing race and gender in the upcoming Star Wars film. “I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation.”

“Really? You could?” The New York Times’ Wesley Morris asked incredulously.

Ms. Harris-Perry responded, “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. 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.”
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I suppose, with a sympathetic teacher, this thesis would have gotten a passing grade in a Year 10 English class.
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Two years ago, I would have thought MHP was being silly and paranoid, until I saw a long, lost deleted scene from Episode IV on Youtube showing Darth Vader waiting in line at the Chicken & Rib Shack on Tatooine.
 
Vader was always white (spoiler: he's that annoying Anakin kid).

If he hadn't been white he'd probably not have ended up with white kids.

The real social injustice was they hired a Black actor to play a white character. Were all the white voice actors busy?
 
But isn't Darth Vader actually fighting for the good side, seeing that his super awesome clone army is easier to kill than it is to hit a cone on the highway with a plow truck? He must have put the force juju on them to make them fight like... cones on the highway waiting to be hit by a plow.

And who else would do his voice anyway? Martin Short?!
 
But the bad guys all wear that white armor (that doesn't seem to do shit anyway).
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
But isn't Darth Vader actually fighting for the good side, seeing that his super awesome clone army is easier to kill than it is to hit a cone on the highway with a plow truck? He must have put the force juju on them to make them fight like... cones on the highway waiting to be hit by a plow.

And who else would do his voice anyway? Martin Short?!
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He is all about the highway and safety thereof.

 
ZiprHead said:
But the bad guys all wear that white armor (that doesn't seem to do shit anyway).
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Which strongly implies that Darth Vader was always playing the long con. Much like Angel used the death of Fred to get on the inside, Darth used the WTF death of his love to cross the Emperor. Which is why he had no problem choking out members of the Empire.
 
thebeave said:
Two years ago, I would have thought MHP was being silly and paranoid, until I saw a long, lost deleted scene from Episode IV on Youtube showing Darth Vader waiting in line at the Chicken & Rib Shack on Tatooine.
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Maybe he was just trying to get away from the utter lack of respect he gets at the Death Star canteen. If they just gave him the same respect they show his brother, Jeff Vader, he might have opted to eat there instead.
 
krypton iodine sulfur said:
thebeave said:
Two years ago, I would have thought MHP was being silly and paranoid, until I saw a long, lost deleted scene from Episode IV on Youtube showing Darth Vader waiting in line at the Chicken & Rib Shack on Tatooine.
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Maybe he was just trying to get away from the utter lack of respect he gets at the Death Star canteen. If they just gave him the same respect they show his brother, Jeff Vader, he might have opted to eat there instead.
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Well, actually the ones who don't get respect at the Cantina bar are the droids. The bartender says something like,"We don't serve your kind here!" to C-3PO. Maybe there were some sort of Jim Crow type laws for droids at Mos Eisley back then. Later, Luke gets told by a couple of thugs, "He doesn't like you" and "I don't like you either!", at which point Obi Wan cuts the guy's arm off. Then, Han shoots at Greedo Greedo shoots at Han. Let's face it... the cantina is a rough place no matter your race or species!
 
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