Problematic Darth Vader

 

unmasked3Darth Vader, the super-villain of the Star Wars movies, is a racist construct. You knew that, right? Or do you need to be educated?

If so, here’s what Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC’s resident movie critic, has to say about this:

“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.”

The arguments against this interpretation are here, if you need to read them.

As for me, I would like to remind Harris-Perry that Darth Vader merely dresses in black. Like Johnny Cash and Liza Minnelli.

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  1. EJHill Podcaster
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    Wearing tampon earrings? Why not? I know when I listen to her I bleed from the ears…

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  2. CuriousKevmo Inactive
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    Glass half empty indeed.  Vadar is like the coolest black dude in history.  You gotta put that one in the win column and move on don’tcha?

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  3. Hartmann von Aue Member
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    I’m only surprised she didn’t call him an Oreo- black on the outside, white on the inside. Leftwing “thought” on race is exactly that simple-minded.

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  4. Big Green Inactive
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    Yes, but what about the storm troopers???  They are white and from all observational evidence:  1) don’t speak well, if at all 2) have no minds of their own and only do what their “master” tells them 3) mindlessly run around shooting lasers, not very accurately by the way and 4) appear to be lead worthless lives whose best use is as pure cannon fodder for furthering imperial domination.

    White folks should be appalled at this depiction of their race!!

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