• MSNBC host: Star Wars is Racist Because Darth Vader Is a ‘Black Guy’
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[QUOTE]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.”[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-melissa-harris-perry-star-wars-is-racist-because-darth-vader-is-a-black-guy/[/url] Video in source
Guess I've seen everything, god damn.
The fact that Darth Vader's entire military force of Stormtroopers are dressed in bright white armor is irrelevant to the analogy, I suppose.
[quote][B][I][U] “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.”[/U][/I][/B][/quote] Good lord what the fuck am I even READING
This is the same dumb bitch that said white people have no room to talk about "hard work"
But Darth Vader is played by David Prowse. I don't understand anything here...
Logic This woman
i guess she doesnt know that black has been associated with evil and badness for like ever
[QUOTE]comparing black people to the bestial Wookies,[/QUOTE] horseshoe theory in action Vader is black because that's a color associated with evil in the West. It's that simple. Vader didn't claim his son until the 5th movie and then he spent almost the entire movie in that black costume.
the black main character in the new movie is the opposite of what she's saying
This reads like a fucking onion article.... Yeah... Yeah I'm depressed now... Thanks for reminding me people like this exist.
My damage is brain.
Darth Vader wear black to convey his dark power. You know. Like. Darkness as in no light. Besides. "black" people generally have brown skin anyway so fuck you.
Wow, the parody is real. [video=youtube;-OEtwtV9koE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEtwtV9koE[/video]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;49317611]The fact that Darth Vader's entire military force of Stormtroopers are dressed in bright white armor is irrelevant to the analogy, I suppose.[/QUOTE] Wrong. In the entire series they didn't shot anyone, they intentionally miss. They are saints.
There's only one thing to do with people who think this way: ignore them.
[QUOTE=ThePanther;49317787]There's only one thing to do with people who think this way: ignore them.[/QUOTE] No. You call them on there bullshit. ESPECIALLY when they are on the news or other position of power. Just sitting by will just let them spread more bullshit.
Let's create drama to get attention! Why do they even do this?
[QUOTE=Passing;49317947]Let's create drama to get attention! Why do they even do this?[/QUOTE] Because MSNBC is dying, so they gotta get that click money. That and the people they employ aren't the brightest.
[video=youtube;I0VZj-85E5o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0VZj-85E5o[/video] [QUOTE=ThePanther;49317787]There's only one thing to do with people who think this way: ignore them.[/QUOTE] She's a news personality. Not some random idiot.
Oh look, another professional victim
According to the internet, Star Wars is racist against white people because it has a black person in it [i]and also[/i] black people (because it has a black person in it). Could this be the most racist film ever produced??
I wouldn't say darth vader is racist cause his outfit is black, that's just silly. although it does make me question the origins of the west associating white with good and black with evil, i'm sure there's some shady racism behind that but it's just apart of our culture now whether it was originally a race thing or not
If you say vadar was a black man, then what about the emperor, we don't know what a brotha will do when he obama the house, dem uncle toms when yez got white man pulling the strings. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitposting" - Big Dumb American))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=June;49318359]I wouldn't say darth vader is racist cause his outfit is black, that's just silly. although it does make me question the origins of the west associating white with good and black with evil, i'm sure there's some shady racism behind that but it's just apart of our culture now whether it was originally a race thing or not[/QUOTE] I really doubt that black-and-white duality is a product of solely the west, or that it has anything to do with racism at all. Race-based African slavery wasn't even a thing until fairly recently in history, and black-and-white dualism has been a thing for a very very long time. It has more to do with the daytime and the nighttime - daytime is safer and more secure than the night, the night is scary, people stereo typically go about bad business during the night, etc. The racial aspect is [I]sometimes[/I] part of it and it should be called out when it is, but it's clearly not in this. Black v. White or Light v. Dark has been a trope in literature and film and religion and everything since the dawn of human civilization. Tying darkness to unsavory actions and brightness to good ones is tied to day/night cycles, not a singular type of fairly modern racism. [editline]14th December 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Ithon;49318411]If you say vadar was a black man, then what about the emperor, we don't know what a brotha will do when he obama the house, dem uncle toms when yez got white man pulling the strings.[/QUOTE] Why does Facepunch always have some idiot crawl out of the woodwork and start talking in a stereotypically black way [i]every single fucking time[/i] someone says the word "black?" This post has literally nothing to do with anything in the OP or anything that's been discussed, you just wanted to go "Haha black people talk funny!!"
If anything the woman is racist for automatically associating the color black and its connotations with black people.
the existence of black people is racist too because they're black, not white. and the existence of white people is racist because they're white, not black. at this rate someone will say this someday
[QUOTE=Dougz;49317595][url]http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-melissa-harris-perry-star-wars-is-racist-because-darth-vader-is-a-black-guy/[/url] Video in source[/QUOTE] She needs to be fired. 9/10 times I'm reading about something stupid on the subject of race from MSNBC and it's this chick.
[quote]“The part where he was totally a black guy, whose name was basically James Earl Jones,”[/quote] ahem... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Shaw_%28actor%29[/url] darth vader was a combination of people working together to make a character, same thing with java (tm) the hut if you look at characters and have to assign a race to them, your outlook on life is terrible
How good must your life be, must the place you live be, if you consider the color the clothing a character in a near 40 year old movie is wearing a 'micro-aggression'
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