My Favorite News Story This Week

 

“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.”

I don't even know where to start. But she is right. He was black until he rejected the Dark Side of the Force and then he was a white guy without the voice of James Earl Jones, the blackest of black voices.