Will Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trigger Fans? At Least One.
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: "…I spent the whole day talking about the Darth Vader situation."
You may have already heard MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry's feelings on Star Wars. From Mediaite:
"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."
It's with that in mind that Reason TV came up with its own "Star Wars Trigger Warning" for those of us that may not know what we are getting into once we sit down in a movie theater this weekend:
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