MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Stuns With Detailed Explanation of Why She Believes 'Star Wars' Is 'Racist

The most anticipated movie release of the year — Star Wars: The Force Awakens — just found itself in the crosshairs of MSNBC's cannons and the franchise declared to be "racist" by regular weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry.

Just before noon Sunday, during her show, Perry was discussing "Star Wars" in terms of "race and gender" with her panel.

Referring to Darth Vader, Perry went off on a bit of a rant, pointing out what she believes to be racism in one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time.

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, but I will try to put them over here.

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The panel appeared to find these comments entertaining and could be seen laughing as the camera cut to them.

Watch the segment:

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