5 Reasons Why Harris-Perry is Wrong About Star Wars

2.) Darth Vader is not Black

While Darth Vader was voiced by a man of mixed race, he is not played by one at any point in the series. He is played by Jake Lloyd as a child, Hayden Christensen as a young man, David Prowse in the Vader costume, and Sebastian Shaw when his helmet was removed. These are all white men, so there really isn’t a case to be made that Vader was ever anything other than Caucasian.

Even if you hadn’t seen the prequels, you could still deduce from the fact that Vader’s children are white, that he too is white. It doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together and realize that since Luke is the son of Vader, and is white, and Leah is the daughter of Vader, and is white, that Vader, and Padmé, for that matter, are both white.