African American Woman blog says RE5 is racist (we saw this coming)
 

http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/resident_evil_5.html

This writer must be a complete idiot.

1. Resident Evil isn't marketed towards children. The games are rated M for Mature and are marketed towards a mature audience. No kid is gonna be able to walk into a store and run off with this game.

2. Resident Evil in the past has always had white zombies in American cities. Starting with Resident Evil 4 they tried to change the setting to other countries in order to keep the game fresh. The game took place in Europe and had a bunch of spanish speaking enemies. This game takes place in Africa so it has a bunch of black people. It wouldn't make much sense having all white people in a African setting.

3. No one is going to buy this game for the sole purpose of training on killing black people. People buy games to have fun. If an adult used this game to train on killing black people they obviously have a mental issue.


There is so much wrong with this blog entry. They didn't bother to do any research and are trying to make a racist scene out of it. The writer seems more racist than anything.

Wait a minute? Does this mean there's no white zombies in RE5?

Pretty fucking racist right there.

What I like is "supposed to be zombies". As if there's no reason to believe that it's so.

The folks in that trailer, they're just acting ordinary

Killing them is so wrong ;_;



STILL, it would be infinitely more tactful to make the protagonist black as well, and to include at least a smattering of random white zombies. It's probably always a bad idea for Japanese companies to make games that feature black people prominently, though; your average Japanese individual has only ever seen black people on TV, where they are made to caper about like idiots. They probably have no idea why anyone could possibly object to "MOW DOWN THE NEGROS: THE GAME".

Are you out of your MIND? I'm buying RE5 just so I can shoot black people. I'm not gonna lie, there are no hidden motives here.

Fucking niggers, hope they all die a horrible zombie death.

WHITE POWER

LOOOL Seriously though. Worst article ever. Where was this bitch when we were killing all the mexicans in RE4?

Needs more Azn zombies. They'll be, like, waist-high to Chris and he'll kick their bucked teeth in. We shall appease the racist mindset this way :3:

Blog Author (in comments):
"Yes… I am more comfortable with the zombies being white. In fact, ALL zombies should be white from this day forth."
Lololol. Some people...

Also, I bought GTA: San Andreas just to repeat some Jasper County-style hate crimes as well as run over some darkies.

Miles--was that YOU that posted in her blog?

Why do people not THINK for a change? As one poster pointed out--she hadn't responded to any of the other posts again. Sometimes I guess ignorance is bliss....

She should probably be glad they didn't give them all the big fat nigger lips that suddenly made me feel bad for watching Death Note.

Still, it's not as if they're rendered inhuman by virtue of being black and/or poor.

Maybe she'd be more comfortable killing Iraqis or Afghans.

This is what happens when people put on their "racism blinders" and fail to do research.

I saw this on Digg earlier too. I like how the part about all the "mindless savages" that were pureed in a myriad of ways in the first 5 games were FUCKING WHITE.

Well guys. That's it. CHOCOLATE RAIN IS OVER.
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I like how they closed comments. I hope that that bitch recognizes that she lost thoroughly.

I like how, until the end, she kept wearing the badge that IN FACT YES she would love to be seen as a racist if it meant what she was saying.

Dammit, this is why I was gonna buy it.


Edit: Aw fuck. My joke is totally ruined because Tails said the same thing. I should read threads more often.

You? Tails? Saying the same things?

Dude, that is so unlikely. You can't be blamed for such a freakish coincidence.

Yeah, what are the chances of that anyway? Gotta be pretty astronomical at the very least.

Hahaha, STOLE YOUR JOKE BEFORE YOU EVEN THOUGHT OF IT.

Quick, someone check our IP addresses, they might be the same.

GET OUT OF MY HEADDDDDDDDDDDDDD

He's always the one backing ME up. Only the best get to be flight lead, y'know.

But it's the wingman that gets to make all the good jokes.

There's one joke and two of us. That works in our favour.

Mexicans live in Mexico. :(

You know, all these years playing Resident Evil, the ONLY black zombie I can recall is some cop from RE2. He wasn't random either; he was humanized and played an important (albeit minor) role in the story. Having the new RE games in different locations is supposed to provoke sympathy on the player's part I think; having a corporation or some evil entity controlling an entire population is certainly a gut-wrenching premise for a story. This woman has to understand that the zombies being black in this game is merely to change things up and make things accurate (wouldn't make sense for whites to be parading around, unless it was South Africa or something), and not a hate crime just because there's VIOLENCE HAPPENING TO A BLACK PERSON HEAVEN FORBID. =O

Oh well. Dirt like this only makes these games fly off the shelves faster.

One nonetheless has to be curious about why anybody would be performing super evil super science in sub-Saharan Africa.

It's an ideal location to do monstrous deeds. No one gives a shit and no one will stop you.

Because they want to kill black people, DUH.

Well, let's be honest, if any area of the world would let something as dangerous as the T-Virus (or whatever they're using to explain how these people become zombies,) spread, it's Africa.

Or maybe it's not evil science at all! Maybe it's just a horribly inefficient way of ridding the world of those stupid Christian Children's Fund people.

Maybe black people are four times more receptive to the T-virus. They sure look a lot smarter than the white trash zombies from your daddy's Resident Evil game of yore.

Next on CNN: Barack Obama speaks out against racist video game.

The plot twist at the end will be that the T-Virus is actually just genetically modified AIDS.

Why even lie, it's just a new strain of AIDS.

EDIT: GOD DAMN IT.

Ahahaha, got you AGAIN. God damn I'm good.

Wonder if anyone would be complaining if we were still in the age of pixels and sprites. Is it only offensive because games are so life-like these days?

Also, I wonder, can the T-virus be spread through sex? Chris Redfield might be fucked (and by fucked I of course mean outnumbered, although maybe...plot device!).

Max--they'd save that for RE69....

You know, she'd probably bitch if no RE game ever used any black people at all.

Just goes to show ya that not everyone can be pleased ALL the time =\

Tomorrow on the 11:00 Late-Breaking Report: Fans complain of no black people in the 'Final Fantasy' series of games,
with many dissuaded by Square Enix's weak response: "Oh come on, we gave you Barret!".

If every Resident Evil game didn't have black people nobody would care, because Black Supremacists are too busy wearing nice suits to care about video games.

Fuck you lady. "Racist" my ass, RE5 is going where no other game has gone before, and we should be thankful that Capcom is using this game to push the envelope and answer important racial questions* in today's overly PC society.

*"So if the zombie virus makes all these white people look really pale, then what.... what does a black zombie look like?"

A: Brownish-grey.

Yea, but there is the possibility that there are features down the road which will employ that anyways. That is, perhaps Chris will have to work with a black supporting cast to finish the game...

Meanwhile, I don't get how this game could be racist. From that perspective, RE4 is racist as well, because its an american killing spaniards. (nevermind the fact that they can kill you.) It seems that perhaps the person who wrote this blog has no idea what she is talking about and simply wanted to bitch. All in all, I think cooler minds will prevail in this situation. Its FAR too early in the development cycle to be jumping to such aimless conclusions.

Its not like the game is even close to being completed yet.

What about white people saying this game is racist and promotes hate crimes? At least he makes better argument than that black woman's blog. I like his movie better too.

YouTube Video

How do you know he's white.

Fuckin racist.

it really does look like Aunt Jemima though

He's still a fucktard.

Sounds like the guy's never read up on the status of Africa in recent years. "LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF THIS TOWN. HOW IS THIS AN ACCURATE DEPICTION. WHERE ARE THE CHOCOLATE RIVERS AND GUMDROPS THAT FALL FROM THE SKY, CAPCOM?"

This whole thing makes me weep. I hate how fucking stupid people can be sometimes.

I. . .

Am not going to ask is that photoshopped. That clearly is a black woman more buffer and built than Arnold Swarzenegger ever was in his life time. I wonder how much steriods/testosterome she had to take in to pull that off.

Although we all saw this coming a mile away, I can't blame people for getting the wrong idea about this game. It WAS extremely tactless of Capcom to present the game the way they did. I'm sure Capcom has some very important, colored, NPCs (and possibly even playable characters, one way or another), that appear in game, but the fact of the matter is that no such hint is given in the trailer shown at E3. We all know they don't mean to be racist, but the fact of the matter is that it was bound to be misinterpreted.

I also have to add that I don't agree on the "no one will buy this game on racist grounds", though. Sadly, realisticly speaking, there WILL be people doing this, but there's no reason to blame the game, or the developers for that matter, for being racist. They're just trying out new borders and boundaries, aiming at making an original, never before tried, setting for the game.

Additionally, saying that kids will be taught racist views via this game is an absolute outrage. The very reason kids will be playing this game in the first place will be because their parents are ignorant enough to allow them to do so. If kids see the game the wrong way, playing it because they want to kill "blacks", it's not going to be because they were taught to do so through the game. More likely, they'll have had this view long before they ever heard about RE5.

Ahaha. The Aunt Jemina thing makes me lol. His argument went to shit when he used the word "irregardless." That's not a fucking word, and it makes him sound like shit, among so many other things.

He even points out that there're no Spanish people! S'only racist if it's just Africans. If there were Spanish people for the white man to kill, everything would be just fine.

That woman just wants attention, like every journalist. They should just back off and let the game take place wherever the fuck it wants to take place.

http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/08/wh...dent_evil.html

Never speak to a militant.

Is it in my pants?


As with all instances of the White Jap man comin down on good colored folk I had to ask myself:

What does Stormfront think?

Thank you, Stormfront.

I dunno about ya'll, but a horde of angry black dudes coming after me scares me more than a Spanish lynching mob. Scary game in the making...

:tinfoilhat:

SouthJag --
Aw. I say "irregardless" often. I see the grammar error, but it just comes natural to me ;(

edit: Just like why I said "natural" instead of "naturally". o wul.

I just hope Capcom stands tall and doesn't give in to the bullshit.

Don't worry, all the people shouting RACIST at this game will be pleased to know that the ending consists of one of the black sub-characters gets it on with Sherry, knocks her up and then leaves her to go sell some drugs in another state.

That, and the other sub-character, a black woman, goes on to marry a successful black man, who only sees it fit that blacks marry blacks.

All will be well.

They closed the comments so I posted this in some other blog that was pretty much advocating the same dumbass message.

Well said Ultima, and thanks.

Nothing new here. Just people unknowledgeable about the game industry and games in general picking and choosing isolated events to further their agendas. It's been done before and it'll be done again.

In any case, I tried reading through the comments posted on the blog, but it mostly degenerated into "no one complained about white zombies" and "it's just a game" arguments. It got old quick.

I definitely don't agree with the blog's message though. It stinks of a lack of research and a quick draw response to, a frankly, poor quality video (at least get a better version linked if you're gonna complain! My eyes will thank you.) What's worse is that they shut down commenting on their first post, took a cheap (and stereotyped) shot at the gaming community in the second, and failed to provide and sort of concrete or knowledgeable reply to criticism.

And why are none of the other issues they posted on that blog (at least the ones I saw from the front page) not open to comments? Are those issues are not as open to discussion as some game that hasn't even been released yet?

God, why is it that you always hear about "Racism against blacks" and never a white person screaming "RACIST!!!"

Why is that?
I mean, has no one heard of white slavery? What about asian concentration camps??? WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!!!!!!!???????

That's a very dumb statement to make, since it can be construed that you were saying it's ok to make blacks look bad as a race.

Oops, my bad. I thought he said he was white in his comments, but I read it too fast. He said So he's American, but I don't know if he's white or not. So I am racist it seems, but who isn't just a little racist or prejudice these days. I still liked his video though: Aunt Jemima, lol :x

People who want to will whether or not I give my ok or not.

I like how this website has a link about blogging about AIDS.

loooooool all blacks have aids

Also their newest post say we should help a couple of people who stabbed a guy who said some mean things. Yeah, these people are sane. I was going to say something, but they had to turn off commenting on that stupid bitch who wrote the article. loooooooool internet

People who say things like this are the true racists and problems in this world. They show disrespect to their own race and other races by neglecting to focus on the true racial problems in this world by wasting time with BS like this.

and I'm not even getting to how she just automatically assume racist intentions on people she doesn't even know, which is also racist.

I think its cool that they are doing this in africa, maybe they will mix some sort of voodoo with a new type of virus or something, im so excited!!

I don't know why people pull the race card so much, ITS NOT FUCKING EFFECTING YOU!! so shutup and don't play the damn game if you don't like it!!!

i think they should change it to chinese people with sars. i dont hear chinese complaing to much about stuff

The funny thing is, now that this game is being blown completely out of propoertion, white supremacists are going to go out and buy the game with the idea not of killing zombies, but of killing blacks. If she had said nothing, I doubt there would've been much incident. But by exposing herself and the stupid idea of rasicm in RE5, she is actually hurting herself more and making herself more vulnerable.

This whole thing is a waste of time and resources. Its not only making a case of nothing, but taking attention away from racism in the real world. She really should've thought this through a little more before arguing her case.

i had a feeling that they were going to have moan about this. i don't care whether they are black or fucking blue! the woman who is saying this is a fucking idiot. i agree with you Miles. they could have moaned about this type of thing with biohazard 4, saying that the main character is shooting spanish men and women. the thing as well is they are not human (the enemies in biohazard 4 that is)!!

Also everybody hates Spaniards.

It would suck to be that scared of everything. Unless she's just bigoted, in which case my sympathy level drops.

You guys think this racist flavored hype around RE5 could result in receiving AO-rating? I mean, you could kill children in Deus Ex and soon in Bioshock (if it doesn't get delayed again). That's more shocking then shooting black zombies in my opinion.

In addition to the other games you could kill children in, but I wouldn't say the Little Sisters are really children in Bioshock. It's like they spent so much time de-humanizing them and now they expect us to seriously define them as children with ghoulish faces, orange eyes that glow in the dark, and a metabolism that digests dead people goo.

Plus when you harvest them, you don't actually see the act of doing it in Bioshock. It apparently just fades to black during the process.

Gaming's come a long way since you could blow kids up with a rocket launcher in Fallout...

then again aswell, if i have to admit, i do not understand why she is having such a big fuss over this. in my opinion it is just a game and nothing else. i have been playing the biohazard series ever since i was 13 and this has not made me think any differently, so why should biohazard 5 make me think differently?

Black people just want a spot on the endangered species list, that's all, why lie?

Reminds me of when Black Hawk Down was released and someone sued the film makers for being racist by portraying blacks as these violent horde-like savages. It would seem as if portraying a black character in anything close to or resembling a bad light is unacceptable.

And to think in Africa they're probably already too busy killing themselves to really care, maybe all these crazy people ought to be more concerned about actual massacres of blacks in Africa than whats going on in a video game.