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Resident Evil 5 trailer stirs criticism over race portrayal

Posted Jul 31, 2007 at 9:47PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Capcom, Chris Redfield

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Here's something novel we found through GamePolitics. It seems that the E3 game trailer for Capcom's Resident Evil 5 (PS3, Xbox 360) has managed to raise a big fuss over at Black Looks, a blog devoted to African women. In the blog entry, the author finds the portrayal of black people in the trailer as racist, especially given the scenario of a white man (Chris Redfield) shooting at them.

The post states,

The new Resident Evil video game depicts a white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people. The Black people are supposed to be zombies and the white manÂ’s job is to destroy them and save humanity....

This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages, the killing of Black people by a white man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them youngÂ… fearing, hating, and destroying Black people.

Of course, there might be some problems with this complaint. For one thing, since the setting is in Africa, it stands to reason that most of the people in area affected by a viral zombie outbreak would be black. Furthermore, previous Resident Evil games had the protagonists shooting at Americans or Spanish folk, depending on the game's setting, so there shouldn't be an issue of race here: zombification chooses no race. Lastly, a game like this isn't supposed to be meant for "children and young adults;" it's meant for mature audiences.

In any case, why not view the video again for yourself and come to your own conclusions? Watch it below.

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It was ok for Clair and Jill to light up white zombies all throughout a city, but my god if Chris has to shoot a black zombie, all hell breaks loose.

In all seriousness, people are just looking for racial issues. No one cares about race anymore, black and white aren't even real colors on the color spectrum anyway. So in reality, black and white are the same, end of story.

# I see all — Guest 2007-07-31 22:57

I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone came with that conclusion.

Simple fact of the matter many times blacks aren't always portrayed in a LOT of games in a none steroetyped, or negative way. With that said...

Capcom in my eyes, is in the clear, because they have had many kinds of "people" in the past in previously RE games being shot at, inclusing white people.

At first given real world events, when i first saw the trailer I was a bit thrown off. It DID make me think of racist thoughts in my mind. But I quicly remembered "Hey this is a RE game set in Africa, and white people in RE4 in another setting were zombies too". And then I didnt care. I just hope a positive blk character pops up somewhere in this adventure. lol

But It's Capcom, and given previouslty RE games, I think this blogger is jumping the gun instead of thinking first. Maybe they havnt played previous RE games. I don't know. But it seems liek a conclusion someone unfamiliar with teh franchise would jump too.

THEN again, if more peopel of color were in games in the first place... then I doubt that we would even be here paying attention to that blog. It's all about counteracting the bad, with enough good. And sadly for most blk characters in games there more former then latter.

# dumb dumb — Guest 2007-07-31 23:01

While I'll agree this blogger is just overreacting, I will say that if you think "no one cares about race" then you are either stupid, ignorant, living in a fantasy land, or all of the above.

This blogger may have a chip on their shoulders but, just because YOU want to ignore other real life race issues in the world, be my guest. However don't say stupid things that will make you look retarded.

# and.. — Guest 2007-07-31 23:07

I would also like to point out that many many many other blk people have already confronted the blogger on how silly she was being.

# ! — 2k1yellows2k 2007-07-31 23:21

Token Power!!!

# Questionable — AsciiSmoke 2007-07-31 23:35

I actually agree (to some extent) with the comments. It may say more about me, (white, mid 20s) but it stood out like a sore thumb that looked like a white western soldier killing endless black savages.

Just add in a black soldier into the team and a couple of white natives then there's no wrong conclusion to be made.

# this is stupid — Guest 2007-07-31 23:49

its not like all res evil games shoot black ppl, so your saying shooting all white people in games is alright but as soon as its black ppl its racist, fkn stupid if nething they are sharing the zombie shooting love and decided not to leave out the africans, next time its asians

(im asain) and also they said its not zombies or ganados in this game right? i think i got it figured.. its a new super AIDS infection

# This doesnt affend me — Guest 2007-07-31 23:51

And the last resident evil game had you killing spanish speaking people so is that racist against spanish ppl?

# -=Sigh=- — Guest 2007-08-01 00:08

Yes....I can definately see how it might appear to a someone not very familiar with video games. I was taken a bit too at first, but if the setting is in Africa, I would expect to see Africans in the game...zombies or not. I mean, there were Spanish people when it was set in Spain. It just immereses you deeper into the game.

Truth is, we haven't played through the game and can't really pass judgement on a trailer. Rockstar's "Bully", for example was protested to death because, based on the title and the trailer, it was thought to be about bullying. Yet it turned out to be way deeper than that.

Judge a book by it's E3 trailer??? I think I'll wait til all the content is in and I play it before I start bloging about it. Maybe she'll have a stronger argument if she can say she played the game and unlocked all the weapons and costumes, AND the "Jill Valentine Missions" (with no strategy guide).

# yay — Guest 2007-08-01 00:12

Well duh, thats the reason why i'm buying the game. I wanna kill these "Africans" (|N|A|G|G|E|R|S |) so bad, that CAPCOM is forcing me to buy an 100" HDTV and an Xbox 360 ELite, hopefully I can get both of these items.... in ceramic white.

I kid BTW, I'm curious, did the Hispanic race act the same way with RE4? Also, Isn't this game being created by the folks over in Japan?

# Give me a break — Guest 2007-08-01 00:52

You never ever hear about how white people are portrayed in anything. Didnt that "Jimmy crack corn" commercial get pulled because blacks complained that it was a racial comment lol. This racial ***** is ridiculous and its getting old. They could just not put black people in games period. But then again that is another thing for them to complain about.

# umm — Guest 2007-08-01 01:08

Hispanic is not a race. And For the record the Spaniards were/are white Europeans.

# you dont get one. — Guest 2007-08-01 01:14

Are you really this stupid??

A) For every 1 White negative portrayal in media, you have 10+ positive ones. Therefore counteracting any negative thing becaus ethe majority of it is not negative. THEREFORE a negative one will NEVER stand out so much.

B) 9/10 that negative steareotype for white people never has anything to do with the "race" and are usually ethnic or nationality stereotypes.

C) If you are too stupid to know what/where Jimmy crack corn came/comes from to know WHY ppl got offended, then you are even more stupid then your post leads us to believe.

# Interesting — Guest 2007-08-01 01:16

My thoughts on this is clearly that they were overreacting. While I recall someone mentioning that most black people in video games aren't portrayed in a positive image. For instance GTA: San Andreas where the main character is black and does everything possible that "society" is against. The thing is games are rarely developed by black people, aside from that these developers are going on the mainstream or current culture in there association of blacks, they're just following the rest of the media. In RE's case they're completely off since as mentioned they've killed every race of human possible. And if you ever played the outbreak series you had a black security guard who was one of the selectable characters. I also agree people do look for anything to pull the race card but I won't be ignorant and say that race isn't still an issue. And all this is coming from someone black.

# I am cool with it — Guest 2007-08-01 01:26

and I am black and I didn't see anything wrong with it and moreover I had like the fact the game was in Africa sure when I thought about it I knew some ppl will pop the gun without aiming but really I see how some ppl will feel about this so just coop with this for awhile it not like the game is gonna get cut

# God damn, this card is always delt! — Guest 2007-08-01 01:40

OMFG! I knew it! The moment I saw that trailor, I knew someone would call it racist. The moment any black person gets shot in a video game, they call it racist.

But did white people say that a black man shooting white people in GTA: san andreas was racist?...no. Instead they were mad that a black man was portrayed as violent in the game!

God damn, Lets just make every charector in video games white from now on! Oh wait, then people would be mad that there are no black people in video games!

***** its a no-win situation right there. I mean, I hate to sound racist, but everyone sees this going on. Someone always has to pull the racist card when ever African ethnicity is shown in a violent situation, regardless of what happens. Im not going to defend myself on these beliefs, because everyone knows its true, even if they dont want to admit it.

# yeah — Guest 2007-08-01 01:41

Its only a matter of time before the YTMNDs start rolling through for this game "N*gger zombie stole my bike"

# take it easy!! — Guest 2007-08-01 01:41

chill out ppl, its just a game. can you imagine the next complaint would be 'the game is too disrespectful to the dead....I mean killing shooting corpses'??

to the blogger...go and do something with your life for f*ck sake and stop whinging.

# actually they did — Guest 2007-08-01 01:44

No, Latino groups got mad over Ghost Recon: advanced War Fighter 2 remember?

# hmmm — Guest 2007-08-01 01:47

can you imagine replacing all the characters with indian/chinese/white folks hmmmm somehow wouldn't work because its africa!

like wise if the game was based in middle east country or asia etc!

the ppl who complaint are dumb assessssss!

# w00t — Guest 2007-08-01 01:57

This game is destined to get a BET award!!

# This is crazy — Guest 2007-08-01 02:11

I don't know what our world is coming to any more. It seems to me that a lot of (please note that I did not say all. I'm not stereo typing here) black people are more racist than white people in this day and age. Why can't we all just get along with one another?

Seriously, who cares if it's a white guy killing black women in a game or if it's a black woman killing white guys? It's a freakin game. There is always someone out there who has to b1tch about something.

# yup — Guest 2007-08-01 02:14

i think it is cool

there will probably even be a black co-star

you can choose to play as??

so quit nagging women

# affff ... — Guest 2007-08-01 02:20

If was a black guy shoothing white guys so they don´t care about it, it´s bull***** say that thing today, this is the stigma caused by the pass ...

The color of skin isn´t relevant, what we have in our hearts is and the evil can lives on all hearts, of white ppl, black ppl, yellow ppl, purple ppl, gray ppl, red ppl, pink ppl ... this polemics just help politics to grow in their carrers ...

Remember that on consoles we play with, elfos, warlocks, horse heads, chickes, dragons, cows, they really think that the gamer are racist ... no man don´t think this ...

# Ms CLeo; chillax Dude — Guest 2007-08-01 02:47

"Are you really this stupid??"

Do we have to resort to name calling all the time?

Hey, check this out, most stereotypes are based on the fact that a majority of the people fitting that stereotype do/are that way. The only problem with stereotyping is that you shouldn't apply it to people right off the bat.

Example; Most inner city schools have a HIGH dropout rate. Most of the people in inner cities are minorities. If you have a large concentration of minorities in an inner city, and over half of them don't graduate high school they may be ignorant/jobless people. Someone visiting said city who interacts with all of these uneducated minorities may come away with a bad impression of said minority group. The problem would be if that person applies what he has learned from a very small population to ALL members of that minority and then spouts out things like, "ALL Yellow people are jobless idiots."

# I say we give them what they want — Guest 2007-08-01 02:47

They want to complain about racism in games so damn much so they can hear themselves talk. I say we give them a game with a level of racism never seen before so that they will focus on it instead. calll it negro hunter. that should keep jessie jackson and al sharpton busy for a few days... if they dont kill eachother diving for an open microphone....groups like this make racism worse..most kids today arent racist at all its just these damn groups with political and financial insentives that keep it going.

# Bull — Guest 2007-08-01 03:09

No one complained when the white protagonist was shooting at spanish zombies in RE4! I'm spanish, but didn't find it offensive, it's just fiction. Maybe it's time we get a different race protagonist....either way people it's just a game!

# ... — Guest 2007-08-01 03:28

I could see if an unlockable costume was a white Klan robe and hood, but since its just probably going to be some goofy costume's and maybe Chris' classic RE1 costume, I dont see what the big deal is. Seriously, no one cared about the Spanish being killed in RE4, and if they make an RE where you are slaughtering crazed Asians...Im sure no one would care either, but no, when it comes to black people, (not all, but a lot) wanna complain about everything and call it racist.

THIS ISNT THE 60's ANYMORE!

# Yup — Guest 2007-08-01 03:47

Yes "chilangos" (Mexico D.F people) got mad about the game but by the time they got busy with the presidential elections... and paris hilton.

Oh and about the game... if re6 comes out... it will be like... killing japos in "city wok" (*****iwog)

# Pfft — Guest 2007-08-01 03:47

We add black people in, some complain, we don't add black people, some complain. I have never complained about a game people I killed white people, I have never seen asian people complain when asians got killed in a game. The Spanish never complained about getting killed in a game.

To be honest, if anything, that women should be happy this game is set in Africa, I would not mind a game being set in Scotland, killing zombies.

What ever way you look at it, there is no beating these idiots really. And by idiots I am meaning the whiners, not black people.

# Get real - Kym is racists — Guest 2007-08-01 04:03

She is full of it, if you read the comments on her blog you will see that she posted the following comment:

Found at: http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/resident_evil_5.html#comments

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5. Kym Platt

August 1st, 2007 at 5:49 am

R_N,

Yes... I am more comfortable with the zombies being white. In fact, ALL zombies should be white from this day forth."

# rrrrrr — Guest 2007-08-01 04:06

so it's ok to kill white people in a videogame, but not black people....*****ing idiots

# . — Guest 2007-08-01 04:13

ah.... here we go.. "ignant *****az always gotta ***** ***** up." -Chris Rock

# Typical race-baiting hypocrite — Guest 2007-08-01 04:23

Nobody complained when whiteys got shot up in what, the past FIVE games?!

Zombies are crazy and will eat your brains. It doesn't matter what race/ethnicity they are. You pretty much have to shoot them or die.

And where was PETA when you could shoot those poor defenseless zombie dogs in RE1?

# Wow — Guest 2007-08-01 04:28

This game looks scary, I think I will like playing this. The people that made this are Japanese, its not like they are racist against black people.

# WTF!!! — Guest 2007-08-01 04:33

that's it im tired of capcom. this is rascals bs and i'am making a petition to not let this game come out. capcom get ready to be sued, sued until your days end. dammit those are my peoples you much *****ers!!!!

# Now is our turn ... — Guest 2007-08-01 04:35

Now they are racist, black ppl have the stigma because their pass was hard, really we now about it, everybody can read this on books, but looks like now they want do the same thing with white ppl, if the aren´t racist they don´t care who is the prey or the hunter on game, it´s just a game, hell they prefer this or the pass?

Again, look that it´s near to come a politic behind this, always have a politic trying to get some votes with this polemics ...

Was the Rate on games and now the racism, what´s the next? They will tell that a boy just can play a boy on game and girl just girl because it´s gay a boy playing with a girl? I think this will arrive on this ppl ...

It´s what i said before, the console fan war isn´t real is bull***** ... now look what is the real war, we hardcore gamers need to be united counter this censure and conservative ideologies ...

The real war begins ... counter the closed mind ppl ...

# "I dunno" — Guest 2007-08-01 04:38

You're still missing the point about my reply to him. Its not about whether stereotypes are true or not. Sure some stereotypes are based on truth of the "few". The problem with stereotypes is that ppl begin to take them as facts and thus apply them to the majority. After that it becomes a "Self fufilling prophecy". And Im sure you know what that term means?

Anyways, my point was that in media, for all teh negative stereotypes for whites, there are 10 positive portrayals to counter act any bad ones that come up. That is the key difference. The fact remains, if blacks were in games more often in none stereotyped roles, this argument here would never take place.

# .. — Guest 2007-08-01 04:39

LOL dude "Spanish" people are white Europeans...

# ok do this ... — Guest 2007-08-01 04:40

Capcom will have a petition from us, really hardcore gamers, and i know that a lot of black ppl will sign this ... wait and see ... so here we go ... the justice will be done ...

# Racism in games — Guest 2007-08-01 04:42

Well said R Kelly, well said

# wow — Guest 2007-08-01 04:44

You clearly know nothing about Japan if you think that is true. Japanese people can be VERY racist towards blacks. In the past and sometimes in the present. Though RE5 is not one of them, you're foolish to say that it's not likely jp would do it. If you do some research you'd see how some characters in games as late as the PS2 had blk characters edited because JP devs portrayed them in ridiculous ways. ONe game that comes to mind is that Dance game "Bust a Move" , and Heats ending in Bust a Move 2.

# Very true — Guest 2007-08-01 04:47

Racism is still around. from some people. if they consider this racists that's their problem! besides, don't all people around the world eat food using their mouth? and breathe the same air. peeing standing up or sitting down? u know. we're all the same!! what's the problem?! bloody hell!

# this game must be hard — Guest 2007-08-01 04:55

think about black people being zombies. that must mean they run faster, jump higher, bench 500lbs!

!xobile

# GTA — Guest 2007-08-01 04:59

In GTA I was a black person shooting white people, I dind't care, I had fun with the game.

Now I'm gonna be a white person shooting (black) ZOMBIES, i'm still not gonna care if I have fun playing it.

# if this game were in india — Guest 2007-08-01 05:00

chris redfield would have to stop and take breaks cuz it stank so much.

this game cant be in the middle east, zombies in the middle east easily would make Bush drop a nuke.

in Asia...... too many STDs...so the zombies would die from AIDS anyway.

# dummies — Guest 2007-08-01 05:18

of course no one cared about spanish people (spicks) getting killed because they aren't human lol...and if they made a game with an only black protaginist killing white people, yall would ***** cus u had to play as a black person jus like u *****s did on crackdown.....o and im asian wit a 1 inch co*k

# hm — Guest 2007-08-01 05:21

In answer to "Hispanic is not a race", then what is a race? Are races by color? only black and white are different races? You racist...

The term race describes populations or groups of people as distinguished by various sets of characteristics and beliefs about common ancestry.

# lol — Guest 2007-08-01 05:35

I saw this coming. I dont own a next gen system, so i am just going to sit back and laugh at how stupid this matter is. This topic is screaming "Jack Thompson get involved" Going to be extremely funny

# Racism — Guest 2007-08-01 05:37

Racism is real. Im living proof. When i play my NBA 2k7 I refuse to play with any black guys on my team. So I replace them with the supreme white race. I haven't won a game though, yet.

# Very stupid — Guest 2007-08-01 05:39

OK i could see this being racist if it was in america, russia, japan or somewhere... but its staged in AFRICA! jesus christ! Of course they'll be black zombies! how f'in stupid would it be to kill white, brown, black, asian looking ...you get the picture.. zombies in africa? Now if i was in california shooting zombies and i saw ALL black zombies then you can make an argument, but it would still be stupid because its a video game! lighten the f.u.c.k up people

# ha — Guest 2007-08-01 05:41

everybodys rasist to a degree think about it on saint patrics day in the usa all kinds of people dress up in big green hats drink green beer and ast stupid put up big beer displays in stores like all irish people are drunks. and when some one say any thing about a english men thay all have bad dental work and are uptight are when you say anything about a mexican theyhad to jump accross the border. get my point every bodys rasict to a certin degree and to say your not is lying every bodys has preconcieved noticens about other races its just how you act on them. sorry about by spelling im mexican.

# Treating Differently — Guest 2007-08-01 05:48

I have posted my take on this to my blog:

http://jonvandalen.com/home/black-zombies/

People like Kym Platt and Al Sharpton are teaching America to treat blacks differently.

# black zombies — Guest 2007-08-01 05:52

that's why chris was working out so much, see those tricepts?

# go play a RE game — Guest 2007-08-01 05:56

just because you have weird dreams about murdering blacks.....

# in response to hm — Guest 2007-08-01 05:58

took the words right out of my mouth..

# LOL — Guest 2007-08-01 06:02

Self fufilling prophecy". And Im sure you know what that term means?

LOL!!! ms cleo i've got to appologize.. you see.. the reason your friends don't have jobs.. i'm embarassed to say this but.. i think its because us white people SAID they dont have jobs.. IM SORRY!!

# blacks make games.. — Guest 2007-08-01 06:03

but they're all GTA clones.. guess they dont care about image so much ..

# conservative? — Guest 2007-08-01 06:10

apsh.. don't misuse that word.. what this lady is doing is quite the opposite..

# irish — Guest 2007-08-01 06:12

i'm irish... AND RARARAR

-we _ARE_ all drunks- duh!!

# poor zombies — Guest 2007-08-01 06:32

I think it's horrible that zombies are depicted as black... zombies everywhere must be humiliated

# poor zombies — Guest 2007-08-01 06:34

I think it's horrible that zombies are depicted as black... zombies everywhere must be humiliated

# Rascist — Guest 2007-08-01 06:38

This video just shows the opression the white man instills upon us brothers! Down with the white man!

# poor zombies — Guest 2007-08-01 06:39

I think it's horrible that zombies are depicted as black... zombies everywhere must be humiliated

# Zombies — Guest 2007-08-01 07:18

This is so cool Africa as a game setting... T-virus+AIDS+**** *as= Sweet gameplay

# bullcrap — Guest 2007-08-01 07:23

come on im spanish and i didnt get offended by resident evil 4, and it takes place im asturias where my cousins live. in my opinion that guy has issues. i havnt seen anyone here in spain react negatively to the game, and the guys are called ganado (spanish for cattle) i guess that could be considered racist, i mean after all we are the poor guys in europe. but w.e. we have a sense of humor and we can take ***** like that. i bet ppl from africa wouldnt take that as offensive, i bet who ever wrote that was some sorry ass african american that cant get over the fact they were once slaves. so i say dude relax and enjoy your freedoms.

# Dumbass — Guest 2007-08-01 07:23

Obviously he's never applied for a job.

# Racism is becomming a thing of the past... — Shatterdome 2007-08-01 08:33

In Canada it is almost non-existant....so much so that people like this have to actually go out and LOOK for things they think are being racist....

The reason racism is a problem is because there are still people that THINK it's a problem......as long as you still carry the mentality that having a different skin colour makes your different and that you have to defend that, then you yourself are spurring on racism (ie. these bloggers) If we all DID forget about racism, guess what, it would go away, cuz no one would care....

# ass holes — Guest 2007-08-01 08:34

So you can kill spanish people in part 4 and no big stink

And becase its a black thing its white on black give me a break I don't care who he kills the game looks *****ing sweet so suck my ass losers and get a life how many of you actually been to hatie ya it takes place in hatie get your facts straight

# big f'n deal — Guest 2007-08-01 08:53

so in GTA: San Andreas since the character is black and there happen to be white people but that is not racism. Oh but if a white man kills a black man then it most deffinitely IS racism. No one except losers that no one likes is a racist anymore.

# Look at the application again. — Datnizzle 2007-08-01 09:54

Hispanic is not a race. If you look beside Hispanic on that application it says (mark Hispanic regardless of ethnicity). That's why people like David Ortiz are Hispanic and not Black in the US. But in his country he's black. The term Hispanic basically means "Spanish speaking person from North or South America" regardless of their race White, black, brown, whatever. I know Hispanics of 3 different races myself.

# in saints row you were killing tons of esays — Guest 2007-08-01 09:57

Its all good guys this comment about the game wont do anything to stop it.

# 'black ppl have the stigma because their pass was hard" — Datnizzle 2007-08-01 10:04

NOt really were pissed about the way we're treated now. Look at these post, behind every halfway thought out post is an ignorant one. For every person saying racism is not an issue, there's another one saying how happy they are to get a chance to shoot some n*****s. It's funny to me. Next time you see a black dude looking mean or a black chick with an attitude, think for what you posted here. If you posted some dumb racist *****, pat your self on the back, people like you are the reason we all have to deal with these sad people. If you posted some halfway decent thoughts, sit back and shake your head. These dummies on either side help no one.

# lol... — Someone_PR 2007-08-01 10:08

I was to reply but hm respond it for me... if hispanic aren't a race then I don't belong to no race in this world... I'm out of this world :|...

# sigh — Guest 2007-08-01 10:57

Just like one of the guys above me said, racism is a reality. If you aren't aware of it then please go shoot yourself. In this day an age it's very sad, year 2007, that people are still so very racist. I was playing a game the other day, and in the chat little white kids were throwing the n word, and other derogatory words referring to the chinese, spanish, and jewish people around like it was nothing.

You tell me, where do you think these kids got their hate from? Their parents. And this is just one example of whats going on in America folks. To say racism doesn't exist anymore tells me one thing about you, that you're white and that you aren't really a target of these racist comments and what not. For crying out loud do you even watch tv? The kkk still exist, they still prance around doing the rituals they do in the night, was all on discovery. So before you go saying anything that'll make you look stupid, look up a few things.

as per the woman, it's perfectly understandable she has those feelings. If they made the playable character black also, there MIGHT not be such a problem. Having a white guy, shooting at blacks who have been made to look like savages really doesn't look right. For those of you who said there are other games in which they shot at americans, and spaniards, well I would say the skin colors were similar and therefore thats why most people had no objections.

# Ms Cleo — Guest 2007-08-01 11:09

lol your a fool. Anybody offended by the Jimmy Crack Corn commercial can go jump off a bridge. Your reply is garbage and everyone knows damn well that black people complain about everything they can possibly complain about. How many RE games came out with all white people and nobody complained about killing white zombies. now there is some color in the series and now people are offended? Too damn funnY!!!!

# I had a feeling... — Guest 2007-08-01 11:24

it would come to this. I'm black and I don't see a problem with it. I've been a fan of the RE series for a long time and Chris is my fav character in the series. If Chris wasn't used in the game and it was like some new black character it wouldn't be a big deal. I didn't see them fight when Kenneth got killed in the beginning of RE1. Oh and the RE movies sucks total ASS

# ?? — Guest 2007-08-01 11:30

RACE WAR!!!!!!

# no .... — Guest 2007-08-01 12:35

It´s the old and pretty freedom war, without think what´s is your race, the racism is something that just live on hurted hearts at the world, on mind of ppl that need to be polemic to justify your fails ...

Go Capcom we are in your side ... all of us, all races united counter this polemic sssshhhhiiiiitt ttt ...

# Holy ***** — Guest 2007-08-01 12:52

Zombie Malcolm X!!!! IT'S ALREADY BEGUN!

# ... — Guest 2007-08-01 13:49

No race is superior to another, thats utter crap. You know what we all are under the skin? Do you? Bone, muscle, vital organs...thats it. I hate it when anyone of any race thinks they are superior to others because of the *****ing color of their skin...A COLOR! OMG! A SHADE ON THE WHEEL OF COLORS! Anyone who thinks whites are superior to blacks is an idiot. Any blacks who think they are superior to whites, also idiots...seriously, we need *****ing get over ourselves and worry about something more important such as um...trying to improve the *****ty world we live in. Who gives a rats ass if RE5 has an all antagonist group of zombie black people...ITS A *****ING GAME! Racism is all a problem with the insecurity of ones own self.

# not racist — Guest 2007-08-01 14:42

come on people are overreacting over this. The location is africa, what do you expect. like one of the comments said best, zombies dont care about race. And in previous installments of resident evil zombies have been white or other races, why no complaints there. So if chris was shooting at white zombies there would be no complaints right. Grow up people and see this as just a game and a setting so the game as 2 fit the setting.

# ^ That's because it is nothing dipsh*t — Guest 2007-08-01 14:56

Come on, you think little children on the Internet are being 100% serious when they say n*gger, and you think it means they actually do hate black people? You've got problems.

It's something when a white person calls a black person a n*gger and proceeds to beat him. It is not something when some little boy on a video game drops the N bomb.

I believe that little boys should not be saying that word, but you make it sound 100 times worse than it is.

# For every perosn saying racism is not an issue... — Guest 2007-08-01 15:22

What's that next part? Who said anything about that, in this entire thread? Oh right, only the people complaining that people are saying that they are happy they are getting to shoot n****rs.

# in reply to bbp — Guest 2007-08-01 15:27

i find it funny he comes out and says these kids were white.. but complains about racism

did they have little pictures floating above their avatars?

# cattle? — Guest 2007-08-01 15:32

cool, didn't know that.. guess it makes sense considering they were mindless zombies..

+1 :)

# ummmm....... — Guest 2007-08-01 15:32

this is dumb get over it y is that ppl get madd at a game and is not even real and if it really happened in africa ( the game ) it would have 2 happen in south affrica so ppl wontcomplain that iz retarted them ppl need 2 just stop complaining about games juuuusssttttt cchhhiillll!!!! !

# Err — Guest 2007-08-01 16:05

Yes.. and what about GTA San Andreas? No one shouted foul when darkskin Carl went about capping billions of white folk. Its a game for crying out loud!

# LMFAO — Guest 2007-08-01 16:12

I KILLED MY"KIND" IN RE4 LOL dats racist *****in people LMAO wow y do ppl always look for a way to ***** ***** up for real. i never gave it a racist thought on RE4 nor RE5 yall ppl needs to *****ing get over it there will always b racism only thing u can do is deal with it I DO EVERY SINGLE DAY *****!

# This is Bull***** — Guest 2007-08-01 16:56

I Am Black. Yep. And I think it's BS. You killed Americans. You killed Spanish. And now you kill africans and it's RACIAL?!? WTF?!?! It was ok to kill the spanih and *****?! Gimme a break. I'm black and I comepletely disagree with this crap

# thanks for perpetuating racism.... — Guest 2007-08-01 17:04

how is this even a story? who in the hell on this site goes and reads blogs about black women. i would say he/she is not doing their job of looking for gaming news. racism is still around because of people like this. my kids will hear about racism because people like this look for it in every single aspect of their miserable lives, and cry it whenever something does not go exactly how they think it should. it's a truly sad state of affairs. if we left racism to the stupid half wits that still believe in it, it would die out in a generation or so. unfortunately well educated people of some significance continue to make it their sole mission in life to find some unfairness, and then blame it on the color of someone's skin. what a complete waste of time. somehow they don't realize that by making racism a public issue, they are perpetuating it far better than some backwater moron that is truly racist ever could.

# So for the last 15 years — Guest 2007-08-01 17:13

it was okay to shoot white people, man this country is so f'd up!

# Its not racist if you kill whites... — Guest 2007-08-01 17:49

For some reason if I change the rolls around it isn't racist anymore...

"The new Resident Evil video game depicts a black man in what appears to be America killing White people. The White people are supposed to be zombies and the black man’s job is to destroy them and save humanity....

This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of White people as inhuman savages, the killing of White people by a black man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young… fearing, hating, and destroying White people."

You stupid ignorant black racists! Why the F should us white people take to your racist discrimination and in the same situation suck your small ***** to not look bad. F U and F your ignorant racist views you F'ing losers!

# um... — Guest 2007-08-01 18:31

I think capcom could fix the entire issue by making the main character colorblind

# typical — Guest 2007-08-01 18:37

Typical racist american black person.

This is why all black people in the world hate american blacks and why most think that politically outspoken american blacks are a laughing stock. They complain about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.

Anything that happens to an American black is always a sign of racism and if an American black perpetrates a crime or has any problem/difficulty then he/she is a product of racist white america..... what a joke. And my god...a white uniformed protagonist fighting hordes of zombies.....my god....how racists.....it is not like the majority of people in africa are say ...black!?

I wonder if the protagonist in this game were a black man if they would scream Japanese games designers promote self inflicted black genocide.

Funny, when BLADE was killing white vampires along with his sidekick old white guy.....I didn't see anyone get upset......

# ha — Guest 2007-08-01 18:41

Funny ...they can't get over the fact that they are decendents of slaves.....but I think they all ignore the fact that in egypt blacks enslaved the jews.....perhaps if the US ever decided to pay reparations (which some *****head always brings up every election...mine as well say hey white people here is a reason to finally start a race war) then the jews should demand reperations.... and *****...black people enslaved moses...thats some bull *****!

# Racism on Resident Evil? Please, spare me the bullcrap — decaden 2007-08-01 18:58

I think this topic is a waste of time, and is just adding to the hype of the next resident evil game. If you think this game is racist then you're an idiot, RE4 had spanish zombies, noone said anything racist about that. And the majority of the zombies in the first 3 were white, again no problems. King of scotland came out, nope nothing there but hey hold the phone, Resident 5 becomes the talk of oprah etc. Honestly people use your *****ing brain, its part of the hype, rumours and specualtion spreads like the bloody g virus around the web. Anyone up for a game of marioKart?

# And this is why I don't like these type of topics — Guest 2007-08-01 19:00

"This is why all black people in the world hate american blacks"

Er no, please don't generalise about 'black people in the world' and 'American blacks', because that's the same kind of generalisation behind the act of racism.

This topic comes from a blog of a black women who clearly knows nothing about video games, therefore she has taken what she's seen of RE5 on face value, with no research at all into the previous versions.

If she had seen RE4 and earlier, THEN she would have been able to put version 5 into context. Instead, all she demonstrates is her own ignorance.

So attack her if you must, but I wish you (and some others here) would stop responding by insulting whole groups of people because of the ignorance of the minority.

# .... — Guest 2007-08-01 19:02

Its more racist towards white people, all the black people want the white guy dead.

# Wow — Guest 2007-08-01 21:17

Seriously you are allowed to shoot white people in EVERY GAME but yet no white folk every complain.

# For God's sake! — Guest 2007-08-02 02:05

It's okay for him to kill 19thcenturyish south-american-spanish-speaking european VILLAGERS (not zombies), with nobody saying anything about the utterly wrong way it portraits the people of the only spanish-speaking country in Europe (Spain, obviously), but when it comes to black people things are different? Man, the only racist man here is the guy who got offended by the trailer in the first time, looking for racist features where there are actually none!!

# man xD — Guest 2007-08-02 02:10

Horray for Negro Hunter!! xDDDD if they REALLY made this they'd find themselves HUNG on a tree on the next day! xD

# makes me mad — Guest 2007-08-02 02:20

it burns my a** when black people tjink that white people are always after them. seriously if we were after... you would know it. and what about ving rhames in dawn of the dead black dude killing white zombies yet no one raises a finger or second gueses the imagry

# And by the way... — Guest 2007-08-02 02:22

And by the way, the whole "zombie" conept is originary from the mithology of a black tribe (I'm sorry i don't know which one, but I know it's black), and then it became popular amongst the white after they enslaved them, thus incorporating to the white mithology an idea that was originary of Africa. Then, if zombies are originally african, then why can't Resident Evil, the best-known zombie vieogame saga, make a release based on this? Shall we put prejudices before both history and enjoyment? It's a game, for God's sake!

# omfg... — Guest 2007-08-02 03:16

I NEED THIS GAME... RE 4 WITH BLACK GUYS AND NEXT GEN GRAPHICS = SMEXY FUN TIME

# too many comments — Guest 2007-08-02 06:07

I doubt anyone will read this but i'm going to just mention...

Has anyone ever seen the original Night of the Living Dead? Great zombie movie. And guess who is the only survivor? That's right, a black guy. And when he's yelling for help through a window in the last second of the movie, he gets capped by a cop. THAT'S racism. A white guy shooting at zombie Africans is not. Get over yourself.

As many people have already stated, people can't WAIT to jump on some kind of media that could be twisted around and seen as racist. Hell, someone thought LocoRoco had Blackface... (and Oilman from Megaman powered up DOES have Blackface BUT that's a different story)

Capcom is not a racist company. They are just trying to depict a great interactive story in a realistic setting.

# bloody hell! — Guest 2007-08-02 06:29

no one bat an eye lid when in shadowman 2 the black main character was killing all those white folks

# it's racism to say black people can't make good zombies! — Guest 2007-08-02 06:48

Did they think about THAT? lol, it's so stupid. I mean, like a black man can't make a good zombie. And anyway, in RE4, they were in spain, with only spanish zombies, so where is the diff. now? They are black? it's racism to say they can't be black.

# wow — Guest 2007-08-02 07:34

...just wow.

# I dont give a flying f*** — Guest 2007-08-02 07:49

im black and i dont see the problem here when there was a white man killing spanish people in 4 nobody said anything. i hate the word N*gger i dont care if you dont meen it your kids shouldnt even know it. this is the very reason im not playing halo3 online with a mic xbox live players are the most racist people on earth not everybody but a lot. PSN has a great community accept for very very few people who curse. they did cry foul on GTA san andreas because of the false depiction of black men but i still didnt give a flying f***. as long as the main character doesnt say die N*gger or darky or any racist remark im very cool with it. white on white crime 2 is a rising problem in a america!!! people complain when they see me with an asian girl so i switched to a white girl more complaints so im half cuban so i switch to a spanish girl no no no your 2 dark more complaints so i switched to a black girl wtf i just go out with anybody whos pretty there all just girls to me(it didnt work out with the last one sigh*) . in my eyes there arent any black or white blue or red its just f***ing people get that through your head already. gaming should bring worlds together not apart.

# i agree — Guest 2007-08-02 09:02

what should the color of my skin or anyone elses skin have to do with anything i do...

# ^^^^agreee with ya — Guest 2007-08-02 09:21

As a white kid from the suburbs, i am ashamed of my race when i hear all those awful comments online... I'd like to think that people are not as racist, as they were back then, but i jmay be wrong. I also agree that little kids should not use the N word or any other similar racist comment, but then u turn on mtv (or BET) and see 2 black guys saying it to each other... If that word is to disappear, no one should say it (doesn't matter what ur race is - just dont use it)

My 2 cents...

# EH is it just me or? — Guest 2007-08-02 10:19

is it just me or are the black ppl trying to the the white guy? in the game

# STOP RIGHT THERE — Morbidly 2007-08-02 13:30

IN DEF JAM THERE WAS A PLAYER CALLED 'GHOST FACE KILLA'

DID ONE SINGLE WHITE PERSON SCREAM RACIST??? NO! YOUR SEARCHING FOR RACISM BLOGGER! RACISM ISNT AS BIG OF A PROBLEM AS YOU WANT IT TO BE ANYMORE SO LEAVE IT ALONE

# STOP RIGHT THERE — Morbidly 2007-08-02 13:34

# Racism in Video Games — Guest 2007-08-03 17:57

As a Black American I can see the point of why there is such a fuss over Resident Evil 5. I feel this is due to the lack of African American characters in video games. I have been a gamer for the last 20 years and I can't think of 10 game with a primary African American as the main character (I'll give you five Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Vice City Stories, Street of New York, Crackdown, and Suffering.) I am not talking about the back up or friend of the main guy and I am not talking about sport titles or movie titles. When you look at all resident evil games you have a white character killing white characters. Have you ever see a black character kill only white characters (If you can , please name the game?) I feel that if you had more black characters in video games that were postive it would help the game industry. Think about all the hate that has been posted on the board about racism in RE5 (42 pages) now why is their no discussion about african americans role in video games. Even the games that we do star in we are either gangsters (GTA, Saint Row), Criminals (Sufferings) Hip hop artist (Bulletproof, Def Jam) or Athletes (Madden, NBA games). Where are the real hereos for African American? One of my favorite games is Red Dead Revolver, in the game I was so excited that an African American character was in the game. Then they stated his name, it was Buffalo Solidier. He did not even have a name. That is the bull crap that African Americans have to deal with in video games.

# STOP! — Guest 2007-08-05 09:51

u guys gotta stop... i think the game is goin 2 be excellent n fun...i luv resident evil i started playin it frm da 1st one...its awesome n i think der shod be no changes...but one thing WHY IS IT ON PS3?Why not PS2?

makes me wanna cry ..

some zombies in resident evil 1 2 3 wer white..der wer no complainzzz now in 5 der are .....well..da game takes place in africa.....so u gotta think...

STOP RACISM!!

# KILL THE DARKIES!! — Guest 2007-08-06 05:37

By definition, this game is racist...and the ps3 biased description is pretty funny:

"They are in Africa, so the people would be black..."

But there are white people in Africa...o_O

Honestly, as a black person I feel like it's wrong to see that many black people who don't really look "zombie-like" to be killed...(They also instituted faster speeds at the wrongest of wrong times...hahaha...)

It hurts a bit, but not enough to be offensive...so go on...KILL SOME DARKIES!!! YESSS!!! RID THE EARTH OF THE BLACK PEOPLE!!! I MEAN ZOMBIES LOLZ!!!

how did they think of this one...Black people as the most vicious enemies yet...pure comedy...very racist, but still just a video game...ban Yung Joc...that's what I say

# wtf/. — Guest 2007-08-06 06:34

seriously you black people who always find everything racist have to stfu once in a while. what if the re5 trailer had white zombies strangling each other instead of black? then it would be okay? well ***** you.

# stupid — Guest 2007-08-08 01:11

stupid porch monkeys always making a fuss about something thats nothing.

# racial? — Guest 2007-08-20 04:27

I just listened to Kym Platt on a Gamer Girls Radio podcast (www.GAMERGIRLSRADIO.com). Glad when gamers get a chance to enlighten uninformed non-gamers!

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