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Resident Evil 5 trailer stirs criticism over race portrayal |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Capcom, Chris Redfield
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Just add in a black soldier into the team and a couple of white natives then there's no wrong conclusion to be made.
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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).
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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?
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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.
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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.
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to the blogger...go and do something with your life for f*ck sake and stop whinging.
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like wise if the game was based in middle east country or asia etc!
the ppl who complaint are dumb assessssss!
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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.
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there will probably even be a black co-star
you can choose to play as??
so quit nagging women
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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 ...
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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."
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THIS ISNT THE 60's ANYMORE!
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Oh and about the game... if re6 comes out... it will be like... killing japos in "city wok" (*****iwog)
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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.
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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
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Yes... I am more comfortable with the zombies being white. In fact, ALL zombies should be white from this day forth."
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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?
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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 ...
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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.
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!xobile
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Now I'm gonna be a white person shooting (black) ZOMBIES, i'm still not gonna care if I have fun playing it.
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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.
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The term race describes populations or groups of people as distinguished by various sets of characteristics and beliefs about common ancestry.
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http://jonvandalen.com/home/black-zombies/
People like Kym Platt and Al Sharpton are teaching America to treat blacks differently.
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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!!
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-we _ARE_ all drunks- duh!!
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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....
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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
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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.
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Go Capcom we are in your side ... all of us, all races united counter this polemic sssshhhhiiiiitt ttt ...
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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.
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did they have little pictures floating above their avatars?
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+1 :)
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"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!
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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......
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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.
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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.
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My 2 cents...
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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
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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
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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!!
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"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
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