I am filing a legal suit against every game maker

[TrolleyDave]

From you perspective it may look stupid and you do make a good point. But if you were to look at the issue from the perspective of black people you would know what these people have gone through when the white man enslaved them. (I think everyone knows their history here so I don't have to go any further..) I think that this the reason why the women who wrote the article might be upset about the game. I'm not black so I can't say anything for them. But this the only logical reason to why she would make a big deal about it.

What about the poor non-black races that have been enslaved throughout our history? Nobody ever stands up for them, the only time someone complains about slavery is when it's about Americans who enslaved Africans. There was slavery a long time before that.

Besides which, using terms like Asian-American and African-American just perpetuates the racism. How can you class someone born in America as African or Asian or whatever? Surely that's just more segregation perpetuated by the people who claim that they're trying to stamp out segregation?

 

[TrolleyDave]

I might add that in The Netherlands and Belgium, people *are* completely oblivious towards racism against black people.
One example is Black Pete, the slave of a rich white Catholic man who is a Santaclaus Analogue, which sends a clear message toward schildren that black people are the White Man's slave - very wrong especially coming from countries that had slavecolonies in Africa like Belgium and The Netherlands.

Also, Dutch television has been known to show old cartoons which were banned due to racism in the US, such as Tom & Jerry episodes where the housekeeper is stereotypically black.

People always forget that the woman in the Tom and Jerry cartoons wasn't a housekeeper, she was the householder. Surely that's a positive thing? Showing people of non-pale skin colors owning/renting houses way back then when it was bad to have people of non-pale skin colors in any form other than houseboy/housekeeper roles.

 

[Gamesphere]

But just because she is the householder makes it ok to draw her solid black with big lips?

Come on man. Use the brain.

 

[TrolleyDave]

But just because she is the householder makes it ok to draw her solid black with big lips?

Come on man. Use the brain.

I didn't justify that, what I said was that she was portrayed as the householder and not the housekeeper. The way she was drawn was racist admittedly, but she was a black woman in the 40's who owned her own house - isn't that an attempt at forward non-racist thinking even if the attempt wasn't the best?

 

[jakeruston]

This thread is absolutely ridiculous.

Games like this have an 18+ rating, and NOBODY IS FORCING YOU TO BUY THE GAME!

If you don't like the game, thats fine. There are millions of people in the world who do like the game and buy it. They buy it because they want to buy it. Games like this go worldwide, but you don't see other people complaining do you? Its just a game, everyone knows it.

Just grow up and think before you make pointless threads like this.

 

[alkasetz]

Well, to be fair to the OP, this has cropped up on other sites, most notably VillageVoice.com where a Ms.Ruberg wrote an article about this (and I found the article itself to be extremely offensive). So it'd be natural for it to end up here, seeing as we're all RE4 fans.