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5 Reasons Why Resident Evil 5 isn’t Racist
By Richard Windsor | August 1, 2007
I have always tried to stay out of discussions about racism, not because they make me uncomfortable, but because two sides can rarely agree on the topic. The debate over whether Resident Evil 5 is racist or not is one that I don’t mind chiming in about. Recently a woman who writes for a blog called Black Looks wrote a small article that stated the following:
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 young’ns fearing, hating, and destroying Black people.
Not only is her argument baseless and without intelligent merit, it is obvious she did not even bother doing any research whatsoever. So here are 5 reasons why her arguments are dead wrong.
5. Japanese Developed - She obviously feels the game is an intentional racist product, but last time I checked RE5 was being developed by a Japanese game company. Do the Japanese have a secret hatred for black people? The answer is no!
4. So Killing White Zombies is OK Amongst the comments to her blog post she replied with this statement:
Yes I am more comfortable with the zombies being white. In fact, ALL zombies should be white from this day forth.”
This comment just makes my head spin with the amount of stupidity in every word. I really can’t think of what else to say about this comment.
3. Zombies Aren’t Civilized I think that the author needs to watch a zombie movie or two to realize that they are not tame or kind creatures. Zombies don’t politely ask to eat your brains; they just chomp down on your skull like it was a big hairy apple. Luckily zombies are not real, or are they? Should the developers make them nice zombies just because they are black? The answer is no, zombies no matter what color are zombies, and any person who is smart enough to pass sixth grade can tell that. It is not racism it’s called variety.
2. Location Location Location This being RE‚Äôs first go round with next gen hardware I imagine the developers wanted to go to a location that looked as gritty and earthy as possible. Africa is a perfect setting because it is a beautiful area that allows for many cool plot points. The game just would not seem right if the zombies in Africa were white. Africa is a great location for a game and just so happens to be populated heavily by Africans‚ imagine that!
1. White Zombies Have Been Done to Death Ever since we first got a taste of Resident Evil every mindless slow walking zombie we have come across has been white, in skin color at least. Black people get killed in movies all the time yet I have not heard of protests about it. Would we be seeing an uproar if the zombies were all women or would PETA be upset if there was nothing but dog and cat zombies. The United States has a lot of work yet to do when it comes to race relations, but we have come quite a long way so far. A video game about zombies should be the last thing we worry about as a culture. Maybe we should pay more attention to huge number of kids caught up in skinhead groups or the reorganization of the KKK that is happening in America, but no we are sitting here talking about a video game‚ and that makes me kind of sad.
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Comment by Paul — August 1, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
LOL moment: “they just chomp down on your skull like it was a big hairy apple”
Comment by PTeezy — August 1, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
It’s called demographics…if you’re in Africa…there’s bound to be black people around right? So…whats the problem? People that thinks RE5 is a racist game needs to get a better education. All you’re doing is showing everyones how ignorant you are.
Comment by benjamin — August 1, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Funny, she sounds totally racist to me. I’m offended that she thinks all zombies should be white. This lady sounds ignorant when it comes to media. In no way is RE meant for children.
Comment by Trioptical — August 1, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Not exactly the best argument for RE5 not being racist, but I do agree with the general idea. I think the argument that RE5 is racist comes from people who have only seen trailers and screenshots judging the content. Sure, from a purely visual standpoint, it’s a white guy killing black people. I don’t think that’s the first response most people have, but it is a possible interpretation.
With context though, maybe through playing the game or reading the story perhaps, one can quickly see that there’s no racism involved because these are obviously some sort of deranged creatures and not people.
Let’s say there zombies. Should black zombies be representative of black people? Can anyone even make that connection? Do we view white people as a slack-jawed, slow plodding, brain eating bunch because of the way they’ve been portrayed in zombie games?
Comment by darkseid1 — August 1, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
I am really astonished and completely speechless knowing the level of stupidity in some people. This woman has totally lost it, she probably has nothing better to do. By the way, I happen to be a black guy and I have no problem with RE5 and I’m practically dying to play this game. Who cares if its just a white guy killing blacks, its just a damn video game. Its obvious that she is racist, I never heard Spanish people complaining about RE4. This matter is completely baseless
Comment by HuckebeinUngawa — August 1, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
Why thank you Richard for everything you just wrote. You touched base with everything I wrote when this article surfaced. Sad to say that she let a potential racist topic over excite her instead of doing research on the subject at hand. However that just goes to show you that some people are quick to high light certain aspects of a “argument” instead of following through with the truth…
Comment by evilhadou — August 1, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
Rebuttal to your Argument…Not asserting her’s is correct.
5)”Do the Japanese have a secret hatred for Black people?” - Are you saying if this was done by Americans the answer would be yes? That comment is not an argument, it sidesteps whether the Japanese were insensitive to the racial issue inherent in making this game or recognized the issue and made it anyway which can be construed as racism…Recent history and today’s reality make racism readily acceptable to anyone. Japanese or otherwise.
4)I didn’t see this comment in the initial story but I agree it sounds like it was not well thought out…
3)Didn’t see this in the original article but I did view the trailer which depicted an African setting that was not as techologically advanced as some parts of Africa are. - as for the zombies themselves being civilized…I agree with you there
2)Location is extremely important in a resident evil game because the story and ambiance is dependent upon it to an extent. Using Africa in my opinion is fine but portray it as it is in reality w/ many different races residing there (apartheid anyone?) as well as its proximity to neighboring countries. Show diversity in the people and this issue of racism would not have been brought to the forefront.
1)The points that deal with what is truly relevant to society is agreed upon wholeheartedly by me. However the “white zombies have been done to death” is an odd comment. Before this game was introduced I doubt anyone would have said, “I loved [insert zombie movie/game here] but I am sooooo sick of all the white zombies!” That is not an issue whatsoever in my opinion. You care about the experience, not the skin tone of the zombies…unless said skin tones arouse feelings of racism or insensitivity to race and history.
Comment by Malik C. — August 1, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
FYI the location hasn’t be confirmed yet. It seems more likely to be Haiti then Africa seeing as how they have a closer connection to zombies(just go to wiki I don’t really want to dive into the history of voodoo) then Africa does. Regardless for that, Africa isn’t exactly the only place in the entire world where are dark complected people.
Comment by Rory — August 1, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
This may sound a bit weird.. BUt I believe that it is racist to call the game racist. Because you are in fact implying that it is ok to kill white zombies but when they coloured differently it suddenly matters. If you weren’t racist then you would just view it as people killing people and not single them out as a type of people being killed. Besides as mentioned in the article this game is being set in a country which is predominantly black people ffs.
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 1, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
Resident Evil 5 is stepping on the May 31, 1921 race riot killings. It’s art imitating history that should not be repeated.
Comment by Cam — August 1, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
The real problem is that it is in Africa. As you said your self, obivously heavily populated with Africans. Among all the Africans the one that was choosen to survive just happened to be the only white guy in the village. Does this say nothing to you?
Comment by Sandok — August 1, 2007 @ 4:23 pm
Cam, what do you mean?
Chris is not a “surviver” from what we know (to be honest, we know nothing about RE5) but from what I can gather, we was sent in to figure out the cause of a plague / virus (blood leaking from your eyes isn’t normal…).
Honestly, if the game was in opposite colours (black hero, white zombies), nobody would cry foul so why, when the colours are spun around, do people get all hyped up? I knew somebody would find it offensive but really, get a grip on reality.
Good article, just points out the *stupidity* of this blogger.
Comment by Sammael — August 1, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
Ugh. enough… first off, this idiot’s blog should not be quoted or linked any more. She is one of those people that just looks to rile up attention by focusing on sensitive topics like this.
Secondly, I love how everyone feels that they need to defend the game. Anyone remember Bully? All the “terrible content” was nowhere near as bad as the detractors first thought. I’d like to wait and let Capcom do the talking.
BTW, the Japanese are pretty racist as a society from what I know. They really don’t care if they are being racially insensitive (IE - look at some of the characters in Loco Roco.) but that doesn’t necesarrily apply to RE5.
Comment by Ninj8bot — August 1, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
That chick is just trying to get attention and it seems to have worked.
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 1, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, & 4 had a white character killing other whites. Resident Evil 5 should have a Haitian character killings other Haitians.
Comment by Naiberson — August 1, 2007 @ 5:27 pm
I just want to add that the origin of voodoo is West Africa. Soo…
It makes perfect sense to anyone who’s read Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide.
Comment by Bill — August 1, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
This woman is obviously racist herself (yes it’s true black people can be racists and a lot are) and should just be ignored.
Comment by HaHa59 — August 1, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
As a hard core gamer, and more importantly, as a African American… I dont think Resident Evil 5 has anything to do with Race. I think it does have everything to do with Location. Resident Evil 5 takes place in Africa. What a coincidence… there are quite a few black people in Africa. Im pretty sure that if the game took place in China… the zombies would be Chinese… India…..Indian… Mars… Martian..etc., or at least I hope. Thats the just the way it is. Same thing applies for movies. You dont shoot a movie in France with a German population. I think when Africa was decided on as the location for RE 5, I think the idea was that Africa had hardly been used in a game before… if ever. So its something different, its fresh. I dont believe the idea was “the killing of black people by a white man.”
If there is anything to be upset about it should be the violence… PERIOD. And even that is a far stretch. But at the end of the day… whites shooting blacks is wrong… blacks shooting blacks is wrong… whites shooting whites is wrong…. shooting is wrong. (Fun as hell in video games though).
Comment by gary h — August 1, 2007 @ 6:03 pm
Mister Richard Windsor:
I think that you make some interesting points about the anonymous writer
Comment by Cat Eye — August 1, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
I don’t care what anyone say racism is over long ago…there is no black or white + in resident evil we always see black & white people turn into zombie…all I could say is this thing that wrote that thing is the one with racism sight…I come from a country where we seen as sexual animals..rich..fat..stupid & pay too get what we want…in movies,on the internet every where our culture has became joke to everyone…isn’t that racism…still I don’t care cuz they r the jokes to us by not knowing a thing about us ((the less they know the better))
Comment by Mac — August 1, 2007 @ 6:54 pm
hehe, this is quite entertaining.
Comment by David — August 1, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
I’m suprised by how closed minded people can be.
The question is not wether the zombies are white or black or any other colour. the real question here is that some people are gonna be offended by this game. And there is a ligitimate reason for this. In this game you play a Big musculare white guy killing blak zombies (who dont look like zombies). If you look at the previous RE’s the Zombies looked like things out of hell you couldnt miss ‘em. Granted we’ve only seen the trailer but from that trailer you’ll be hard pressed to tell the zombies from the normal civil population.
And this whole thing about this game was made by Japanese people so it cant be rasist is just STUPID yea thats right the person who wrote the article is a FOOL!!! Japanese people can be rasist too, anyone of any colour or nationality can be rasist (Japan has a long history of rasism second WW anyone)
Comment by Chris — August 1, 2007 @ 7:02 pm
“Resident Evil 5 should have a Haitian character killings other Haitians.”
Why? Its about Chris Redfield following through on the virus outbreak, not lets see how may black people he can kill.
Its a game about killing zombies, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S!!!
Not Black people. Cedric, you are indeed foolish to type something like that.
There is way more racism in the world to debate this game. How about REAL people getting killed over racism? Or are you suggesting this game teaches hate. Against what, zombies?
Its the parents job to keep Mature rated games out of kids hands, and its the parents job to teach about racism and the evil it spawns.
I’m sorry but until a game called Lets kill the blacks(or any other race) comes out, I don’t think videogames have a big deal to worry about in the racism department.
Lol for this topic…….
Comment by Sifer2400 — August 1, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
STORM MY MINIONS STORRRMMMM lol ive seen this topic go crazy on like every game site out there lol
Comment by anopolis — August 1, 2007 @ 7:32 pm
@ Gary h. as for your “continuous inquiry” um cause most developers are white.. just like comic book writer/artists and nerdy d&d weeners.. not ALL white but dang near.. see thats why D&D nerds are often not white, but pasty white!! this whole dang thing is a woman trying to stir some fun up.. and all of us fell hook line n big fat sinker
Comment by Richard (Aeropause) — August 1, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
Well Mister gary h
I never said one could not see a context of racism, the problem is that anyone who sees it and thinks that it is actually causing racist thoughts or for some reason would cause someone to be racist is ignorant.
And for your information I have lived in this planet long enough to see and be apart of many instances or prejudice and racism.
Your comments are just as biased and as dumb as the person who said this game is racist, no matter how many big words you use!
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 1, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
Comment by ultim8p00 — August 1, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
Urgh, you guys don’t understand. NONE OF YOU DO.
I’m not saying that the game is racist, but try to understand where this woman is coming from.
I don’t think CAPCOM actually wanted to create a racist game. It’s just that the history behind black and white relations is not a good one. The fact that you play as a white guy shooting black zombies is enough to flare up old memories. It’s undeniable.
The RE4 game was “ok” because spaniards and white people have no history of oppression. There’s nothing to make one even think about something like that, that’s why no one cared.
RE5 on the other hand has a white guy against black zombies. Something is bound to come up obviously, weather it was racist or not. So don’t call this woman totally stupid or something. There is some sense to what she was saying.
What if RE6 had a German guy in a European country infested with Jewish zombies? I bet a lot more people are going to complain about that. I doubt anyone is going to be saying “It’s just a game.”
Comment by angelo figueroa — August 1, 2007 @ 9:11 pm
THIS SUBJECT IS ONE OF THE MOST HEATED TOPICS THAT IVE SEEN IN SOME TIME, AND EVERY BODY FEELS PRETY MUCH THE SAME ABOUT IT. MY OPINION IS IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT RESIDENT EVIL (bIO HAZZARD) ITS THAT THE FIRST ZOMBIES TO DIE WERe RICH WHITE PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN A Mansion, thats all i need to say
Comment by Sean — August 1, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
Uhm sorry to point this out, but you are really thinking too much into this, you are like the guys on halo.net who rewatch every frame of every new halo trailer.
They decided the game was going to be set in Africa, why, who knows? IMO it is because it is a beautiful land which has rarely seen the attention of games.
Oh dear GOD it has Africans in it! What will they think of next!? A romantic scene on top of the Eiffel tower with… wait.. YES TWO FRENCH PEOPLE!
Is every single zombie black in RE5? No. Are the vast majority of people in Africa black? Yes. (Sorry for you racists that only just learned this)
If you feel so strongly about racism then why not do something about it, instead of bitching about a game which clearly has no real intent of being racist. Holy crap people can be dumb some times.
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 1, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
It’s just a game; Chris Redfield can be African-American this time.
Comment by Chris — August 1, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
He’s not shooting zombies? They look like Zombies to me! Or better yet, how about FICTIONAL video game characters! Cedric, your points have no validation. So they are a new breed of zombies, fine we can call them something else, but they are not human(by video game terms)!!!!
Your skeptisism of racisim is diluted by the fact that all you see is white guy kills black guy. Not the fact that these people(Zombies) are evil and want to kill everybody else, even thier own kind! So I guess its okay to have black on black zombies eating/infecting other African people. Think before you post……RE5not racist….
Comment by Brinstar — August 2, 2007 @ 1:55 am
Your argument for point #5 is tenuous at best and ignorant at worst. Japan’s most powerful ethnic groups have a history of imperialism and domination based on racial purity or superiority. To say that the game isn’t racist based only on the fact that it’s being developed by Japanese people is shows your ignorance of Japanese history and their bid to conquer Asia from what the people in the past saw as the “lesser” races of Asia.
Comment by Richard (Aeropause) — August 2, 2007 @ 2:20 am
@Brinstar
Try reading things a little more carefully before composing your comments. It’s meant to be from the point of view of an American. Anyone knows that every culture deals with prejudice and racism but there is no widespread racism towards Africans coming from the Japanese people. Do some actual research, instead of acting like you know anything, and you will see a huge gap in where race relations lie.
I never said the Japanese could not be racist but it is far less likely considering their culture does not have even 1/100 the exposure to people of African descent as our country does. If the game was published in America then one could say that a developer might be a Nazi sympathizer or some kind of skinhead fanatic (however unlikely) but study Japan and you will see a much different cultural structure.
So please take some time to compose your comments before spewing verbal diarrhea.
Comment by Pmteigas — August 2, 2007 @ 4:57 am
I think she’s right! There should at least 3 versions of RE 5. One with white people to be played by white people, another with black people to be played by black people, another with japanese people to be played by japanese people…
This woman is insane. There should be a tax for being this dumb! It’s ok if we’re shooting white people but, hey… no way should we shoot black people! This kind of comment aggravates the problem. She’s creating a racist problem where there’s none! When are people going to realise it’s just games!
I’ve been “killing” nazis, russians, muslim, americans and so on for over 15 years and, guess what, I don’t have a problem with none of them!
I think she should get a life of her own…
Comment by Huggable Zombie — August 2, 2007 @ 6:13 am
Comment by Thargh — August 2, 2007 @ 8:41 am
C’mon RE5 aint Racist.
There might be some racism in China, but wtf, that was 1 out of 5 of his opinions, and it wasn’t the number one or uber or final one, and he didn’t do a direct flaw but a illresarched one.
A german guy killing Jews, first off, they arn’t all jews, secondly, this is different, your basing on Nazism, which jada jada jada you know alla bout how terrible it is, its different than normal rascism, say, cuz i wouldn’t have a problem with controlling a black guy shooting whites, ive done that before actually (Crackdown, and if i had played a Blade game (does such one exist?) and you can TK with Cole Train in Gears if you want xD)
Comment by dennett316 — August 2, 2007 @ 9:28 am
SirCedric, you sir are a fool.
It would be extremely stupid for Chris Redfield to be African American, (by the way, black people come from other places, not just Africa!), because he has been pertrayed as a white American in 3 games so far. For him to be changed purely to pander to the delusional rantings of some racist moron on a blog would be pathetic, even offensive.
There is NO basis to this woman’s arguments whatsoever, you can argue that people will be offended by a white guy shooting black guys, but why? Why would it be any different to have a black person doing the zombie-killing? Surely that would upset people due to black on black violence as associated with gang-culture?
Quite frankly, when I saw the trailers the issue of race never even entered my head and I’m surprised that so much time has been devoted to such a non-subject. The lady who originally posted the blog should be ashamed of herself for setting her own cause back so far with these idiotic opinions of hers. And anyone who agrees with her is just as mind numbingly stupid as she.
Comment by willey — August 2, 2007 @ 10:52 am
I’m sure she also cried when in 28 days later, the BLACK zombie was CHAINED up in the yard of the COMPOUND!
Sheesh, let me know when the zombies are wearing blackface and then we might have a conversation here.
Comment by Mo — August 2, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
I have a problem with your first reason - are you saying that racism is a non-issue in Japan?
Depending on where it is set in Africa, actually, there are bound to be some white zombies. We’ll see! As it stands, has it actually been confirmed that it is in Africa, or is it still just hearsay?
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 2, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
The Haitians don’t look like, nor do they act like, zombies.
Comment by ChityChityBangBang — August 2, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Sir Cedric…you are an idiot. Check that, you are their LORD. Let’s change the main character’s skin color to appease a limited minority of people to have never followed the game’s (all of them) history. If these ignorant people don’t bother reading about the history and plot of games past then they have no business making comments about the current game. As to the “voodoo” context, which it certainly seems to be…look up the history of voodoo. The actual history of voodoo (REAL LIFE) talks abotu actual cases of people that were thought to be dead but are walking around again. These stories ONLY originaye from western Africa and the Carribean islands. Voodoo is not the process of reanimating long dead corpses but the process of talking over a body.
We have a game trailer here that is representative of traditional voodoo, talks place in either the Carribean of Africa which…surprise, surpise has a population that is majority african. The main character (a white guy) is investigating the zombies. God forbid the main character shoot something (again something *zombies*) that are intent or hurting them. The previous instalments of the R.E. franchise has always followed the topographic area which the games were set. I.E. - The zombies were a white majority…
I know, let’s place the game in Anarctica where people can’t survive, therefore there is no color majority and have him walking around shooting zombie penguins. Wait am I saying…then it wouldn’t really be a traditional R.E. game now would it. Pull your head out of your butt.
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 2, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
Let’s change the game and give the Haitians fully automatic submachine guns and pistols. Like voodoo, automatic weapons are popular in Haiti.
Comment by Shaun W. — August 3, 2007 @ 2:06 am
Listen this Lady that made this thing of RE5 being Racist is Racist her self, and from the looks of it, she is also stupid. this hole thing is total nonsense and shouldnt be even in on any site. firstly she say the game is for kids and young adults and thats totaly wrong, RE series was always adult based so she is wrong there..and the fact that she say all zombies should be white, omg she is ridiculous and shouldnt be taken serious, im a black man , i have no fault with the game for the first in the series till now. Im glad to see black people in the game, but i really dont care..You know some black people can be the most racist ones out there..and they need to stop that seriously…i want this game to remain how it is in africa or whatever …such nonsense!!
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 3, 2007 @ 3:34 am
I want Resident Evil 6 to feature an African-American male shooting an angry group of Japanese or Caucasian women. Then for Resident Evil 7 we can have a German male shooting groups of angry Jews. Resident Evil 8 can have a male of Middle-East origin shooting groups of New Yorkers. They’d just be games.
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 3, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
Do the people in the Resident Evil 5 trailer look like this?
[img]http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1270434.jpg[/img]
You guys don’t even know what a black zombie looks like.
Comment by Chris — August 4, 2007 @ 12:14 am
Yawwwwn. Cedric, give it up. Your just starting stuff to respond with your stupidity. I don’t even think that RE5 offends you, you just want to jump on the racism bandwagon. Look, Chris Redfield has been around since the first RE, so people relate to him and his sister. To change the character would upset the balance of the story.
But changing the character seems to be okay with you right? “Its just a videogame.” You said.
Exactly Cedric, its a freakin videogame, and nothing more. And I hate to break it to ya, but its going to come out, and people will play it, so thats it, you lose.
This is the last time I am going to acknowledge your ignorance, so listen well.
You are solving nothing by this debate. NOTHING.
It will get the future of humanity nowhere by arguing over a game. People constantly bringing up racism over any little thing is keeping the hate alive as well.
If humanity can not move on with the big racism events that happened long ago, then the chances for racism to decrease will never happen. Remember what happened, but don’t bring it up to start something thats not worth arguing over, or you will start to become the thing you hate.
Plain enough for you?
Let the majority of the world decide if RE5 is racist, then you will see what you tried to start, but coud never finish……….Good night.
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 4, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
The bottom line is some of you care more about how YOU feel about the game instead of how OTHERS feel about the game. Is that racist? Could be; but most likely some of you are just selfish. The war isn’t being found on the message boards so don’t feel like this is a campaign here and now.
You can’t defend a game based on just how YOU feel about a game. You can’t even defend a game based on how the majority feel. If the game offends people retail will not sell the game. Did Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas offend you?
Comment by Sir Cedric — August 6, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
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Comment by Don Miguel — August 9, 2007 @ 9:31 am
RE5 needs a black shooter 4 the game nt look racist! If they had given enuff spotlight 4 black police officers back in racoon police department none of these would be an issue! Right?
Comment by yoel — August 23, 2007 @ 2:32 am
well that person obviously never picked it up,
Comment by zombies don't even know it's christmass! — July 22, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
I think the lesson here is no matter you race, age, or burning need to eat human flesh to no extant were all humans. except for zombies. and when the zombie’s take over the world I’ll rember not to shoot the black zombies, because that would be racist.
Comment by keith — July 23, 2008 @ 11:45 am
well, I’m assuming posting something is like preaching to the choir, but another thing is, how come the blacks offended by RE5’s depiction of Africans didn’t seem to realize how Hispanics were portrayed in RE4? I think it’s pitiful how sensitive people are, especially by just a video game. If they think this is offensive, then they need to stop slinging around the “N” word like it was nothing, and start understanding the roots of that word.
Comment by Tina — July 27, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
I agree w/ everything except with #5… Asians are REALLY racist (my mom and relatives) though they say they aren’t and probably don’t mean to be. Look up that commercial where that black dude (though it’s a sad one) keeps getting shunned by people and he goes home and lies down on a toothbrush and turns into an brown herbal toothpaste (message is “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” lol f*ed up). However, I don’t think they meant for it to be hateful.
The only thing I found slightly racist with the trailer was that normal Africans were made to have a slightly crazed look about them, but other than that it’s fine. White zombies have been done and done.
Comment by Ray — July 31, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
rac·ism-
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Racism is the belief that certain races are superior to others. Nothing in the game denotes racism. Differences in skin color aren’t racism, a white man in africa is not racism. Chris Redford isn’t committing hate crimes by killing black zombies/infected in Africa, he’s trying to survive in a SURVIVAL HORROR GAME.
Comment by john — July 31, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
shit like this pisses me right the fuck off
Comment by Daniel — July 31, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
FYI Malik C., voodoo has nothing to do with Resident Evil. The zombies are genetic abominations, not magic…
Comment by Daniel — July 31, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
well not magic, little sleeping potions but you know what I mean!
Comment by Aaron — August 5, 2008 @ 10:04 am
RE5 being developed by Japanese does not mean that it cannot be racist. Japan has had its fair share of anti-black racism since the 1980’s from the former Prime-minister’s comments that African Americans were the cause of the inferior state of American education, to the fact that Japanese stores carry, lil black sambo and mammy dolls even to this day. Just run a Lexus-Nexus search on Japanese Racism, (filter out this current controversy) and you’ll read stories of ordinary African (Americans) on the streets of Japan being verbally abused because of their skin color.
Comment by The Reaper — August 6, 2008 @ 3:05 am
just shut up people, just shut up,its just a god damn video game.about zombies and monsters from hell and all that bull. you cretics and others dont know anything, if you play all the RE from 1 threw 4, then you’ll get it.
Comment by hob — August 6, 2008 @ 4:19 am
One thing I haven’t seen yet is the fact that if you have played re2 you have killed a black man in that as well. Not to mention Russians, Spaniards, and Icelanders (Or was it Greenland). Those were in other RE games although. So there is no argument here at all about anything. Just someone’s laziness, which sadly is shown is everyone’s daily lives.
By the way I know this is an old post. Sorry for bringing it back…
Comment by the bad mate — August 11, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
omg i cant wait for this game to be realesed its the best game ever idc if zombies are white or black i mean thats bullshit excuse to try and stop the best game ever and to just have white zombies would be the real racist thing because your saying that whites are the only race and the only people that deserve to be in such a great game like this one but there are also black people, the point of this whole thing was to make the game in africa and guess what… africans are black it would be way to racist to put white zombies in africa i mean duh…
Comment by ZeroVajra — August 13, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
this is so cool
ho makes this shit upXD
all resident evil fans
you remember resident evil outbreak
if i am not mistaken
i can play with 2 black players
a cop and a train conductor
killing white people
i never heart anything about that being racist
heres my opinion
you cant get into a fight with a diverent color why becouse thats racist to them you automatically hate black brown yellow:S
people just love attention
thats why racisme is so hot now a days
i respect the black i wil never call them a neger becouse
it was jussed in slavery so i wil never do that
they are right to fight against that but every fucking other complain about racisme is bullshit and it starting to piss me off
fuck off with your racisme where all humans all diverent
we are al the same respect eachother for 1ns dont atrackt stuppid attention
i know for a fact one day human kind wil extinct why becouse off bullshit like this you have like 70 80 90 years to live enjoy it try to help the world make it beter stop bitching
^^
if you have any coment on this email me if you wanne bitch just go talk to a tree
see ya and greets from the great netherlands
Comment by Cal — August 15, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
I agree, I think people are too sensitive about racism nowadays and thats why there are racists out there that think its so funny because of the reaction of others. Many black people have called me ‘honkey’ or ‘cracker’ and thought its funny so its not just white people. I think all races do it. Overall, racism is childish if it’s the true intent. RE5 (Being based in Africa) would make more sense to have black people. Anyone with any sort of brains could not let themselves fall for it and think that black people are vicious or infected or any shit like that. It’s over-sensitivity, thats what it is!
Comment by Gabriel — August 18, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
I am 110% agree with you, and you forgot to mentioned things about your point 2, the location. As a fanatic of zombie movies. Zombies was created by Black from Haiti and Africa based on Voodoo believes. In other words, Africa was the best spot for the last sequel of Resident evil 5. So i hope they don’t change anything about the plots or the story line. And heres an other thing there was black zombies in other resident evil! like in the Resident Evil 2 theres a Black cop at the Police Centre and he was pointng is gun on Leon face , was he RACIST? lol anyways thanks for Capcom to make some awsomes games and i hope that Resident evil 5 will blow fucking zombies ass!lol
Comment by Joe — August 19, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
Chris is sent to Africa or whatever to investigate the zombies, kill them, and possibly find a cure. Wouldn’t this be a benifit to the surrounding population, which would be a black majority. So he re-kills the ones that are already dead, and PROTECTS THE LIVING AFRICANS. So a white man (in the videogame of course) risks his own life to cure a disease which is infecting many africans. This is racist how???
Comment by Makarov — August 22, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
DUde, the reason why RE5 takes place on Africa results that in the original plot of the RE series the virus came from a brach of the ebola virus. Which was discovered in Africa, so the idea of the game was to transport the player to the origins of the RE zombie virus.
Comment by frodo bagins — August 27, 2008 @ 7:42 am
why they complaing when they kill there own race in grand theft auto and saints row. saints row 2 will be no different.
Comment by Rossident Evil :O — August 27, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
LOL. One of the best contraditions ever by her. Put in basic terms…:
Z0MG RE5 IS HAS A WHITY KILLING BLACK!!! RACIST!
Kill white people things. Thats so much better, coz i iz black…
Wtf? She thinks its okay for a black person to say “Kill white people” But white people kiling blacks. Omg, lets move to Mars…
Also; technically speaking. Its non-racist from Japan, as we all know, most Japs look yellow to me. NO OFFENCE
P.S Im one of teh biggest R.E Fans ever, seriously. So when people start chatting shit. They can basically fuck a goat and die
Looking forward to it coming ^^
Comment by Alan — August 29, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Ok well it it goes This personne who comented on ricst video game did not see the reasent update on the game yes there will be wight bad guys and stuff but your i AFrica woulditn be racist to make africa over runn by wight people!