Obama to Blame for Resident Evil 5 Racism Row?

It was my nigerian friend (I have lots of black friends!) that told me the story behind the slavery.

I am not racist, I am asian, my gf is white, my friends are all of mixed race and religions.

Also Africa as said is a continent you have white people in Africa too, south africa for example, what about Egypt thats brown people.

Sick and tired of the minority of black people being to oversensitive and kicking up a fuss for the sake of it, and equally at the minority of white people, to quick to throw the term "Race Card" about when ever they're to ignorant to see some one else POV. The fact is they're both as bad as each other!

Im just thankfull that regardless of skin colour there are the rest of us that have that lil thing called COMMON SENSE, to realise this is a non-starter, should never ever have been an issue.

Africa= is a black continent afterall, therefore you would expect there be black zombies. FACT end of. Its not racist its a geograhical fact!

Thank you once again common sense prevails!

dude if its a nonstarter why are you all starting into it?



then why does the hero have to have bin dropped in from the USofA and be white then? Surely in a black continent there's black heroes as well. yeah I know its RE and next one in the series but ffs its still white dude comes to the rescue of dem pow black boys in the end.

Yeah! These people having opinions that are not COMMON SENSE (which I believe when translated refers to "OPINIONS THAT ARE NOT MINE!") F**k 'em all! It's time we all thought the same damn thing... like zombies do!



Yeah! Video games are about FACT! why won't people get this into their heads! It's a geographical fact that Africa is black (except for the beige and tan bits at the top, and the bits of white at the bottom!) It's also a fact that zombies did take over the factual country of Kijuju! Why oh why oh why do people not start a factual campaign for COMMON SENSE aid to Kijuju... we could export some FACT and COMMON SENSE and SMUGGNESS to that suffering country. It is also a FACT and COMMON SENSE that you cant run and shoot!

Whats with that? Cant run and shoot! Where is the COMMON SENSE there?

Very valid point, but its a game! And how many times do we see this scenerio in films? its no different its always the USA that save the day for some reason? Never in a million years do i beleive they consciously intented to seem patroninsing but the more i think about it i can see why people would feel this way. But the point is your not supposed to think about it! it was never intended to provoke these issues, maybe they were a bit naive when the created this game but certainly not malicous.

i think he may have been trying to say that the trading of slaves had already been going on for thousands of years in africa before the europeans turned up. There was trade between east and west africa, to the muslim north, and from the east to arabia and india. When the portugese turned up they just had more money to spend then the african empires like mali etc. And so the atlantic slave trade started, most slaves went to brazil.
In fact slavery was only made illegal in niger in 2003 and 2007 in mauritania.

I also don't think that this game is racist.
African zombies are bound to be black cos the vast majority of africans are black, or least dark skinned, north africans are technically arabic.

OK, so let me get this right, if I were to shoot you repeatedly in the face with a 9mm semi-automatic weapon (and don't think for one second I haven't thought about it, at length, and in detail), the only person we could blame, and the only people your family would have any logical grounds for hating would be the guy who sold me the gun?

Sounds fair enough.

OK, are you saying you are a Zombie or a Vampire?

Or maybe a Zompire?

This post has already been hit by the artillery and shot down. If feel the Obama thing is the newspapers fishing for reasoning, when RE5 thing predates that.

Speaking as a black person, I wasn't offended at all by RE5, infact I'm loving the game, and respect Capcom for setting the game in Africa, There's many other locations they could have chosen. That MT Framework engine is amazing with the characters.

RE5 does have black characters that are not infected, working with you, besides Sheva, so again those hero objection are shot down. As for playable black characters, have you forgotten RE Outbreak, where you can play black security guard Mark Wilkins. And in RE5 multiplayer, you can play as Sheva, everyone is covered and we all win. Lastly, don't forget those who fell in the line of duty against Umbrella, Kenneth J Sullivan and Marvin Branagh (both black). There were a few hispanic characters over the series too, who we also got to play, so are Capcom still racist?

I'm gonna go to bat big time, for Capcom here, because as far as developers go, Capcom have the largest selection of black game characters in the games industry, IMO, so they are far from racist. I also believe Capcom were looking at the story and setting for this game, as fitting into part of the series, not because of any real world politics, while many might think so. In a similar way to MGS, use gamers and non gamers will draw our own stable and warped conclusions alike.

As for the real world of slavery, violence and racism, all creeds and colours are guilty of this, some against people of the same colour too. For black on black, we need look no further than Rwanda and Darfur (and in some cases, around the U.K). For white on white take a look are eastern europe (white slavery and war). Even places like Brazil has a thing about skin colour, and a lot of them are black. This cycle has been going on for ages and no one is exempt. in a similar way, the Viruses in the story show that no one is exempt or special, when it comes to misunderstandings and disagreements, death and any darker corners of humanity, etc.

The scene someone else mentions about the white lass being dragged away, are again seeing what they want to see. If you dig closer and play the game (always the best way to judge), you'll see that she's actually dragged away by another white villager, where she's then infected by him and other villagers of varying colour. You were wrong and its okay to be wrong so long as you acknowledge it, so objectors, take a breath now and rest easy.

So funny really, that Far Cry 2, also set in Africa hasn't had any problems whatsoever. Add 50 Cent also going under all radars, where he's in a middle eastern setting shouting at middle eastern enemies. Go figure. I care not, but many will see demons where there are none.

Guess they'd better call the Spanish Inquisition, to host the RE5 trial....lol. How ironic that would be.

Outstanding work on the game Capcom. Thanks.

Are there any black people that think this game is racist? Or is it a case of the typical insecure white PC brigade jumping in to defend the "offended"?

BTW Excellent post Joji, one of the most sensible posts I've read on here.

Applause.

Thanks Joji.

Cheers

Tim

Applause.

Thanks Joji.

Cheers

Tim

No problem. Tim.

Hope everyone can chill and enjoy the game now.