have we developed a cure for stupid yet?

Congratulations writer of this stupid Alternet article! You just lost ALL your credibility as a serious journalist! While you may try to report on serious subjects people will now look upon with with increasing disdain as you shall now be "That one guy who wrote the idiotic article about racism!" Isn't that grand?!

When will you realize that gamers are the MAJORITY of citizens in the world now. Finding someone who doesn't play video games, even just casually once a week (or even just once a month) is nearly impossible now considering that that average age of a 'gamer' is 18-24 (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

To take a bold stance like this isn't making you a hero or a martyr, it's making an ASS of yourself for the sake of some heated race debate.

All of the Resident evil games are originally created by Japanese companies. White Supremacy is out of the question there, since I don't think Japan has a KKK.

If you want to talk about a serious issue I suggest addressing the increasing amount of both legal and illegal immigrants coming to this country and refusing the adapt to the culture. I work in retail, so every day I deal with all kinds of customers and the worst are the families that have one child who knows English and thus has to translate between me and the parent. Meanwhile, the parent is staring vacantly at me, having NO idea what I'm saying.

What I'm getting at is, you go the France, they speak French. You go to Italy, they speak Italian. In America, we shouldn't have to become a quadlingual country just because the immigrants we accept into our country don't want to learn a new language.

I wonder how an observation about somebody's race gets twisted into the hate of his race. The world doesn't always revolve around the history of slavery. The article writers also thinks everyone involved in the RE games are American and that they know how sensitive blacks are to slavery issues, yet they are not American developers. Doesn't this attitude itself smack of Western ethnocentrism?

If video games have taught us anything, it's that we are all equally vulnerable to be turned into zombies, no matter what race or creed we come from. That's the truth and I'm sticking to it :p

Just goes to show -- to be completely non-racist, the only race Zombies can be is white.



... no, wait... that doesn't sound right.

Genius, the Japanese, who aren't white, are training us all to kill non whites......wait a second that doesn't make sense!?!

Idiots, also why is it these morons can't tell the difference white Spaniards, (the zombies in RE4) from Spain, and Mexicans. Speaking Spanish DOES NOT mean that you are Mexican ffs!

Wow. Just.... wow. This article is a testament to the fact that humanity is royally fucked, and also that people living in North America are ridiculously uncultured idiots. Come on-- the only countries we know about here are our own. We could never actually think to learn about Japanese culture, or even European culture. Hell, we never desire to educate ourselves on any foreign culture. Instead, we just stereotype the hell out of everyone. Why? It's easier, and it makes the racist, gasoline-sniffing neocons currently dominating this continent happy.

Thanks a lot, you jerks. You've made me embarassed to live in this continent.

If I remember correctly the zombies in Resident Evil 4 spoke portuguese. The producer even said that he didn't want to insult the portuguese people because he "loved them" and he only chose the language because it sounded cool.

But the article assumes the game was made by racist white people depicting spaniards as zombies. How's that for prejudice?

And the first, second and third games had us shooting predominantly white Americans. Fat stereotypical slob cops, no less!

HORROR.

You set a game in Europe, then guess what; there are going to be Europeans in it. This is not rocket science. Nor is it racism.

Stereotyping nationalities is something that has been done in the movies a gazillion times and continues to be done, ESPECIALLY in cheesy action flicks where the criminals are usually accent-bearing Europeans. Yet again, games are treated as a special case for no reason at all.

i have to agree with you ashton

no one is getting klilled (pixels are merely dissapearing from the screen)

Warcraft 3 was an allegory about overcoming racism in the face of danger...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?

Not again....Just not again.....

Can anybody prove that there's been a rising hatred of Spaniards linked to the release of this game nearly 3 years ago?

because black people don't live in Africa.

also, Spaniards all talk like Jackie Chan, not like Antonio Banderas.

So wait, are they arguing that it's bigoted against African Americans, or against zombies?

*headdesk*

"Vitally Impaired"...snicker.
How about the circulatory disabled?

99% percent of the zombies in 1-3 were white. if i remember correctly, there was that one black zombie cop but thats the only one i can think of. if the game promotes a pro-white anti-minority agenda, why would they make the majority of the series with you killing white zombies and then suddenly jump-ship and do the opposite with 4 and 5?

@DavCube:

Actually, different dialects of Spanish have different accents. The dialect spoken in much of Spain (also known as Castilian, I believe) has a lisping quality on soft c and z sounds, whereas Mexican Spanish doesn't. For some reason, the Spaniards in the game are, in fact, speaking the Mexican dialect, which is something that confuses the hell out of me.

But yes, I agree that this whole argument is a giant load of crap.

"while 56% of all human characters in the games were white, only 22% of all human characters were African American"

A quick search of American racial demographics reveal that about 12% of the population is black. To what degree do they need to be over-represented in games, in order for that not to be taken as an indication of racism?

By the way, the same stats show that 68% of the population is white, making them under-represented in games. Is Mr. Lovato prepared to pick up his torch and decry this apparent "discrimination" against whites?

Mr. Lovato's use of these statistics at all is highly manipulative. On the one hand, depicting people of non-european background is racist (omg hispanics with hispanic accents!), and not representing them is also racist. Great.

"...most video games deny humanity to the non-white..."

Quite true. Latinos are not in Warcraft III. I just can't accept that they're humans, you know? If they were "human", wouldn't they be in Warcraft III?

Now then.. Killing zombies is Rascist... Riight...

So, wait. Game developers are supposed to overrepresent African-Americans, and put none of them in an antagonistic role? Why does this make sense?

At least the US Government have their priorities straight on this issue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoXgRtDysLY

@Amarkov

CJ has to be the only African-American i've ever.... wait.. Junior from Conflict: Vietnam.. Chris from Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction..

@jakethe8lf

Only Pres. Bush could do that....

Hispanics very often do have a poor portrayal in videogames, but that "author" is so far off base it's not even funny. Well, actually it is kind of funny what a dumbass he is.

First off, the enemies in RE4 did NOT have "stereotypical Mexican accents," they had Spanish accents. My BA is in Spanish and I'm familiar with many of the accents and the voice-over work in the game was actually pretty good at putting an Iberian accent on the Ganados. He actually sounds more ignorant by apparently thinking that Mexican is a language.

Secondly, he looks like an ignoramus because he's quoting Vice City (certainly NOT this year's most popular game since it came out in over 4 years ago), and he's taking the quote completely out of context. In the original context of the game, there's nothing racist about it. It's about two gangs and their violent rivalry, not about race.

I wish jackoffs like this guy would stop giving liberals like me a bad name. There actually are videogames with overt racism, there are people in videogame communities that are racists (remember when GTA:SA or Prey came out and the backlash at those main characters?), and there are people like the population of Jena, LA. Focus on those factors, and don't try to stir the pot on games that aren't racist.

The Spanish zombies have Mexican accents? From the folks I've meant, calling a Spaniard Mexican or vice versa is a good way to start I fight.

In addition, if he's concerned about racial representation, I present two of the most popular games today: Oblivion and World of Warcraft. In these, you can choose your human character's skin color, so you can play any "racial group" you desire. Fallout 3 will do the same, while the earlier Fallout series had racial diversity in the characters (including the black woman who was prejudiced against mutants).

If these bellyachers are really "concerned about underrepresentation of minorities," they can get off their lazy bums and make a game! That will never happen, of course, because they are the kind of people who always complain, but never take action.

This isn't racism, and the game isn't made by white people.

It's made by asians.

@ Whoever wrote the article:
You are the biggest fucking idiot alive. You should get off of Jesse Jackson's dick long enough to form your own opinion.

Also, Fuck the Jena Six. I said it.

You know i didn't think racism would come to this this fast. I don't think white gamers get mad every time a black character in GTA shoots a white person.
Why can people see that ITS THE 5TH GAME in the series, i think 5 games of shooting white zombies in the city would get boring. the creators are merely trying to mix it up a bit and go for different setting, instead of everything being dark and decaying it might look a little brighter, and hey some cities in Africa have some damn nice looking buildings. The point is the creators are just trying to think of new settings than the same old same old. Shooting black zombies has nothing to do with it. And wouldn't it be strange if they were shooting hordes of white zombies anyway?

So, pretty much DON'T THINK EVERYTHING IS RACIST!

OMG LETS ALL RUSH TO JUDGMENT!!!111111 VIDOE GAMES ARE RACEST AGAINST TEH UNDED!

"Players of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, this year's most popular video game"

Yes if we somehow managed to travel back to the year 2002. This guy really skimped on the research didin't he.

"rather than targeting immigrants for extermination as in Resident Evil and other games"

He makes it sound like you standing on Ellis Island with an uzi getting ready to mow down people as the get off the boat. I'm all for calling out racism were it actually exists but saying Warcraft 3 is racist, come on. Tell me does every single game need to have the exact demographics of the United States to be considered okay. Do you want to know why all the human units were white in Warcraft, because was probally just the easiest way to animate all of them. You act as if the Blizzard went in with the intent of saying that the only real humans are white people which is just sad.

@Quad9Damage
I didn't take it seriously at all: I read it aloud in a Stan Lee voice for the fun of it.

Also, Resident Evil Extinction is a mediocre at best movie.

And remember folks on the day that the dead walk the earth don't shoot black zombies for fear of the other survivors seeing you as a racist. I can see it now:

guy1 "ok we have to stick together if we want to live"
guy2 "great idea"
black zombie jumps out at guy1 and guy2 shoots em
guy1 "what the hell man?"
guy2 "huh? whats wrong?"
guy1 "that dude was black are you a racist?"
guy2 "a black ZOMBIE. I just saved your life"
guy1 "A BLACK zombie eh? Why couldn't it just be a zombie?"
guy2 "Are you frigging serious?"


Seriously WTH....how many zombies in videogaming and movie history have been white? Am I freaking out because of it?

"…Like many of the most popular games, including Kung Fu, Warcraft 3 and Shadow Warrior… most video games deny humanity to the non-white, especially Latinos."


Deny humanity? You mean like was the case for whites in Raccoon City in the three prior Resident Evils and its many many many spinoffs?

And what the fuck is this with Warcraft? That doesn't even take place on a world where there is A Europe or Africa. So I don't even see what their point is there. Unless they have a problem with the human man keeping the orc down. Whatever.

@ GP, Capcom recently confirmed Resident Evil 5 to be set in Haiti, the origin of the zombie mythos. Not that that will take any wind out of critics' sails.

I have to wonder: what if RE5 was set in Haiti and you killed a bunch of white people? I have a feeling most anti-racist groups would say something like the game is 'misrepresenting the country' or 'is making it seem white people rule the world' or somesuch nonsense.

Either way they'll find some way to spin their racist bullshit into things.

"When will you realize that gamers are the MAJORITY of citizens in the world now."

I agree with your argument, but this statement is way off. I'm fairly certain gamers are still a minority within the six billion people of the world. :P

This game was made in Japan! Ever hear of a japanese white supemacist? I haven't! And just because soemone speaks spanish does not mean they are automatically mexican you ignorant bigot!!! And why the hell not Haiti? That's where zombies come from. Good luck making a game set in Haiti without black people. The only way this game is racist is in your own twisted imagination Roberto Lovato. Keep on spinning this.

@Austin Lewis

Are you talking about once or twice or a significant number of times?

wait......did the Author of this really invoke Kung Fu, as in, the 80's nes and arcade hit where your walked left in the first stage, kicking things in the head until you reached the end, and then for the second stage they changed it up, and you walked right, while kicking things in the head like so much Chuck Norris

I'm sorry but you lose all validity when you bring up games where nearly everybody has the same skin tone due to the fact that there are only maybe 12 colors present in the game

In all the Resident Evils you kill zombies. If you're killing zombies in africa it would make sense for the majority of them to be black plain and simple. Theres nothing rascist about it. As with resident evil 4 it makes sense for the zombies to be spanish since you are in spain. If I recall correctly in resident evil 0-3 most zombies were white so how can the series be perpetuating dangerous depictions of non-whites?

@VicoN

I think your a little confuse on what we are trying to say. We are trying to point out that if a game is racist for killing Africans and Spanards, then games were you only kill whites must also be racist for the same reasons.

People like Lovato really should learn how to do some research, because if he did in this case he would know that most of the games in the series has you fighting zombie horde made up of whites.

Oh, and if the thing in the game is trying to kill me, I'm going to shoot it in the face regardless of it's skin color.

Alright I think it's probably appropriate to point out that Spaniards are white, they weren't Mexicans they were from the European country of Spain, they aren't "Hispanic" or "Latino" or "Latin American" they are SPANISH. A lot of Americans seem to be under the impression that all Spanish speaking peoples are from North and South America and forget the language was actually named after a Western European nation comprising of a bunch of white people.

That being said, I feel we can agree that racial minorities are underrepresented in video games (although I would like to see similar statistics compiled for movies because while it's probably not as bad especially with movies made in the past couple decades it's still probably pretty similar). And that at the very least it would definitely not hurt the video game industry to have more nonwhite main protagonists.

Finally, to anyone who wants to jump on a partisan rant and say "look at these stupid liberals and how they hate video games" shut up, that's not the issue, there's equal trashing of video games on both sides if anything it's an issue of different generations being mistrustful of the new entertainment medium, NOT POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES.

@Justin

"become characters in the virtual world who mouth such statements as “I hate these Haitians!,”and “Stinking nest of Haitians, we gonna kill ‘em all!”

It’s just not true. It was said by other characters in the game."

I was looking for someone to bring that up. IIRC, it was the Cubans that were hating on the Haitians.

On the subject of RE4, I found that Capcom has studios in Tokyo, Osaka, California, England, Germany, and Hong Kong. Now, judging from the release dates, it seems more likely that it was produced in California. It was released in the US a couple weeks ahead of Japan. Which might explain the Mexican accents.

Fish

Aw jeez not this shit again -_- .

"56% of all human characters in the games were white, only 22% of all human characters were African American and only 2% were Latino…"

And the majority of human characters in games get killed, in FPS by you. So lets think this through, for every 1 latino shot down, 11 black people that get depicted being killed, 28 white people get gunned down.

Now, Resident Evil 4 is racist for giving people that 1 latino person to shoot, while all the other games out there give you 28 white people to shoot. And Resident Evil 5 is racist, because for every 11 of those you shoot down, another game series is having you shoot 28 white people.

But those games where you gun down the 28 white people is racist, because the human characters are white. So we need to make a game, where... what. Lets see... the player controls 11 black people, 1 latino person, and every screen gun down 28 white people? No wait, then there are still more white people then black and latino people.

You cannot shoot at white people, cause that makes white humans the majority, and you cannot shoot black people, cause that is racist, and you cannot shoot latino cause that is racist. So uh... help?

PS: I realize this is abusing the statics they give, then again, if they want to manipulate statics, why can't I?

what spainards can be found in spain??!!!

We know the difference between video games and the real world, nothing is wrong.

Just like we understand the difference between movies and the real world. It's the same exact thing. What happens in the video games and what happens in the movies =/= what we do in reality (especially when games ARE NOT being racist in the first place. If ignorant people took time to read story lines instead of crying wolf at the first sign of what could be a racist picture than none of this would be happening).

Gamers are not stupid. Just because we are a relatively young form of entertainment compared to others doesn't mean anybody can beat us down when things like movies get the thumbs up for the exact same non racist things.

Actually, if you take all the games into account, almost all of the zombies are white, so if this one game is filled with black people, you're getting close to killing pretty much the % average of zombies over the course of the series as exist in the US.

Just a thought. Having no black zombies at all would be racist.

Of course San Andreas wasn't mentioned in this article. Or Vice City stories.

Both star Black main characters. Cool ones at that!

I was just thinking; Do these people take the people from ALL Japanese games and call them "white"? Is Cloud Strife white?

I was just thinking about this; half the characters in video games are of asian descent. Capcom, after all, is run by a bunch of Japenese folks.

So, I wonder how people from Japanese video games are determined to be of a certain race?

I mean, are Asians automatically 'white' to these people when they aren't mispronouncing their Ls and Rs?

RE4, it was set in spain, the ganados logicly would speak spanish, as for stereotypical accents, ive studied spanish for going on 3 years now, it sounds authentic to me, even so, its just a game

RE5 was confirmed to be located in haiti (yes thats probably spelled wrong) where i believe those of a dark skin are common, its called being true to the setting. If it were in america, it'd probably have more white people, but its not.

"We’ve been tracking this (video game racism) for some time and we saw how effective games are for getting someone into the skin of someone experiencing something"

So much talk for so little proof of research.

Hey people, there is a reason why they teach you the scientific method in grade school...

I think Resident Evil IS racist. Zombies are people too.

I'm fighting for zombie rights for years now.

Oh, and another post back in http://gamepolitics.com/2007/09/21/game-industry-lobby-goes-into-overdri...
oy. IF YOU DARE.

Im black and i dont see the game as racist at all.No one complained when the character killied white zombies or spainards.

I am a liberal and i am embarrased over these idiots... apology on behalf of my political affiliation :palm-to-face:

Shame on all of you! When will zombies become equals to living beings? The Constitution doesn't not state that the unliving have equal rights, just people of race, ethnic background, gender, etc.

I for one will not stand for this undead racism.

I will say the Resident Evil 5 trailer came off as somewhat disturbing even if that was not the intent, and I defended those who saw it as such. This is a bit rediculous though mostly because the person seems to be confusing "Spaniard" and "Hispanic/Latino" as being one in the same. Also can someone PLEASE explain the Warcraft 3 thing because i did not get that one bit.

Hey, anyone know why you don't see many asians talking about people being racist towards them?

as much as i hate to give these degenerates attention, this got to be posted by someone since it depicts a clear image of what a REAL racism filled game is, and as a fair warning, open the link i am posting below at your own risk and be prepared to see the only group of people that can actually stand a fighting chance against jack thompson when it comes to textbook idiocy. with that said,

http://www.nukeisrael.com/zognightmare.htm

Spanish people are white.

I still want to know what they'd think of there were a bunch of white zombies running around in the middle of Africa.

Idiots need to face the fact - zombies will look like the ethnicity of their origin, unless they made the zombification agent turn them all white, at which point we'd have the same people making different complaints about racial homoginization, or something else just as stupid.

Deconstructionist, hyper-sensitive, race baiting dumbasses should be out-right ignored. How do you deal with morons who cry racism at every term? You ignore them outright. Let them bitch and cry among each other until they move on to the next topic.

Well, oy. It's true that the majority of games out there have a white guy for a main characters. Now I didn't say all. This is a cliche, like the "perfect girl" I hope will go away, oy. I also hope to contribute to the elimination of it.

Warcraft 3 was supposed to me medieval themed, and there were mostly only whites in the area and time period that was used (with orcs, elves, and undead added)

i have to say, though, that the RE series does seem to make a single race of people into zombies for one game

@grombar
Ah ha, I thought his reference to both Warcraft III and Shadow Warrior sounded strangely familar.

Heh, I suppose something like this was inevitable. Remember when the RE5 stink first hit this site, and tons of people were posting things like "Why didn't people complain about RE4 and call it racist?" Well, it's happened now.

Alex: No racism in games is a bit strong of a statement, don't you think? I'd say less than in society in general, though.

Jesse Jackson takes to the airwaves in 3... 2... 1...

has everyone in this planet gone crazy????!?!?!

@ Thomas

I saw that one too. I was thrilled with the reaction, but rather disappointed with where they went with it.

Of all things, they argued that the company was trying to sell the 'thrill' of killing poor people. I didn't quite get that, but maybe that's just me.

Essentially its obvious they saw poor black people and decided it was racist... what puzzles me especially is they talk about Mexicans in RE4 and African Americans in RE5.. now, never played either and probably never will due to not having systems for them.. but RE4 is in Spain, and 5 somewhere in Africa.. honestly, these people are being more racist than the RE games... unable to look beyond America and its immediate neighbors.

Its the thrill of killing zombies, not poor people... with an additional emotional reaction at times, I would hope.. I remember other RE games have had some pretty emotional plot elements at times.

...!? What the hell!? "With people like this it's no wonder we don't bother curing cancer..."

The only racism I recall in Warcraft III was the orcs being treated horribly by the humans... Then again, I always liked the Scourge. There are no races in the scourge, just a hate of the living. Which seems reasonable enough given their post-mortem state.

Oh, and the demons. Maybe he's writing about how everyone in warcraft were mean to those poor innocent demons that just wanted to envelope every world in flames.

"Stereotypically Mexican accents?" Does he mean when the Ganados are speaking Spanish? CASTILLAN Spanish? Or maybe he means Salazar and Luis, the former being an albino little person who dresses like an 18th-century nobleman (not exactly playing to Mexican stereotype, there), and the latter being a good guy who helps the player through dangerous situations.

Both of them spoke with fakey accents, but speaking for myself as a Spanish American, I wasn't offended. Well, maybe slightly, but I had zombies to kill and I couldn't let it bother me. Or maybe - JUST MAYBE - he hasn't played the game EVEN A LITTLE and doesn't know what he's talking about.

Oh, and just to clear up one of his central misconceptions: Spaniards are white Europeans, and not really the target of much in the way of racial hatred Stateside. Just, y'know, putting that out there.

Man, fuck that Roberto Lovato guy. Looking over his past stories, he's clearly a one-issue writer (that issue being "everyone's out to get Latinos") who doesn't feel it's important to research an issue before writing about it (seriously, Kung Fu? A 22-year-old NES game? Really?)

Now, if he wants to complain about Total Overdose or Chili Con Carnage, I'd say he has a fair point, as you can't get much more blatantly stereotypical than that. But I have a feeling he was just asked to write a movie review, and thought, "Hmm, how can I tie this into my love of writing about perceived racism against Latinos?" And lo and behold, the shining light of half-assed pseudojournalism reminded him of something he'd once read about Resident Evil once.

How he managed to find such a weird, decades-spanning pastiche of games to hold up as "popular" while missing the most obvious ones is beyond me, but he's clearly just another writer with an agenda who doesn't know shit about games. Next.

Oh yeah vice city is soooooooo much more popular than Halo 3 will ever be.

In my previous comment, mentally replace "Bill Gates" with "Rupert Murdoch".

I think it works better that way.

Did they forget the part where this game isn't made by white people?

I'm just waiting for the cries of horror about the "racism" in the Total War series...

Why do people play the racist card so frequently? Sometimes its justified, such as the Jena 6. But Resident Evil, Mike Vick.... Sorry dudes Resident Evil is not a racist series. I really don't see any valid point that leads to me determining Resident Evil is racist.

Perhaps, I'm just spit-balling here, a few of us should take a moment or two to think before we post. IMO nothing hurts your credibility more than racist comments.

Race card burners use non issues and false truths to trump logic, this is more of the same from the "ZOMG WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE WHITE MEN" crowd.


Look at the core of this issue there are lil to no games that have bigoted lead charatcers the closest I can think of is Call of jaurez and I see no one screaming abotu the mad bible thumping gun slinger shooting the poor mexican outlaws *rolls eyes*
my god people there is a line still thats not crossed you cant cross it just because the amount of of real hatred is going underground...

Austin Lewis
I dunno its a bunch of juvinails acting poorly what should have happened is a few week suspension for ALL of them along with 300 hour community service, the one that was hurt is not dead or maimed or crippled even he should serve community service once he heals up just to send a strong message this stupidity will not be toalerted but no we have 2 race card burners going down their and blaming the lack of "black power" or the limited black population and demanding that thos that did wrong did nothing at all, politics and blind logic thumping...gotta love it....

@Zippy
Actually, what happened to the victim of the attack of the Jena Six was that he was blind in one eye for a time of 3 weeks, and had a concussion.

He was knocked to the ground where he was kicked and stomped.

And Jesse Jackson went down there to say "If it was a white man, he'd a never served a minute of Jail Time, Lordy no!". What a self righteous ass.

Never mind, I just looked them up.

Another bunch of wanna-be Black Panthers. Still, attempted murder was justified.

If you kick someone in the Kindney area, you can kill them.

By the way, where is Jena anyway?

@BearDogg-X

This whole arguement has become clear to me.

@Bear Dogg X

Actually, it wasn't a 'white only party', as there were blacks in attendance.

It was an INVITE only party.

The Jena Six tried to gate crash, and were turned away by the woman at the door. When they wouldn't leave, a group of about five white males in line behind them cut in front of them, instigating a fight which the six black males lost. As the six black males were leaving, they instigated another fight, where they thought it would be 1 on 6 (the individual they assaulted was the one whom they would later hospitalize).

The bottle was actually broken over the head of a WHITE student, something a lot of reports got wrong. The individual charged with battery was one of the people watching the door.

Of all the people I know in the areas surrounding Jena, or the people I know in it, no one confirms this statement:

Days later, a young white man said to have been among the attackers at the party was accused of threatening the victim and two other black students with a sawed-off shotgun. They overpowered him and took the gun to police, who arrested them for stealing it.

I believe this part was made up, as nothing I've found and no one I talked to has heard of it except from this article.

By the way, Jarvis DeBerry, who penned that article, has had his lips on Jackson's ass for a good long time. Read the below quote in response to Katrina

"The mayor of New Orleans is black. Therefore, Peterson blames him. But so pursed are his lips from all the butt kissing, they won't let criticism of a white official pass through. "

Let me give a quick synopsis of why New Orleans suffered in Katrina: The Mayor and Governor wanted to be heroes. They thought that their system would move all the people out of the city, and even after it failed to, waited 3 days before declaring Martial Law and allowing FEMA and the US Military to help them. Then they turned around and blamed it on Bush and FEMA, instead of the Mayor and Governor.

Jarvis DeBerry is about as slanted as they come.

Entire article mentioned is here:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/deberry/index.ssf?/base/News/11530346651649...

Bear Dogg my good man, you must consider the source.

To make my earlier statement a little clearer about the article, its about "Self Hatred won't fix the levees". In it, he insults, among other people, the Army Corps of Engineers who had to fix the damaged levees which the STATE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR.

It's a combination of Bollocks, misinformation, and a clusterfuck communication-wise.

Wow and just when I thought political correctness couldn't get any worse. I find it funny how they all stood quiet a few years ago when Soldier of Fortune had some missions that took place in Africa where you had to kill African soldiers that were yes black. This is so so unbelivably stupid, I don't even know why we are talking about this. Training for a race war? Haha do thes idiots even know that a racist organization released a game called "Ethnic Cleansing" a few years ago? Did they condemn that? Probably not. Also Capcom is a japanese company, have you ever heard of a Japanese white supremacist? haha that's an oxymoron.

Oh great, I thought this crap was over with. I guess now anyone who is white, plays video games where not all the bad guys are white then they are being trained as racist white supremest shock troops. So does that mean any hispanic person who played RE4 hates their own people and should be looked at as a traitor? Or how about any black people who play RE5? Does that mean they are traitors because they are shooting their own people? Anyone who thinks these games are racist are probably about as smart as a box of rocks, they probably believe all the crap that comes out of Al Sharpton's mouth as well.

Another thing? How can this train white people to become racist bigots? Last time I checked I was shooting zombies/parasite infected cult members. I don't see any of those around in the real world? And why would a company who is in Japan want to train whites to hate? Just more morons trying to instigate a race war where the "Evil white man" is trying to kill the minorities.

@Jay13x

i thought wesker was a blonde haired, yellow eyed white guy.

@Jay
I heard stories from friends in the police force thereabouts and then I heard a bit more from a few who live thereabouts.

@adaptor

more like hows that for stupid.

@ZippyDSMlee

i know. i was saying the whole idea that resident evil has racist undertones is stupid in general.

@ Austin Lewis

While everyone knows that Sharpton and Jackson are only involved for the publicity, the so-called "ass-kisser" DeBerry is only reporting the same things that's been reported by the mainstream media since May:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-elf2u1mmay20,1,330116...

The Jena case didn't start making national news until May, mainly because the mainstream media is only interested now in reporting on self-imploding no-talent "celebrities" like Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-jena_witt.1jun29,1,18...

There were inconsistencies in the testimony of prosecution witnesses. Some said they saw Bell strike the victim in the face during a melee outside the gym, others said Bell struck the victim in the back, while still others said they were not sure Bell was involved.

Other interesting stuff in this article(which I found though another forum): http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/jena-j31.shtml

Bell was legally represented by a court-appointed public defender, Blane Williams, who is black. Williams repeatedly pressured Bell to plead guilty, but Bell refused. During jury selection, Williams did not challenge a single juror from the all-white jury pool. The LaSalle Parish clerk defended the all-white jury pool on the basis that it had been selected by a computer. The final jury included two friends of the district attorney, as well as several friends and one relative of prosecution witnesses. The judge in the case was also white.

Defense attorney Williams openly sided with the prosecution. He called no witnesses, not even a high school coach who had previously written a statement testifying that Bell had not, in fact, struck Barker. The prosecution called 16 witnesses, mostly white high school students. Remarkably, Williams commented to a local paper, Alexandria Town Talk, “I don’t believe race is an issue in this trial. I think I have a fair and impartial jury.”

Hmm, looks like Bell never got a fair trial.

Looks like Mr. Lovato's done a lot more racist-related works than just the RE article he sent to AlterNet:

http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/roberto_lovato

Looks like his other works are just as inflammatory too.

# Samsoneffect Says:
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:28 am

So wait, are they arguing that it’s bigoted against African Americans, or against zombies?

*headdesk*


Lol, it's Africa. I'm pretty sure there aren't many African Americans

Know whats funny about the "Spaniard and Black hating" resident evil series? the first 3 games were basically nothing but white zombies being killed by white men and women. So what, now RE is bad because we decided not to keep the game centered in US? And honestly, its a F***ing game, get over it. And theres no human badguys in warcraft unless your horde, and even then its not good v evil, its just us v them.

I just visited Lovato's post over at AlterNet. Man, even their readers were insulted by the article's bogus presumptions.

Serves him right for hack journalism like this.

I have to say that there's something sort of funny about this. In an article about the perceived racist subtext of a line of videogames, the example cited is one where the victims/unwilling antagonists are (apparently somewhat well-voiced) white Spaniards. And yet the article carries with it the subtext of "They talk funny! That game must be about killing Mexicans! So racist..."

Although I don't honestly think there's more at work in that article than sloppiness. But I could just see an overreacting article of the same ilk posted regarding this article itself.

I'm surprised more action/horror games aren't set Africa what with the warlords, blood diamonds, ethnic cleansing, and general atrocities happening.

22% black protagonists? That is higher population percentage than in American today, so blacks are pretty well represented (Overrepresented, in fact). Not too many games with Latino characters though. Maybe if we make the zombies Latino's and the protagonist Black we would be hitting all the appropriate population markers. Oh, but wait, that would be highlighting the friction between the Black and Latino communities. My bad.

@Zombie Moogle
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Do you dance, or just sort of shuffle around?

I have an idea. Why not have all first person shooters (FPS) take place in Utah, Vermont, or my home state of Maine. These states are mostly white. Will that make the games training prgrams for Yakuzas, South AMerican drug cartels, Black Panthers and Al-Qaeda?

It's kind of like the fulsome Gena 6 case. A group of black people mercilessly attack a lone white guy. Black people just never fight fair. Apparently the ant racist crowd that fulminate at anyone who isn't the least bit PC don't know that slavery was a global free for all. Blacks selling Blacks, Muslims from the barbary states of Northern Africa, Barbary Wars, Whites on whites, Russians and Chinese; you get the picture. Whites died trying to save the blacks, Underground Railroad. Of course this game will be fodder for the ostentatious Al Sharptongue.

Honestly this is stupid. GTA maybe. but whoever did this research did not play any and I mean ANY resident evil games before RE4. all characters that wer zombies WERE MOSTLY WHITE. IF NOT ALL OF THEM. Resident evil 0, 1, 2, 3, dead aim, and now umbrella chronicles is white people fighting white zombies. DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

It was offensive, if you don't know why then you need to open your eyes to the world. How about you go and show the resident evil trailer to a black person from the civil rights era and maybe you will understand the complex subject of race in America.

I didn't see anybody complaining when we were killing other whites in the first RE games..

What do you have to say to that, idiots in this group?

whats the big deal with with this whole racial issue? they are zombies. spaniards and african villigers yes but zombies.but in all the last resident evil video games they were all white zombies ok. white zombies and monsters. see y r just the black people makin a racial issue out of this. you dont see the mexican people making a big racial issue out of this do u? y cant you jus drop the racial issue and accept that its a VIDEO GAME.

Then people is surprised that we are "racist" lol like u wouldnt be "racist" if your people was being slandered and discredited by ignorant people.

I forgot to say that in Resident Evil 4 it seems that Spain is in the 18th Century... It's a rural village, but any rural village in Spain looks as it.

Surely it does come down to what message resi 5 is sending out. I'm white. I love video games. I love survival horror games!!! I don't think the 'don't play it if it offends you' tag works. How's about, if it has the potential to be massively and culturally offensive the DON'T make it tag!!!

You don't need a brain to work out that combining the element of a flag waving all american action hero blowing a horde of black local mob's away with a shotgun is gonna sit very uncomfortably in a lot of peoples minds. YES we need to recognise video games rights to fantasy and even pushing the envelopes of what's considered as art. But do the people of South Africa need this game? I'm all for the idea that we aren't ruled by stupid politcal correctness, but that doesn't mean you have to throw common sense out the window too. We live in dangerous territory if we can't even ask wether something is a sensible idea. I'm not some conservative polititcian... but on issues like this i do feel strongly. i love films, i'm passionate about them but equally i think the 'saw' franchise should never have been made. When oh when will someone with some guts turn round and say... you know guys, maybe this world full of hatred and death and racism and tribal killings doesn't actually need this game? Instead of some feeble 'free speech' bullshit that actually merely fans the enthusiasm of a lot of sick minds to create 'whatever they want'??

Common sense is the only thing Capcom lack.

Hi, my name is Brett, and I am a nineteen-year-old male from Louisiana. I have a high-school diploma, and some college experience. All my life, I was a hardcore gamer with a “competitive nature” towards all games. I have always held strong opinions of games I played, yet was never able to find someone who not only wanted to listen, but wanted to make the change, thus creating a more efficient and enjoyable game. I come to you to ask simply for some information on how to become a game-tester, as well as assist me in gaining a game-tester career. I will, in the near future, apply to a college to seek out a degree in Game Design. I have found some glitches, as well as physical (graphic flaws), and I would like to share with you. My preference of game is first-person shooter, and I love not only the game play, but the general vibe, and tone of the game. I currently own a PS2 gaming console, and have played on PS3s as well as the XBOX 360. Though I have no degree at this point-in-time, I will within a few years. In the meantime, I’d greatly appreciate a chance to become a freelance game tester. I AM WILLING TO WORK FOR FREE, but would like to turn this opportunity into a full-time job. This is a really huge chance for me to see if I want to further my career in the Gaming Industry. Lastly, the only reason that I decided to write an E-mail, is because it is extremely difficult to find any legit sources online. I play games for a good 6-8 hours a day, and have an eye for things in video games. I am capable of filing easy to read reports, yet still will great detail.
First, I would like to discuss the older, yet still amazing, Resident Evil 4. The first problem I saw with the game was a problem with the game’s graphics. This error was found while riding the lift, prior to the knife fight with Krauser. If one were to glance up at the bricks to the upper-right of the screen, there would be a slight jolting movement of the bricks on the wall. I have yet to find out what caused this effect, but am leaning towards something having to do with an overload of the amount of detail on the screen all at once. It didn’t make the game really undesirable, or unplayable, though it was just a small problem, I feel that I shouldn’t exclude it. I am sure you’ve heard about this one before, but the next one was more of a problem than that.
Next, I would like to bring to your attention a second gaming flaw I found. I have a picture I took of it on my cell phone if you’d like to verify this information. This time, it was a glitch. Later in the game, when, ‘Helicopter Mike’ comes to your aid, there was a glitch I found. Though I can’t say for sure how I did it, I’m sure it was a game glitch. Sometime after defeating the machine gun guy, wielding a Gatlin gun, there is a switch that you must hit to enter and electronic shutter, thus gaining access to the next part of the game. It is in this section of the game that the glitch appeared. When Leon defeats all the gunners, infected drones, exc. kill the second Gatlin gun man, knock down the gate, and hit the switch on the second level to the right. As enemies begin to swarm again, you will have to eventually work your way to the next switch to the far left. That is of course facing the doors blocking your path. After hitting the next switch, make your way back to the ladder you used prior to that. An enemy will, if timed correctly, just be climbing the ladder. It is at this point that I pressed start for something, and un-paused the game only to find myself having fallen into this white void, yet able to see the sky above and the helicopter. My only conclusion is that at some point, when I pressed pause, I must’ve been in the crouched position ready to leap from the second level back to the first.
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