So I just want to make sure I have this right.  A movie is filmed about raising the flag at Iwo Jima, no African-Americans are included, so it's racist.  A company doesn't hire a minority because there's a more qualified applicant who happens to be a white male, so it's racist.  Creating a video game set in a city that prides itself on its high percentage of African-Americans, and including in that video game African-Americans both in the main characters and in the thousands of walk-on characters?  Yeah, that's racist too.

Can someone please explain this to me?  Is there some genetic benefit tied to skin tone that renders African-Americans impervious to the virus that created the thousands of screaming horde infected?  For that matter, was Louis the only African-American to be found in the city where the original four survivors did battle?*  Why isn't anyone crying racism over the original game?  And dammit, where are the Asians and Hispanics?!

(doubleplusundead) This isn't the first time some media tool threw a bitchfit because some developer had the audacity to include black zombies in a video game set in a location with a large black population, BTW.

_{*I've since noticed in a comment at the linked post that apparently there are African-American infected in the original game.  Either that means I don't really notice race on video games, or I'm a racist for looking right through them.  Probably the latter.}

Posted by: Alice H at 10:22 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 248 words, total size 2 kb.