Resident Evil 5 Controversy
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The Resident Evil 5 controversy will not stop the game,from being released on Friday March 13, 2009.In Resident Evil 5 which takes place in Haiti,Caucasian men are seen killing black people that are zombie like.There was an out cry of racism but Resident Evil 5’s producer Jun Takeuchi said at the E3 ’08–Microsoft’s Press Briefing earlier today that all will go as planned.Your Black Writers,Tolu Olorunda wrote:
What I witnessed [in the RE5 trailer] was nerve-wrecking, painful, mind-numbing and heart-racing… It wasted no time in capitalizing upon the long history of blatant depictions of Africans as savages and helpless imbeciles. The trailer featured a Caucasian male mutilating African villages, along with Africans. With the not-so ancient history of colonialism and neo-colonialism in Africa, the issue of racial insensitivity and indifference must be brought to the centerfold…
Olorunda added:
The Video Game industry is one which has profited immensely from the casualty of black on black hostility. Notable products of its faculty include, “50 Cent: Bulletproof,” “Def Jam: Icon” and “Grand Theft Auto.” This $10 billion market owes the majority of its inspiration to the tragic decisions of young black and brown teenagers.A 2005 survey suggests that Blacks constitute 2% of the demographic makeup of Game Developers, with Latinos making 2.5%. How ironic is it, that this reality does very little to punctuate the disproportionate consumption of video game products by Black and Brown teenagers…
You can watch the trailer of Resident Evil 5 after the jump.
deo | Nov 9, 2008 | Reply
Okay, first of all I’m black. and I ‘ve played all the Resident Evil games i think its stupid that people are only looking at the race of resident evil 5 and not 0,1,2,3 and 4 Which had whites and hispanics. this is not a racist game at all. The people who wrote need to to do research for the right to learn that the haitans are the one who created the concept of zombies based off a true life experience of some guy. so black people are the original Zombies. haha. Yeah they need to get the hell over it.
ccr fan | Jan 5, 2009 | Reply
People are looking at this way too deeply. The game takes place in Africa. The locals are African. The locals turn into zombies and therefore the zombies are African. It’s the same thing with the Spanish zombies in Resident Evil 4.
mark | Apr 23, 2009 | Reply
first of all, im black, and i dont think the game is racist. the game is set in africa so of course the people there are going to be black. i know racism when i see it ( kkk members burned a cross in my front yard when i was 5) and this is not racism.
Addi | Jun 1, 2009 | Reply
I think that people are focusing to much on the fact that the zombies are African in this game, while forgetting that they are zombies. When you see a zombie, shoot him, no matter what color he is. I’m white, and i am sure everyone , including black people who played the earlier Resident Evil, that you didn’t notice you were shooting white people, you were just shooting zombies.
Actually when you think about it, i did not even notice the fact that all of the zombies were black until some people started mentioning it. All i saw were zombies.
Reechel | Dec 21, 2010 | Reply
It’s in Africa. I can’t believe people got so upset that they had to put in Caucasian people in the game so people wouldn’t get mad. They didn’t get mad when it was Mexicans in Mexico, or White people in America.
They’re ZOMBIES from certain parts of the globe. If they go to JAPAN next, are they all suppose to be white zombies?!