Frost

I usually have given up on these online debates, but I feel like I should throw a few cents in:

Someone mentioned Final Fantasy not having any black characters, but they're wrong - Barret in Final Fantasy VII, leader of the terrorist group Avalanche.

I actually wrote about this a few years ago - the same argument from mostly whites and a few token blacks/latins screamed at the idea that this game could be racist - the comments were almost the same as the ones posted here. I jumped in on a few of these conversations and posed the following question (which I'll pose here - and I doubt any of the whiny "I don't see color" bitches will be able to refute it).

Barret and Tifa come from and grew up in the same town, and we see many other characters from that town and see the way they speak - so why does Barrett speak in such a stereotypical, ebonics and profanity laden manner? If Tifa and the others that grew up with him spoke in the same "ghettospeak", then fine, no problem.

Simply put - there's no reason for him to speak like that. Nevermind the imagery of having a gun ATTACHED to his hand...that I can forgive/look past. I'm not saying we can't have a headstrong, brutish looking black man portrayed and automatically call it racist (although for years this has seemed to be the norm, but thankfully games like Half Life 2 break those stereotypes)... but the speech and minstrel like characture? All of that ROLLED TOGETHER amounts to modern day blackface - that I can't. And as Americans - as Americans that should well know the history and blood shed against African Americans since this country's inception - in this day and age and in 2006, none of us should accept that, and it's almost our responsibility to question it.

I see the same thing here - the first section of the clip I honestly didn't see it - but the second section? That's definitely blackface. It's definitely intentional, and it didn't get pulled out of someone's ass. Nobody would be pissed off if they were

As ingrained as race is in our culture, and the fact that so many people (as evidenced by the responses here) are definitely AWARE of it - I honestly cannot imagine how something like this "slipped by" or was created without malicious intent.

All of you saying that we should just "stop talking about racism" - you don't erase a 400 year injustice in 40 years. It's American to question, to rebel, and to strive for equality and respect regardless of creed or religion, and if we had this "ignore and it'll take care of itself" attitude that many of you have, then King and Malcolm's efforts would never have even come to fruition.

That's fairly recent - the second clip is of Angell Hall, and the huge widescreen print queues were installed like 2 or 3 years ago.