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Left 4 Dead 2 is racist because 'several' zombies are black

18 minutes ago - 3:00 PM on 07.15.2009, Jim Sterling

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     Utterly pathetic

This is unbelievable. I've seen people try and find racist undertones in harmless entertainment before, but The Houston Chronicle's Willie Jefferson takes home the prize for making the most ridiculous and convoluted racism link in history. According to him, Left 4 Dead 2 is "disturbing" because "several" of the zombies are African-American. Yep, that's right -- you can't even have ONE black zombie without somebody crying racism.

"I am disturbed by the growing trend of racist undertones that are cropping up in video games," writes Jefferson. "One of the games that comes to mind is Left 4 Dead 2  ... Set in New Orleans, players will have to fight their way through hordes of zombies - with several of them who appear to be African-Americans. When I saw the first trailer for the game, all I could think about was Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath."

So let me get this straight ... Valve is now wrong to include a single black zombie in the game? I literally cannot believe I just read that someone is upset over "several" black zombies -- not an entire army of black ones, just several black ones amidst a bunch of white ones. Has society really gone so f*cking stupid that we can't do anything anymore without the race card being played?

Jefferson also attacks Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood for daring to feature a Confederate officer as the main hero: "The Confederacy, as far as I am concerned, wanted to keep their cheap slave labor and the like. I can not stand the Confederate flag... To me, the flag represents hate -- and offends me and many others to no end. [It] made me wonder how much research Ubisoft did for this game ..."

I think society has really gone too far with these pathetic attempts to find racism in everything. When you're saying L4D2 is racist because some black people happen to be IN it, and when you're saying a game is racist for not automatically portraying every single Confederate soldier as a babyraping Nazi (which is, itself, a rather bigoted viewpoint), then you've lost your grip on reality.

Jefferson ought to be ashamed of himself for obscuring real issues of racism with this "cry wolf" nonsense.

Yes, but god forbid there ISN'T black zombies.

That would be racism.

O no not this again.

ITS NOT RACIST!

If that quote is anything to go by, Willie Jefferson has terrible grammar. It's possible he's offended because he is a black zombie himself.

Oh America, you're obscenely exaggerated version of political correctness will someday cause the end of you.

Though looking at Resident Evil 5 sales, I don't think anybody actually cares whenever some goon cries "racist!" about games unfortunately, Capcom did have to cut their game up because of this, adding many Pablos and Johnnys to the game.

Oh ENGLAND, you're obscenely exaggerated version of political correctness will someday cause the end of you.

Shadowblind, its certainly not only America.

Yes because black people aren't apart of society and can't be effected by zombie outbreaks... /sarcasm

Haha yeah, imagine the outcry when a zombie-game in New-Orleans would NOT have any black zombies. Now that would be racist

Oh yes I know. but when I watch CNN and FOX and The Onion(I consider the Onion to be the most accurate of them all) I hear about it very very often

I hate how only white people can be enemies in games, other wise its "racsist". Theres even aboriginal choice awards and stuff like that, but if there was a "coc-asian choice awards" it would be called rascist