Agreed. There are lots of races of zombies, all of which are being shot at in fictional towns and cities that look similar to a real-life city, just to be cool. This is just BS.

The game is set where 2/3 of the population is African American. What do you expect?
How is that racist anyway? Wouldn't it be more racist to have the game set in New Orleans and everyone was White?

I Agree with Valve. I guess only "crackers" can be zombies?

"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"

This is just nonsense. I personally feel it would be more racist to exclude African Americans as video game characters. I understand Zombies don't exist but if they did I am sure they would not all be white.

And what the hell does Katrina have to do with Valve being racist. It was a terrible disaster that the government horrible mishandled but this is a fictional video game set in a very well known city. A city that is often associated with voodoo and magic in many fictional stories.

Willie Jefferson is trying to make connections that don't exist. Does he expect people to exclude New Orleans from all works of fiction because of Katrina. I kinda feel that Willie may be the one who is racist.

Ok so, in the first left4dead, thousands of white people are killed along with other races (Black police officer zombies, citizens etc etc.) And so a game set in the south (left4dead2), that yes, has a higher concentration of Black populace (Which, is not racist... they live there, lets just forbid people of a color living in a area more dominantly then another area...) its called demographics dur... And that makes it racist? So, apparently slaughtering thousands of infected white people is perfectly fine, but put another race in there... specifically in this case black... and its racist? I find it humorous that something only tends to turn into race when someone just magically decides its racist... Resident Evil 5... Set in freaking Africa... It's not like a bunch of white or Asian people live there... It's a continent dominated with Africans whose dominant skin color just so happens to be... you guess it... black... But oh no... it has to be racist because the people infected are black... I understand that some of the people in that game (this being Resident Evil 5 im talking about atm) might have been doing seedy everyday life things, but so does every other color (which has ZERO bearing on a persons character) do seedy things... argh stop with making everything racist when its not!

Has anyone even considered the zombie population and their feelings? I find it funny how we discuss white and black, and leave zombies out in the cold. This makes me sick. Don't you worry though, i have a feeling the leader of the FZOA (Free Zombies of America) will chime in on this any day now.

So all the WWII Shooters must be racist for killing an infinite amount of white people... be them Nazis or not. Lets face it, we kill more white people in FPS games than black people. Valve is leveling the spread if anything;
Oh, by the way... who cares!?

but when it was hordes of white people in l4d it was ok. just like in gta vice city when it was a white guy shooting cops and prostitutes it was ok but in san andreas using a black character was racist. i just dont understand these people. i mean one of the characters you can use is black!!!!!!!

As a fellow zombie and member of the FZOA, I am also very upset about all the killing of my people. DAMN HUMANS!!!

Willie Jefferson is a racist.

This is a perfect example of people being too touchy. As the racist thing: so if valve didnt have any african american zombies (or other races in general) then they would be racist for not having any, but when they do then they are still racist. This is simply some people being too touchy (and maybe over thinking things?). As for the katrina idea: I am sorry I am saying this but come on, there are all sorts of natural disasters that are horrible and happen all the time, and no one ever goes on about it for 4 years after the fact (I will add that I am sorry for all the people who had to go through it or lost someone) but I think its time to move on.

I find is humorous that people with certain skin colors consider themselves a different race. God, how big of an imbecile do you have to be? Perhaps people should quit worrying about skin color and....OH SHIT, SHOOT THE ZOMBIE!!!!!! /pew pew

Among other things less colorful.

Oh wait.

Our nation is becoming one of the most racist on earth, mainly against WHITE people not black. And people like Willie here are the ones doing it.

I thought this was the era of information, I guess not. If it was we would be able to understand that there JUST MIGHT BE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND THAT THEY JUST MIGHT GET INFECTED BY A PANDEMIC! \


Idiots.

I guess the next crysis can't have koreans in north korea.

i agree, i want to shoot more hispanic accented zombies

its time some black people die in videogames......everyone else does.....

This fool says this about Valve, who created Alyx Vance to be very likable character, and even love interest to their Hero... clearly a company that's NOT racist (at least not to blacks), because zombies in a dominantly black area are represented based on the local population.

I... don't see the argument. You want to see a racist videogame? Checkout Ethnic Cleansing or White Law.

I actually dug up and read this IDIOT's full article, and its shocking to see so much ignorance strung together. Some of the outraged comment posts to the Houston Chronicle were longer than Willie's stupid rant.

I... think Willie wrote the article to try to get attention for a crappy site. That's my take. And, it will be interesting if this shameless POS will apologize to Valve for being such an asshole, shooting his mouth off with such unfounded allegations of racism.

Everybody in New Orleans IS a zombie so Left 4 Dead 2 is accurate.

These small numbers of outspoken "leaders", if you will, who keep bringing up race as an issue where anyone (who isnt themselves a racist) with a brain can see it is not need to get a life. I dare say they are keeping racism alive and stronger than if they just shutup and went on with life. Maybe if they didnt look at the world through a racial filter they would see not everyone pays attention to the race characters in a videogame because THERE ARE NO RACIAL UNDERTONES!

They should throw in a blue zombie just to prevent these racist accusations from being made. In fact, make all the zombies blue. Their, racism solved Problem is, all those azure people would claim racism for not being included in the game. Or, the Blue Men Group will be offended. You can't win everything.

I never shoot the white ones. Only the black. I don't have to worrie about white zombies stealing my $!#T while i'm off trying to survive.

seems this guy only posted that article to get more hits, racism.. lol? XD

when i grow up i want to go out of my way to get offended by things that are not offensive!

and if you really want a good old fashioned racist undertone that a)makes a light hearted poke at the time period and b)does so with almost no notice from media, or even the people playing the game, then take a good hard look at team fortress 2, it's character lineup, and it's weapons. It really shows that we are in a different time period due to the fact that i've mentioned this IN GAME to several people and they JUST REALIZE IT. Not something that most of us think of this day in age. For those of you that don't have the game (should be very few of you) the black guy's melee weapon is a bottle that you can break and has the cartoonish trademark "xxx" for liqour on it. The game is set in the 50's era. And the social comment has been pointed out in other popular media such as clerks 2. Yet none of the players seem to ever have a problem with it, and I know for a fact that I have personally played with several black people of several different nationalities. It's just not the way we think anymore, save for the ultra defensive people who keep the race card flying out the window every time they think they can get away with it or gain something from it. Lets face it, there's no such thing as a hate crime, if you do something out of malice to another human being, you should be treated the same no matter what color or creed that person tends to be. And when subtle social commentary in any form should be taken with a grain of salt. EG: all of the tf2 characters are heavily stereotypical in one way or another, but you don't see russians getting upset over the heavygun english mangling heavy, now do you? at least i think that's what his nationailty is supposed to be. Or the new york/Brooklyn stylization of the scout. Possibly not even the Australian outback crocodile dundeesque look of the sniper. Nope, not one peep. They ALL carry stereotypes. I'm just going to sue over the fact that Native americans are not represented in the game (unless that's the pyro, who knows, i'm native and i like to burn things, kidding). Point being, people need to start joining us here in the real world and cease to point out racism where it doesn't exist.

This is a clear case of over-reaction and simply not doing your homework. It reminds me of a semi-recent episode of Hardball on M$NBC - some douche "pundit" claimed that a white senator was racist for saying that "if inflation isn't a big deal than Zimbabwe must be a great place to live" (sarcastically). This tool pundit lost it on the Republican senator (who is also probably a big douche), saying why'd you have to pick on a black country? Numb-nuts apparently didn't Google Zimbabwe - the first suggested word is inflation, for they have trillion dollar bills... and you'll need 2 of them to purchase a loaf of bread. Fucktards.

Maybe, but I doubt it. Probably just a run-of-the-mill dipshit plagued by the need to over-compensate for his fear of black people, most likely stemming from white guilt. Though it is interesting that when you add any non-white characters to a protagonist role, these fools either cheer or say "not good enough". Then you go and add any non-whites to antagonist, or even anti-hero roles, and they always bitch.

Keep writing about tech in a local print newspaper Willie, you'll be sure to have a job for at least another few months. LOL, AssClown!

I say it is racist that we exclude black people from dying as zombies.
/sarcasm

People are stupid. It's a video game!

I have the temptation to release a racial slur here but I am refraining with all my might...

Who do they think they are!? (you know 'who' I'm talking about...) They think they're so special that they deserve special treatment?!?! Outrageous...

Go Valve! I'd love to shoot down those zombies...

what if the fps was set in china? would it be racist to shoot the chinese zombies? use your head willie.

A person who brings up racist is a racist.

All I can say is wow, back off for a second. Racism is so out of place now, it's not even funny anymore. You can kill 100 white ones and 2 black ones, and then everyone says "OMFG! You shot a black guy, YOU RACIST BASTARD!!!!" It's bullshit, racism isn't even all that prevalent anymore, it's more likely that minorities get stuff the way they want it, because as soon as you say no they all go "RACIST!!!" and then you can't look like an ass, so you give them what they want, it's not even fair anymore.

i'm black and....wait....willie jefferson is a white dude!??!? with a name like that i thought he was black!!! what does that make me I wonder? folks, don't even bother to rise to all this foolishness. a zombie is a zombie is a zombie....and i'll kill 'em all and let Willie sort 'em out. racist my buttcrack....