Is Chris Redfield a Zombie-Killing Racist?
An African-American gamer examines the recent allegations that Resident Evil 5 is racist, and comes to one conclusion.
"Sometimes folks, a cigar is just a cigar and a semi-automatic to a zombie’s head is just a semi-automatic to a zombie’s head.
Village Voice writer Bonnie Ruberg lambasted not only the White lead character shooting Black zombies, but compared the zombie contagion metaphor which goes all the way back to the films of George Romero to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. She went even farther saying the game trailer seems to suggest that race itself is a contagion the White protagonist is afraid to catch. Um, seriously, Bonnie?"
