I've already said my peace on the matter regarding is Resident Evil 5 being racist. My stance is 100% no based on what I've seen on the game. Could that change as more story comes out, sure, but right now I just see people making an opinion that I feel is a little bit unfair towards the company and the game itself. But they are entitled to their opinion. This is much more about the uncivilized and negative reactions going towards these individuals who think the game is being racist, or at least racially insensitive. Hearing some gamers are contacting these people, dropping derogative words here and there about them, greatly depresses my gamer heart. I would've thought better of gamers.

From the article:

Race relations is not normally a major concern for the gaming community.

But on Wednesday the issue exploded throughout the blogosphere as a GamePolitics report describing charges made against Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil 5 by the Black Looks blog was widely picked up by other sites. At GP alone the story generated more than 800 comments, many of them angry, a few, unfortunately, laced with racial epithets.

Kym Platt (left), the woman who penned the Black Looks piece chastising RE5, described her take on the response on yet another blog site, Ask This Black Woman. Platt wrote:

Never have I been so harassed and insulted, and all because I questioned the imagery in this game… The response has been horrifying… I am shocked that in the same breath some of these folks denied that Resident Evil 5 displayed racist/anti-Black imagery; they called me things like “nigger”, “bitch”, and “whore”.

…The gamers would like to intimidate me and silence me, but that’s not going to happen. This vitriol has done nothing but embolden me and my political convictions.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com