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Then Calx and I formulate a mental list of African-American characters in NES games. The list is as follows: Now I'm sure there's more characters from NES games that are African-American, but I cannot think of any at this time. But the question remains, why is there such a large difference between the videogame characters races? We eventually formulated two different realistic opinions of why NES game characters are almost never African-American. Reason one has to do with people who are unfortunatly prejudice. I really hate to mention this possibility, but unfortunatly it's out there. The majority of game programmers are Japanese, maybe they don't care what the African-Americans think, or how they feel. I hope that this is not the case. Another possibility may be that the Japanese people do not think about the fact that there are people of different races. I don't mean this in a bad way either, if you draw a picture of someone, you are most likely going to draw them of the same race as you are. This is most likely the case, and I hope that it is. This wraps up the article on videogame racism. I hope that people now notice what Calx and I did on that night a few days ago. What can we do about it? We can make people more aware of this, and it'll hopefully make future games more equal. |
This discussion came up one late night, after talking for hour upon hour with Calx. We were both joking, as I started telling Calx about the title Clu Clu Land. Then I said something like "Everytime I hear the name Clu Clu Land, it reminds me of the Klu Klux Klan." Calx agrees to this, and this lands me to telling about teh swastika symbol on the building you destroy in level 2 of Double Strike. Calx and I talk a little more about why people have to dislike each other, and why racism exists. Calx and I really don't understand what the big deal is, about what race you are. Then this question arises, "Why don't African-Americans appear in as many videogames?"
