I have you confused with that rich old guy mb…
Reading comprehension taking a serious dip in this thread the longer it goes on.
Well you can be black and have lighter skin, so I see your point here, but I’m pretty sure that Ana is ME
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Exactly, some black people are darker than others and some are lighter.
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The Sinai peninsula is in Asia.
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Well, at least one person realized that being from Africa doesnt mean youre black.
This is a win in my book.
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He put “ana’s skin tone is black” so no he doesn’t agree with you
Success! The top liked comment is still the one saying Symmetra is a black woman and that you’re racist tho LMAO
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That’s cute and all but you actually didn’t refute anything I said. You are not asking for authentic representation, you are asking for a token representative. I know this, because you’re gate keeping the phrase “Black women”. You don’t want a properly written, black, female character. Because we have them already and you’re denying their background, their heritage and their ethnicity because you want a token.
Not at all what I said. If you’re going to strawman me, then I’m going to stop humouring you with replies. If a black actor is given a role in a film because there were auditions and this black person was the best for the role, then that is how it should be. However, if the top 5 actors are all white, and the 6th best is black, but the casting officer goes “Hmm… Lots of white people already” and picks the 6th best for the job, then I consider this to be a wrong decision.
Bringing it back to Overwatch, I want interesting, fun and balanced characters before I want characters to fit within a certain demographic.
There is a middle ground. It’s here: This person belongs to be in the media for who they are as a person. This person happens to be black. There is a black person in the media. Everyone is happy, everything was fair.
“This person sucks at the job and doesn’t belong here, but it’s a black woman so add her on the pay-roll” is wrong. What you have done there is hire someone, not based on their merits but on the colour of the skin. You might not like what I’m about to say, but judging someone on the colour of their skin is racism.
If you cannot have “These 5 black people are better but I want a white person” then you cannot have “These 5 white people are better but I want a black person”.
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TLDR anytime soon? ? Pls?
My cutie Lúcio 
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Being nit-picky with race is a fickle thing. What constitutes someone being black?
Going off of your exclusion of Egyptians or Indians I’d say that you would reject that it has to do with skin color, and more that it has something to do with sub-Saharan Africans.
But what about sub-Saharan Africa makes someone black? Is it being born there that makes you black, or is it your ancestry?
If you say that it’s being born there that makes you black, then I have a follow up question. Is Elon Musk black?
If you say that it’s your ancestry, then how far back can you go and still be considered ‘black’? Anyone who traces their ancestry back long enough will eventually find that they have ancestors in sub-Saharan Africa because that’s where H0m0 Sapiens first appeared (sorry for the 0’s, Blizz won’t let me name my genus). Is the Queen of England black?
Or maybe, just maybe, you are the ignorant one who is overly obsessed with the minute details of what constitutes ‘race’, without actually considering the minute details of what constitutes ‘race’.
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People from India are also dark skinned, does that mean they are black?
Ohh boy here we go again
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I do think this is a royally useless conversation but when people say “black”, they specifically mean American descendants of African slaves, or Africans in general. People speaking in AAVE, for example. It’s not just dark skin, it’s about history and unity.
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Fr though who cares as long as the gameplay is good? The cast could be entirely black and I wouldn’t care as long as the gameplay was fun and engaging! I’m here to play a video game and escape the real world, I do not care about being represented in a video game…
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I don’t see the issue
Sojourn is on the horizon
You could also see Efi (the creator of Orisa) as a hero, although she’s not playable
No reason to be upset
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Success??? you do know likes mean nothing without dislikes right, of the hundreds that viewed im sure most would like to dislike it as would you im sure
You need to get your terminology straight. Earlier you said:
“Dark skinned =/=black?? And by black i mean an african woman, why do i even need to clarify this”
In this thread you committed the exact word slip that you are accusing this guy of making. So…what does that mean about you?
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Are yall even black?
I understand the want for diverse heroes but we all ready have more diversity than most games. We also are getting a new hero, a black female, which you said you wanted with Overwatch 2 for sure. We don’t know that OW1 isn’t getting more heroes, that is what they stated but people can change their minds, especially if this game is taking longer than they expected. You also shouldn’t be mad that a company because they haven’t yet added some hero model that you wanted. It shouldn’t be about someone’s skin color it should be about the hero itself and how they are unique despite race or gender.
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