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African Americans and the Video Game Industry

Posted by kdawson on from the in-the-game-but-not-of-the-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes "African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites, yet only 2% of game developers are black. This past week, MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five black game industry professionals for their perspective on race in the industry. Intelligent Gamer summarizes and highlights portions of this lengthy series of interviews."

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  1. Re:Who cares? by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know, but there was a Danish documentary on the subject.

  2. Re:Who cares? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work with a guy that's African. Came to US for college straight from Ghana.

    He has no problem being called black.

    He also has no problem walking into bars declaring: "Where are da white wimmen at?". He thinks this (and the whole movie) is hilarious.

    Only once did we run into trouble. Some 2nd generation+ born in America African descendants decided he wasn't "African enough". Some native tongue (No clue what it was) and some bouncers quickly ended that.