Racism in Resident Evil 5?

First of all, some facts. Resident Evil 5. Just another Resident Evil in a long line of zombie shooting and killing fun.

However, there's a little something different to the fun this time. The game takes place in Africa. Naturally, the zombies are Africans. I'll leave you to work out the rest.

Then, Russ Pitts at the Escapist, decided to comment on all of that. Now, I'll let his words be his.

But I'm going to add something. Just a tiny little comment.

Doesn't this seem a bit like that one episode of South Park? The one where Chef (a black man) declares the flag of South Park racist? Now, hear me out. On the flag, there were white figures hanging a black man. As the episode progressed, the main kids eventually had to give a debate that would determine the course of events. The kids for keeping the flag the same argued that killing had been around for a long time and that it was natural or something like that. Then Chef accuses them of missing the point. He then tells them that his problem with the flag was that it was racist. The kids for keeping the flag gasp, then explain that they never really saw it as racist.

If that explanation of the episode falls short, the wikipedia version is pretty good, too.

I just have one more thing to add. A link to a more facty-ish article covering this thingy.