Here’s another picture of a member of a previously-enslaved race who’s capering while strumming a string instrument and wearing flashy clothes:
I assume that image isn’t problematic? How is the picture of the Hadozee bard more like this
(previously posted by @Johnny_Bravo )
than like that?
And if we’re that sensitive, then it’s impossible to avoid racist tropes, because there are so many of them. If they show a character who vaguely resembles a black person who’s a bard, it’s minstrelsy. If they show a character who vaguely resembles a black person who’s a fighter or barbarian, it’s the trope that blacks are savage brutes. If they’re a rogue, it’s the trope that blacks are criminals. If they’re a spellcaster, it’s the trope of the magical Negro. If they don’t show any characters at all who resemble black people, that’s obviously a problem. What’s left?
And yeah, they’re a race of monkey-people. This is in a game that also has races of fish-people and cat-people and goat-people and snake-people and turtle-people and rabbit-people and elephant-people and hippopotamus-people.