This is embarrassing. You could’ve admitted the mistake and corrected “black” for “African American” and that’d be it but no, you had to double down on your idiotic American-centric view of the world. What a joke.

I’m not sure it is meaningfully different in this context. Those are nationalities. It seems disingenuous to more or less imply they don’t count based on their nationalities.

You are using the term wrong, stop being a baby and correct your article.

Dude...you sure setting yourself up as the gatekeeper of what black means is a great idea, Mr. white guy?

I know you are getting a lot of hate for what you said.

Kenyan, Brazilian, and Saudi’s Arabian aren’t races, their cultures. Every country doesn’t get new human genes.

Then say “African American” woman. Please don’t embarrass yourself any further.

This is the wrongest take I’ve ever seen on this site, goodness.

Hell, it even undersells black cultures in America lol.

You’re not helping yourself. Just update the article to say “African American” instead of “black”. Unless you want the controversy. Controversy of this nature though.... is probably not the type you want as it’ll probably be stigmatizing.

Hey, Ian. I know you mean well, but this is a really bad take that you are not qualified to make.

So Deejay, Sean, Birdie and Dudley aren’t black because they are Jamaican, Brazilian and British then?

Elena and Laura can CERTAINLY be referred to as Black. The term African American has been passé for some time, outside of corporate circles. One can be from Kenya and be Black. One can be from Brazil and be Black. Blackness transcends one’s nationality, and just as Black Americans have a connection to slavery, so too…

I have to interject my opinion here. Black does not mean African American. It encompasses all of the diaspora. Black American would be more fitting, but limiting Black to one segment is a bad look. Signed, a Black person from Belgium. 

Black =/= African American. If she’s the first African-American or the Black American say that. By your own admission she is in fact not the first black female character and what you apparently are excited for is her the American-ness, represented by her braids and walkman. So to leave that out and then to try to…

Perhaps in the future you should say African American when that’s what youre referring too. Even the link you posted seems to suggest that Black is not only limited to African Americans...

Good thing you wrote that specifically and not just “first playable black woman” to confuse everyone.

Although I think I get your point, I feel just using Black as a synonym for African-American is a very American centric viewpoint and perhaps undersells other black cultures

“Kimberly, who was prominently teased at the end of yesterday’s Street Fighter 6 presentation, will be the series’ first playable Black woman”

Imagine being so insecure that a fake woman holding a position of authority in a videogame made you uncomfortable. I'm not at all surprised that their celebacy is involuntary.