chrissy: I feel conflicted about Jacob. He is a very awesome team mate. He is even funny at times... But he is the only black man in Mass Effect on your team. If you romance him in ME2, he cheats on you, and gets another woman pregnant in ME3.... Am I the only one that sees that as just a bit racist!?
Anonymous3: @chrissy: He may be the only black team member, but Captain Anderson is also black, and he's one of the most prestigious and well loved side characters. I wouldn't read too much into it.
Zaxares: Jacob's personality is fine. He's a calm, level-headed guy who I'd love to have my back in a firefight. He's just absolutely boring as a romance interest. It's pretty obvious that whoever wrote his romance did not put much effort into it at all.
Anonymous10: Joker and Ashley are technically the only white main characters in the crew (since Shepard can be any race). "Kaiden Alenko" isn't exactly a western name, after all (and he's bronze-skinned with black hair).
mrbutt2: Jacob would've been better if they changed his name to MASTA attractive and successful African, gave him shutter shades and a Yankees cap and had him voiced by Lil Jon
Anonymous15: Ashley isn't completely white either, she's supposed to be more Hispanic. There are white Hispanic people though so it's harder to gauge.
Kaiden is white too. Alenko being a Russian (Slavic) name doesn't make him any less so since ethnic Russians (and Slavs) are white, though it depends on which part of the country his family is from since Russia is.. you know.. Really fucking big and full of lots of different kinds of people.
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and no you aren't. It was a slap in the face to Jacobmancers.
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Meanwhile, Shepard fucks all kinds of aliens and even goes gay if so desired. Don't see anyone saying Shepard was cheating too.
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Kaiden is white too. Alenko being a Russian (Slavic) name doesn't make him any less so since ethnic Russians (and Slavs) are white, though it depends on which part of the country his family is from since Russia is.. you know.. Really fucking big and full of lots of different kinds of people.
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