Quan-Madrid even goes so far as to suggest that "One could also equate the "invasion of the Moja and the fleeing of the LocoRocos to black slaves being brought to American and the very common practice of today of white flight. That and I hear that Japanese people (in Japan) at times can be pretty innocently racist." "The images are also then okay to be labelled as the enemy or even serve as representations of black characters in general, despite the racist images they perpetuate. "In comparison, some countries such as Japan (where LocoRoco was developed) do not have significant black populations and so blackface images can come about without any criticism. "Today in virtually any public sphere in the US, a depiction of a blackface character is not met without much murmurings and harsh criticism," Quan-Madrid wrote. They remained commonplace for many years - in Britain, the BBC's own Black and White Minstrel Show ran until 1978. In a post on his 1UP blog, Alejandro Quan-Madrid argued that the Moja enemies in LocoRoco resemble the racist "blackface" caricature adopted by minstrel peformers at the start of the twentieth century. A blogger has kicked up a right old storm of controversy after suggesting that PSP puzzler LocoRoco has racist overtones.
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