User blog comment:Gearslover01/Racist?/@comment-1330314-20100408202127

I think this is a matter of attaching too much importance to one detail, and ignoring all others. Yes, Grace Holloway and Leo Hartwig both live in Pauper's Drop, but (as MegaScience pointed out), there's the ultra-rich Oscar Calraca who lives in the same Rapture as the other two.

If you want to stay only on the singleplayer, then one could object that Grace is portrayed as an intelligent, stoic and talented (not to mention popular) singer; while Leo's one of the most powerful Splicers in the game, and managed to concoct his own Gene Tonic formula, thus breaking the stereotype branding black people as stupid.

Just because the only two black people in the game live in the poor district (and even then, that's not true. Some of the Brutes in the other levels of the game are also black) doesn't automatically brand the game as racist. It's like saying the game's antisemitic because the Swami Epstein machines are too pessimistic (and also charged twice the indicated price in the original BioShock) or that it's homophobic because Brute Splicers, who are gay, are also depicted as stupid and obsessed with masculinity. You should drop it.