User blog comment:Tricksteroffools/Booker's Native American lineage/@comment-3967731-20140910062006

For anyone not familiar with this issue, the Booker DeWitt page underwent a long-running edit war several months ago that you are probably not aware of. It weas a struggle to get the wording arranged in a way that the majority of people approved of and changing it back is a source of ire for many of the long-time contributors to the site.

The fact is that Booker has parial Native American ancestry. No one is denying this (except for Booker himself). I'm sure we'd all appreciate a wider and more diverse range of protagonists in video games (as opposed to the seemingly endless parade of white leads), but the fact is that the current placement of Booker's heritage belongs under the History section, here are a few reasons why:

1. The knowledge of Booker's Native American heritage is potentially a spoiler to the plot. Placing it below the Spoiler Warning prevents this.

2. Booker is not only Native American, you can tell just by looking at his picture. I really hate bringing this up as various traits determine physical appearance, but clearly he is of caucasian ancestry as well, we just don't know exactly what. Do you want us to list the backgrounds of every character (Ex. "Jack is the white protagonist of BioShock" or "Andrew Ryan is the caucasian founder of Rapture…")? No, because it's clunky and unnecessary. So, for the sake of both accuracy and continuity with all the other pages on the site, we don't mention that kind of stuff in the opening line.


 * 3. Mentioning it at the very begining is like waiving a gigantic flag, which is neither good nor bad, it's just drawing a lot of attention to it (It's just like mentioning all the other characters are white). The fact is that his ancestry is brought up where appropriate on the article (under the History section which discusses his past). A person ought to be proud of their heritage, but Booker DeWitt certainly isn't.