These last few pages of posts are just proving points that were made earlier on. Its the principal of the matter - everyone is to blame. White, black, hispanic, whatever. There's no place for it on line and no matter how you take part in it (by performing the racism or responding to it) you are part of the problem, not the solution.

To the argument of having a black president; it shows America is moving in the right direction, but is no way a sign that racism is done and over with. Its naive to think that. Just 50 years ago there were separate water fountains for whites and "other". Take a look at how long human history has been recorded and 50 years is NOTHING. Do yourself and everyone around you a favor; get the facts about your history, learn from it, and do something about your future. If the kids that are playing these games didn't have racist parents or racist friends, how would they even know to hate another person based upon the color of their skin or religion/sexual orientation?

When I was younger, I wouldn't take too kindly to racist comments, but now I'm just like 'whatever'. I'm entirely oblivious to pretty much any racist comments, especially ones that are heard on XBL, because it's almost laughable to take them seriously. I mean, it's not like any of them are going to take their mic's off, come to my house, and say the same things to my face. Seeing as how I'm 6'4", that wouldn't be very advisable, anyway :) Seriously though, it's really just a matter of ignoring the ignorant and choosing your battles. it's foolish to waste your emotions and energy on half-lives like the majority of people on XBL. As most of you have probably already inferred from my gamercard below, I am, in fact, black. However, I am a first-generation African American (first to be born in the States in my immediate family), and my personality could easily be compared to that of someone of a different race, since I don't act, dress, speak, or share the same interests as a typical African/African American would, and though I've had some acquaintances when I used to live in the U.S. (I currently live in Kuwait), I quite literally don't have any black friends (I have three friends from Sudan, and one from the same place in Africa as me, but he's 1/4 Indian and Australian). So I guess that is why terms like the "n" word don't offend me as much as one would think. Regardless, no matter what "kind" of black person you are, or any other race for that matter, you shouldn't let racist comments and rants get to you like that. Retaliation to to things like that is what keeps the whole damn cycle alive. If every single person on XBL ignored every single negative comment that was made towards them, racist or not, everyone would eventually stop, right? Common sense, really. Something, unfortunately, a great deal of people on this Earth lack sometimes. Fortunately, I'm merely 15 years old, so maybe I will live to see an XBL utopia, if XBL even lasts long enough for that to happen. Wishful thinking? Yeah. Could it happen? Anything can.atm0073

After posting earlier I just read the above, and its going to take kids like this to make a change happen. Its nice to see there are 15 year olds (or younger according to many of the posts) that understand the world around them and know that not all people are the same way.

I've heard some terrible things said while playing games; this includes racism, sexism, and bigotry, not to mention sexual orientation slander. It might sound cliche but if the parents were paying attention to what their kids were up to, maybe the problem wouldn't be so prominent. I'm 25 and there's no way any kid of mine would be allowed to play online without me there knowing what other people could possibly say to them. These games are predominately played at home, and you can't tell me that someone in the house isn't able to hear their child screaming out these terrible things. I'd love to be able to sit online and play one of the more popular games such as COD4 or GOW2 without having to hear some brat sing the latest Neo song or call someone else a Jew, but its not possible anymore. All in all you have to ignore it, and when you do meet some people that can carry on a civilized conversation, add them to your friends list and hope that they're online when you are.