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It was not political because there weren't any black characters.
it's funny you mentioned that because I didn't realize until I looked it up just now but the character with the most overtly political dialogue is black
Also: Smuggler exists, and is cool, and has a fucking secret underground lair, in Hell's Kitchen.
The NSF guy you're supposed to interrogate in the first level is also black.
Sorry (not sorry) to double post, but...
JC also tends toward getting in political arguments/discussions ... with black bartenders at night clubs.
There's one in Paris:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x_B6kSEHXnk
And one in Hong Kong:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JKF0IYwhrjk
Going by the voice acting... uh... well, they're not the same person... the guy in Paris has an actual French accent... but the guy in Hong Kong... has an Australian or New Zealand accent?
???
No clue what real world person actually voiced these two characters, but I am guessing it was two different people.
There's actually 4 male bartenders in the game, all black, and each one with a different voice actor - an Irish guy (the Lucky Money club one you linked, although I definitely feel like he's supposed to be doing an Australian accent), one actual black guy (the Paris hotel one you linked), a French guy (a different Paris bartender), and a Chinese guy.
I assume they just had this one character model and reused it - the game definitely does this a bunch. But this one's just one of the most blatant examples because all of these characters have dialogue and they're all obviously different voices.
All bartenders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eep0NhA1vfM
Well hey there ya go, I missed two.
The ones I specifically remembered... stuck out to me as particularly political convos JC can have with them.
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JC Denton can be black if you want though, but he's a white guy in the sequel
My head canon is that the albino version of JC (and thus also Paul, your 'brother') is potentially more true to the... experimental nature of JC's origin... but that is just my head canon.
Whoops, first batch had too many expressed recessive genes, something like that.
It also works as an 'explanation' as to why the entire game manages to take place at night: JC would otherwise get sunburned and/or need a melanin/UV protection augmentation, hahaha!
Homeless person at the beginning that tells you a bit about the level layout iirc.
If you're talking about Harely Filben, he's pretty white.
You may be misremebering or mixing him up with Leo Gold, the NSF 'officer' you either capture or kill at the top of the Statue, who is definitely black, and basically gives JC an unironically woke, mini lecture as to how much of a corporate oligarchy the US is.
It's been like 20 years, defs had my wires crossed.
no problem haha, i am the person who actually lives the meme and reinstalls it (or goes back to my current slow playthrough) every time someone mentions it, lol