I'm giving all these people a digital blackface exaggerated side-eye gif right now.
Don't you know using black people to post memes is racist. Digital blackface.
Do you know what's not racist, white/asian developers including black characters in their game even though they are not that minority. Not digital blackface.
What's the difference?
Barret was expanded on and not a Mr T caricature if you played and completed the game. It's obvious these idiots haven't played the game and/or the original. He is angry with himself as he was fooled by Shinra to have a reactor in his hometown which led to the death of someone close to him. He is passionate, the localisation of Barret in the 1990s was a Mr. T caricature but now he is fleshed out. A poster got 2 week ban for racism by using the voice actor to back up his argument. These idiots thought Barret was too white as the neon lights made his skin brighter, well take Thomas Edison out of the history books in that case as he was racist for inventing the lightbulb.
I could also include a horror trope and claim racism but I'd spoil the game by doing so. But it also shows these losers didn't complete the game.
This is as bad as the Uncharted 4 shite where dumbasses wanted to actively sack Laura Bailey because after she got the job her character was drawn as a black South African. They wanted her to lose her job that she earned specifically on the basis of her skin, not to a South African but a minority in America. Imagine the crap Naughty Dog would have gotten had they whitewashed Nadine because Laura is white. I've yet to hear an actual argument on that situation that made sense.