Eh... correct me if I'm wrong but the Last of Us only had 3 (4 if you have Left Behind, I guess) "major" black characters. One of which dies to infection, one of which dies to grief of failing to protect the one that died to infection... which makes kinda sense in the survivors guilt-y way of the world they were in. The last died to Joel's hand to protect Ellie, despite Ellie being the possible savior from the virus at the cost of her life.
That last one I have an issue with. Not in the racial sense, but in the shit writing that basically 180s from the inevitable conclusion and solution to the problem because Joel somehow magically starts to "love" Ellie like she is his own daughter/Sarah despite the fact she was nothing "but a job" for him until like... Utah. He even wanted to pawn her off on his brother to go in his place to the Fireflies until Ellie threw a fit about that.
Heck he got up from his injury like it was nothing and took down an army in the winter arc.
That's another thing that pissed me off despite the ending. Joel nearly dies to a rebar impaling him and Ellie barely manages to escape only to captured by the people Joel and Ellie killed in Denver only for Joel to somehow Rambo through... two months healing? Seemed a little out there.
But to get back to the racial issue: I didn't really see a problem with the black characters dying in so far as story reasons were concerned. I guess I can see the "offense" as far as them all dying while the white "couple"/duo of Ellie and Joel were able to survive a bunch of shit and end the game both alive... but really, what do you expect in a survival story? I guess you could flip the races around and even then I'd still have a problem with the shitty ending over the races of the characters.
