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According to ZDNet.com, the percentage of white people in the US who play video games is fifty one, which is the same percentage as African Americans. This may look equal, but when the total populations are taken into account, the equality changes greatly. In the 2010 US census, which is the most accurate representation of US population, 42,020,743 people identify as African American.(census.gov) Fifty-one percent of that number is 21,430,578 African Americans who play video games. In the same census data for Whites, the total population is 231,040,398 people. Fifty-one percent of that data is 117,830,603 people. This is an 11:2 ratio of white players to black players, which is a huge difference in people, and not very