BOYNTON BEACH - Chanting "Stop Vice City," about 100 Haitian-Americans demonstrated outside a Wal-Mart Supercenter to protest the company's selling of a video game with anti-Haitian epithets.
Representatives of Haitian organizations, churches and political clubs joined Saturday to protest the selling of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a popular video game that features dialogue encouraging players to "kill all Haitians" and "kill the Cubans."
"It's inflammatory, it's violent and it's vulgar," said attorney Willie Jones, who yelled into a megaphone during the protest.
Wal-Mart officials said they had no plans to stop selling the game.
"Our focus is on our customers and we offer products we believe they want," Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Fogleman said. "These games are selling well and we've had few customer complaints."
Fogleman noted that only customers age 17 and older can buy the game and Wal-Mart requires identification from younger customers "so mature-rated games are not ending up in the hands of kids without their parents' consent."
Take-Two Interactive Software, the manufacturer of the game, in which an ex-convict is hired to recover stolen drug money in the streets of Miami, has been harshly criticized for its portrayal of the groups. About 11-million games have been sold.
Take-Two Interactive officials have said the objectionable statements will be removed.
