Harada claimed he didn't know how to create black characters without being racially offensive, which doesn't make any sense because Tekken has established black characters already. He has no problem adding in school girls and robots though. Knowing him he might have considered giving Bruce the Paul Phoenix treatment and making him an idiot.
the black characters in the series aren't (weren't) stereotypical characters to begin with
Raven was a ninja, most ninjas in games/media are Japanese or white
Bruce was a muay thai fighter, usually Thai or Japanese
Eddie/Christie did capoeira but who else does in the world? They replaced them (as it seems) with another Brazilian but she whiter than Lili
they had the least racially offensive black characters in any fighting game that had one
nope, not buying it - the excuse, or the game.