'Can You Blush?'

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I like this explanation a lot more, seems to make more sense.

Though if Blade was white, he actually could blush since he can bleed out.


The earlier poster had it right. It was a racial thing, which was funny.

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Man, this situation reminds me of the time when some *beep* came up to me and asked if I could still see if I smiled because I'm Asian.

I'm gonna get you, like a spaceboy. Whoa whoa whoa whoa!!!

I only realised it was racist when I listened to the commentary.

I genuinely thought it was that the Bloodpack were asking whether he was embarassed about working with them, after so many years of fighting them. Hence, "can you blush?" I guess I should of presumed it was more rude than this, going on the rest of the film :P

I mean, Asad was black, or half caste, I didn't see why they'd put a racist remark in there.. until, like I said, heard the commentary.

I never took it as racist. I felt it more of a question on whether as a half human/half vampire he had the ability to control the flow of blood and be able to blush.

As an earlier poster pointed out Asad is black, Snowman is Chinese so the bloodpack seems culturally diverse. When Reinhard asks Blade the question he says something along the lines of "me and the boys were thinking" or "we were thinking".

The bloodpack are also pureblood vampires and as you see in the club one of them comments how all the clubbers aren't pure and they should "kill every single one of them".

To this extent it would seem that the bloodpack are racist to half vampires as opposed to black people.


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OK I've go the official explanation, just watching blade 2 with goyer and wesley snipes commentary, they put the line in there because some German guy actually asked wesley that question, goyer thought that was funny so he put it in as a homage to it.

So yeah, it's a racial things.

I didn't think it was a racial comment. Remember when Reinhardt is fighting Blade he says something like that his father said two things to his mother, before killing her. The first thing was the line that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. He's about to say the second line, but Blade already knows it, cuts him in half and says it anyway.

Now, does Reinhardt look like a guy, who had a black woman as a mother?

Spot on.

This is exactly I didn't quite understand the implied statement of the quote.

At first I also thought it was a racial comment towards Blade.
But then when Reinhardt claimed his dad also made this remark towards his mum, I began to wonder what the quote really meant.

Reinhardt sure as hell doesn't look half black.

I wasn't sure what that meant either, if it was a racist joke or something to do with him not being a real vampire. But I guess if they say it's a race joke on the commentary, that's it.