Anyway bing bang boom, he's voiced by a white guy because Capcom got lazy, like they do with most everything. Ninja Theory and P* don't pat themselves on the back for hiring Lou Beatty Jr to voice Phineas or Dave Fennoy to voice Rodin, Square doesn't jerk it to hiring Beau Billingslea and John Eric Bentley for Barrett, and Bandai-Namco doesn't stroke itself off because they hired accurate voices to their whole cast of characters from TT2 and upward, because a) it actually isn't that hard to get people who match the role if you're aiming for authenticity unless it's a child's role, and b) when the character is distinct (and especially if the role requires actually speaking in an accent or an entire other language in question), people are going to notice if the voice behind it is genuine, and c) it's apparently forbidden to say now, but people of different races do have distinct voices. You can tell when it's an adult woman voicing a small boy because they can't actually hire a child (puberty and all, if not labor laws). And South African gamers noticed that The Same Overrated Voice Actress was hired to play the role of a South African woman with a slippery accent that sounded vaguely British, because she struggled to say things with her obviously American pronunciation.
Capcom just thought it'd be easier to get the same guy voicing Goliath and tell him to put on a "blaccent" and call it a day because he heard someone nearby and imitated the voice for fun, and people don't notice/think it's good because it fits their idea of what a black guy sounds like rather than being actually voiced by a black guy.
And no, people don't actually believe the "best person is hired for the job" when it comes to roles they consider already taken by their ideal actor or group of actors. See the: "SJW Diversity Hire" controversy over the Witcher Netflix series. Yennefer looks like "this" and Ciri looks like "this", so even though the whole point of acting is to be someone you aren't, the casting call for an "ethnic minority" to play either or both people generated the biggest bitchfit about "Diversity Hires" and "Lowering standards" even though Henry Cavill himself doesn't look 100% like Geralt and frankly, no one in the world does, and Cavill is not a Witcher in real life. People don't really believe in that merit thing, they pretend they do as a gotcha when someone brings this topic up.
Capcom just thought it'd be easier to get the same guy voicing Goliath and tell him to put on a "blaccent" and call it a day because he heard someone nearby and imitated the voice for fun, and people don't notice/think it's good because it fits their idea of what a black guy sounds like rather than being actually voiced by a black guy.
And no, people don't actually believe the "best person is hired for the job" when it comes to roles they consider already taken by their ideal actor or group of actors. See the: "SJW Diversity Hire" controversy over the Witcher Netflix series. Yennefer looks like "this" and Ciri looks like "this", so even though the whole point of acting is to be someone you aren't, the casting call for an "ethnic minority" to play either or both people generated the biggest bitchfit about "Diversity Hires" and "Lowering standards" even though Henry Cavill himself doesn't look 100% like Geralt and frankly, no one in the world does, and Cavill is not a Witcher in real life. People don't really believe in that merit thing, they pretend they do as a gotcha when someone brings this topic up.
