User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/The Fallacy of The White Fang/@comment-9464517-20140422202246

The racism comparison is a lot more potent than some people realise.

I suspect Miles and Kerry wanted to include anti-racist overtones in what is said by the characters, and I feel that direct parallels can be drawn between the Faunus and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, or the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Blake taking the peaceful route points out her quasi-MLK beliefs regarding equality, while perhaps Adam is more of a Malcolm X type character who believes that continued violence will bring equality ("the ends justify the means"). But that also brings religion into RWBY (MLK was Christian, Malcolm was Muslim) and I'm sure Rooster Teeth don't want that.

I wonder if something can be made of the fact that Weiss (white) hates the Faunus, while Blake (black) is one of them. White people... Black people... Maybe I'm reading too deeply into it.