Okay, I am going to say it: What's with all the Nazeem hate?
I mean, sure, he is a slightly obnoxious snob. And I am not going to judge any Skyrim player too harshly who decides to pickpocket him.
But when you search for him on YouTube, there is a sheer endless list of videos where players kill him. Is there any other NPC in the game who gets murdered by Skyrim players as often as Nazeem, and so enthusiastically? Outside of the Dark Brotherhood questline, that is - and I am not so sure even about those.
Maybe, just maybe it's because he is the first "uppity black man" the player is likely to encounter who doesn't worship the ground that a scruffy adventurer who just entered town walks upon.
Contemplate this, and maybe don't murder Nazeem on your next playthrough. Just a thought.
#racism
This. I had the same reaction in Far Cry 3. After you take an outpost, sometimes an NPC will walk by saying "This was me. This was ALL ME." as if he did literally anything to help. Walking up to a guy gripping an entire island and trafficking/drug organization in his fist, watching him squeeze it like a ballsack, and saying "thanks bud, I'll take it from here" like, bitch, the only reason you live is because I dont want to waste an entire play session teaching you your place as Inconsequential Nameless Grunt #283.