Probably, but it definitely read like an implication and I'm not really going to pretend that's okay to throw around.
I mean, it doesn't matter whether you think it's 'ok' to call the portrayal racist or not. You choose to be offended or not by someone calling it that, but it's better to recognize that nobody is saying "If you like barrett you're racist" - but that portrayal IS racist because it is a racist stereotype. Was Mr T always racist? Almost undoubtedly, but there's also a difference between a near originator of the style in the 70s and a character 30-50 years later being done in a now-stereotype. It doesn't take a lot to recognize that. I mean, I recognized Barrett's characterization as sorta racist as a teenager in 1997, so to see it be THE SAME over 20 years later is pretty shocking, and when fully voiced it comes across as way more gross to me, because it's far more realized in that context than as text with a little cartoon man.
You're both saying different versions of "I don't like this character and I want his characterization changed". Fair enough. But as for the question of whether or not this voice actor is hitting the tone of the original character? He's nailing it. I think some people are really having a referendum on Barret and not a referendum on Barret's new voice.
As noted a dozen times, Barrett's characterization was not like this in the original game, it was like this in the racist interpretation we got in English, you can retain his character without retaining the shitty parts that weren't there to begin with (And even if they HAD been in the JP version, it wouldn't exactly harm the game to fix it 22 years later).
Like, his character isn't fucking harmed if you change "Stop actin' like a damn kid. Si'down and shu'up!" to "Stop acting like a damn kid! Sit down and shut up!" but the stereotype sure starts to be fucking cleaned up along the way. And yes, I just googled that since I don't remember any specific Barrett quotes 22 years later, and holy shit some of these, how you guys can pretend he was never a problem is beyond me. "Shit! The hell you so calm about? You bustin' up my rhythm..." is cringey as fuck and always was.