This article is about the new movie The Hunger Games. It hit $300 million this past weekend. Alot of people are not liking the fact that there are races other than white as characters in the movie. People have been tweeting that they can't believe some of the characters are black. Alot of people think that white people are the default.
This infuriates me. Not only are people being racist and ignorant but are showing that they haven't read the books. Both Thresh and Rue were described as being "dark" with characteristics of African American people. I think it's so stupid that people can be so low as to talk bad about the characters just because of the color of their skin. If they do a good job as the character and they are described as not being white in the books why does it matter if they aren't white in the movie? I just have never understood racism. It's so pointless.
I don't know anything about the movie or the book but I'm not surprised that race has become an issue. It seems like so many things always come down to race, its so ridiculous. When are we just going to be people, a lot of people black and white or whatever color have no idea who their ancestors are, so who really knows what "color" they are.
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