When this was first brought to my attention, I was utterly in shock! Though I have not seen the movie yet, I was so fascinated by this outright racism. The characters Rue and Thresh are described in the book as having "dark brown skin" but some bigoted fans would object to that. A few quotes I've found were "Why does rue have to be black not gonna lie kinda ruined the movie." Another, "Why did the producer make all the good characters black?" And, "Why is Rue a little black girl? Stick to the book, dude." Even typing those words makes me cringe. This is BLATANT racism, and it's NOT okay. There are thousands more tweets just like that, and it makes me wonder, has America really changed that much in the views of color?
http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/hunger-games-fans-have-racist-debate-over-stars-playing-rue-thresh-2012263
Above is the link of where I started looking this up. Check it out, let me know how you guys feel!Sorry I couldn't get it to be clickable, so just copy and paste into your browser.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/03/hunger-games-and-trayvon-martin.html
ReplyDeleteYou gotta check out the above link, Nicole. Ties together the Martin case with the racist comments about characters in The Hunger Games.