NEWS FLASH: In the future, we may not all be white!
The cast for the movie of The Hunger Games has been known for a while, but a certain segment of the fandom is having a hard time coming to terms with something about it: Namely, that Rue and Thresh, both described in the book as dark-skinned, will be played by African-American actors. Worse, so will Cinna, whose ethnicity isn't mentioned, and therefore must be white.

Hunger Games Tweets has been keeping its eye on some of the worse elements. Warning: Some extremely vile, racist language. Did you know that sweet, innocent girls must always be pale and fair-haired? And gay men can't be black? I'm telling you, it's an education.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go vomit.

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ekaterinv
2012-03-09 08:06 am UTC (link)

Personally, I also think that Suzanne Collins could’ve done a better job introducing these characters. She missed the fact that the majority of her readers would need to have it HAMMERED IN that they were black. Not just delicately mentioned

Um. WTF. It's the author's fault that some of her readers can't read? (I do not believe it's "the majority" just because of some assholes on Twitter.)

And I can see that going over real well. Treat the people who aren't white as "other" by dwelling on it constantly. Yeah, what a great idea.

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	phosfate 2012-03-09 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	I think that might have been sarcasm at the expense of Ms Collins' readers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ekaterinv 2012-03-09 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	Probably. My internet sarcasm detector is busted. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2012-03-09 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, it's hard to tell in context. I'm just hoping, because it's been a long week. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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