The casting of black actors in "The Hunger Games" has spurred some negative tweets. The frenzy has focused on three characters in particular: Rue (Amandla Sternberg) and Thresh (Dayo Okeniyi), the child tributes from District 11, as well as Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), the stylist assigned to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), the movie's archer-heroine. In a curious twist of reading comprehension failure and racism, a few tweets have made the public rounds: "why does rue have to be black gonna lie kinda ruined the movie." "Kk call me racist but when I found out rue was black her death wasn't as sad. #ihatemyself." "Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the little blonde innocent girl you picture." The casting issue surfaced late last year, after the character posters were released. Racialious guest contributor noted the reactions posted on "The Hunger Games" Facebook page: "Everything from the innocuous 'She's not how I pictured her' to 'I was all sad and like 'she's black!'" Cinna's race isn't clearly detailed, but he differentiates himself from the ornately attired stylists by being simply clothed in black, wearing gold eyeliner, and having green eyes and cropped brown hair. The Facebook response to Lenny Kravitz's casting prompted comments such as "Wtf cinna is black?????!!!!!!!(just saying wht everyone is thinking)lol" and "Umm I got the impression Cinna was what..."
Who knew the fandom of young adult fantasy fiction was the safe harbor of racists??:smt100 Just sad. And the sad thing is, I think this is as good as it's going to get for this country in terms of race relations. I can deal with that, since as the oldheads in my family like to say, 'it's way easier being a BM today than it was yesterday,' but I still kind of expected.....more. I mean shit, I read Judy Blume and S.E. Hinton as a kid and I NEVER tripped because the main characters weren't Black.
the kicker is that, in the book, one was described as dark skinned, and the other didn't have a designation and could have been black or white those mofos didnt read the book at all, and thought races were altered or some dumb shit
Unfortunately those are the bigoted mentalities Hollywood is more inclined to cater to more often than not.
I think a lot of them misread the book because thinking back to when I read it I thought that the Rue character was white since the main character said that she reminded her of her sister who was a blonde girl. So that part I get. The rest is bs.
