Racist Tweets Go Out Over Hunger Games’ Rue Being Black

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"Sometimes it is necessary to report on the negative as well as the positive. This weekend Hunger Games, based on the book by Suzanne Collins hot the silver screen.  It was released to rave reviews, and it grossed the third highest weekend sales receipts EVER.  But of course not every fan was happy.  Some ignorant fans were upset with the casting of Rue, who is African American in the book being described as having “dark brown skin”, by a black woman.

As Jezebel notes, many “Hunger Games” viewers resorted to sending racist tweets over the fact that Rue (played in the film by young actress Amandla Sternberg) was black.

One ignorant fan wrote,

“Why does Rue have to be black. Not gonna lie, kinda ruined the movie.”

Wrote another user, whose account has been deleted,

“Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the innocent blonde girl you picture,”

For some reason the Hunger Games has been plagued with this garbage since the poster was released last summer.  The poster showed Rue and Cinna (played by Lenny Kravitz) and elicited the same racist junk.

One fan wrote at the time,

“I thought she would be white,”

The Hunger Games is based on a novel about a post apocalyptic North America which has been replaced by a system of feudal districts.  Every year each district selects a boy and a girl to fight in the hunger games, a gladiatorial system of games where the children all fight to the death."

How are these people "fans" if they obviously haven't even read the book? 'Ignorant' and 'racist'... that's exactly what these people are.

I want to learn how to make this!

lolololol can't stop with these videos they're just 100% accurate!

The Hunger Games movie is out on Friday...?

To me, it looks boring and I've read the books before. (it was OKAY, nothing amazing in my opinion) I could be wrong though, mostly everyone else seems obsessed with it. I guess I'll have to watch it to see how it is

my mom! xD

"the korean story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and instead in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead"

this is too accurate

Alrighttt!

With the help of someone named "Dee",  I think I know where this poem could be going!

I only wrote the beginning part & edited a few things.

Drops of rose drip from her noise

onto the field of Black

among the haze and fiery glaze

she laid there on her back

Wondering why and what to do

the pain kept coming back

once again, she would go through

 moments before the attack

Why did it happen?
how could he become so cruel?
burnin' up all their vivid memories
and playing her like his little fool


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I used to hate this song, but now... it's kind of catchy
and I love her clothes... she's gorgeous!

Really like this song. :)