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Some people are just racist. Hunger Games is set in a dystopian world way into the future. Race wouldn’t be an issue as it is more about class and status… at least in the book.

But that’s how she’s described in the books! People need to stop finding things to be offended about.

The worst part about all of this is that people were upset because they couldn’t picture a black girl being “innocent,” as one of the tweets mentioned. It’s assumed that dark skin means dark character, which is something people believed in 1952 not 2012. Nobody can sympathize with a young black child but if she was white, she’s automatically “innocent.” It’s mind-boggling.

I personally recall that Rue was described as dark in the book, so I expected it and of course wasn’t offended by it. I’m more offended that Katniss was portrayed as white when she’s described as olive-skinned in the books… but America will become the USSR before an Hispanic-looking-person has a lead role that isn’t a whore/maid/token minority.

@Stop_That_Squirrel@xanga - People say that? Wow…

Wow.  Some people are just so racist!  I don’t think it matters that the actress is African American, or is yellow or purple or has green polka dots.  In the book, she is described to have satiny brown skin, so I imagined that the actress playing the character of Rue might have brown skin?!  I don’t feel her skin color has much effect on the overall story.  I rather judge an actor for their ability, not so much their looks.

it comes as a shock to no one that bigots are unable to read for comprehension.

Smh, Rue looks like a little angel! Whenever a movie gets as much publicity as this one, people always find something negative to talk about. But I do have to say though, I pictured Cinna as all white. Like white skin, white hair, white eyebrows, white clothes, white shoes. I don’t even know why I pictured him like that considering the book doesn’t even say it but hahaha.

i was more bothered (but not offended!) by the apparent lack of black people… the only evidence of colored people were the two people from section 11. it’s like they’re saying all the black people in panem only come from 11? (i haven’t read the books, so i have no idea if there are more colored people and they were just cast as white)

@aoiartemis@xanga - um, Cinna is coloured and he lives in the Capitol. There were several coloured people in the audience at the Tribute parade too. Rue and Thresh definitely aren’t the only ones.

Yeah. I read an article about what @Stop_That_Squirrel@xanga said as well, about how one of the really disturbing social mindsets all of these tweets show is that some people still tend towards the mindset that to be “innocent” means to be white and blonde and Anglo-Saxon, etc. Terrible.

i don’t even…what?
i can’t wrap my head around those people’s mindsets at all.

the books describe her as having dark skin. did the complainers expect a white actress with dark skin to play her? would they have liked it better if snooki played rue?

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - yeah, that bothered me too. i pictured people from the seam as being more native american than hispanic though, considering that they were from appalachia. i expected everyone to look “related” like it said they did in the book, but no such luck!

I also thought to myself, what if Rue and Thresh were supposed to be Mexican? They come from District 11, which specializes in Agriculture…

actually, we don’t know cinna’s skin color. he’s described as having brown hair and green eyes with gold flecks. that’s all.

it is disgusting, though, how many people are angry/disappointed that rue’s black. you’d think we’d be over this whole race thing by now.

Love how people have their nasty comments on the movie, when they haven’t even read the book. 

Clearly these people can never be satisfied. First off, they didn’t read the book obviously. And are they mad that Thresh is African-American too?  They’d be pissed too if there were no African-Americans in the movie I’m sure.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Olive skin doesn’t necessarily mean hispanic. Olive is more of a tint to the skin rather than relating to a certain race. I have many non-hispanic friends that can be described as having olive skin.

Dear overly obsessive Hunger Games fans: calm the fuck down about how the actors look.  Too black, too fat, too tall…Jesus, get over it!!  Unless you want to step up as casting director for the next one and then you can make all of those perfect choices.  *eye roll*

Also, this is why I always cringe when books get made into movies.  People are less likely to get their panties in a wad over how someone is described in words, but when you match a face to that description for movie, everybody gets all pissy because it didn’t match the picture they had in their head.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - I think society wants to oppress others as much as they can. They accomplish this by broadcasting the media in our faces 24/7/365 rain or shine. The majority wants to stay in power so they spit out any offensive thing they can. They do not care they are being prejudiced, just as long as they are the ones in control. People will do anything to maintain their own power and status.

It’s like our society is Hunger Games.

@danaenicole@xanga - I strongly believe people will carp on another race for sick and foolish reasons. They want everybody in the media to look/act/think/sleep like them and will whine when this does not happen. Anybody else with a hint of difference will not do. It’s like they are hoping for clones on an assembly line they can mass produce.

@daydreams_nightmares@xanga - Exactly! 

She was described as having darker skin at one point, but for some reason my mind forgot about that when she was described as being reminiscent of Prim, and like a little fairy. I had pictured a young Dakota Fanning. That’s not racist. Just different from what I expected. But yes what most of those people said was racist. Although everyone has different images in their mind for a character. Mine was just completely wrong for Rue.

I honestly never pay attention to descriptions of character’s appearance in books (unless details are repeatedly mentioned, pictured on cover, or just a basic fact of the book). So it was unexpected but not a let down at all. I really liked Rue in the movie, and Thresh and Cinna. I thought they were good choices!

My only criticism of the movie is that I had to explain a lot of things to my siblings and parents.

“OMG, I totes thought when the book meant Rue was ‘dark skinned’, like, it musta meant that dark skin  like Snooki, yanno.”

Efffffff the children of our nation.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Olive skin color is typically a descriptor for white people, it is especially used to describe the coloring of people from the Mediterranean area of Europe.  I don’t think it is ever used to describe Hispanic people (unless they are from Southern Spain).  

@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - Certain light-skinned Hispanics can be described as having olive skin (like you mentioned, southern Spain). I’m Puerto Rican and I have lighter skin for a hispanic so I certainly have olive skin. I thought olive skin was used to describe some Asians too. 

Rue was honestly my favorite character in the movie.

Because Hollywood whitewashes characters of color all the time. I’m not surprised people expected to see it happen again. I’m glad they actually did correct casting. It’s a shame how racist people still are. Oh well. They can just go watch Lord of the Rings again if they don’t want to see black people. 

@andysigdelt@xanga - Oh, I agree the color is definitely seen in Hispanics but as a descriptor in literature they don’t usually use olive skin for Hispanics.  Though, I reckon they can and should.  lol  Yes, it is also seen in Asian populations, but literature fails to use it there too.  **My kids are all half-Mexican and I would call their skin dark olive.  

@winterEnds@xanga - Sweetie, the great Adolf Hitler had an IQ far, far greater than your own. Hush.

Yet, there is a Black man in the ‘Thor’ movie. Not a word was uttered about this. A Black man in a Norse tale? Are you serious? You can thank the ‘racial equality’ groups for that crap. 

@millionofstars@xanga - Oppression via movies??????

   Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaa. You feminazis make me laugh.

@LegionOfLucifer@xanga - said the “Legion of Lucifer.” Oh okay,

honey

, consider me put in my place! 

How olds this actress, like 13? Why are people saying mean things like that?.. Well, it doesnt matter her age, either way its wrong, but there are always people to put things down because THEY didnt like it that way… People are just completely ignorant.

She was exactly as I pictured her while reading the book… these ppl are ignorant/oblivious. Did they just skip the part where Rue is described??? She was adorable, angelic, innocent and perfect. Loved her.

My only problem was the cat, Buttercup. It had one dominant characteristic and that was his yellow coat. And yet, they have a black cat. Probably the farthest color from yellow! I would have even been okay with a orange cat. The only miscast character in my opinion.

i think i’m more upset that those two peoples’ twitter accounts were deleted. i guess free speech is only valid if people like what you have to say?

I’ve never read the books, and I don’t intend to watch the movies either (the trailers don’t make it appealing).  This is probably less about racism and more about them forgetting whatever descriptive part in the book and the character not being how they pictured the character in their minds.

My face palmed when I heard about this…

As I said on facebook – I do think it’s interesting how we interpret things. Let’s be honest, only the WRITER can “truly” see what the characters look like. We (the readers) might be prone to picture people that we know, love, or are attractive to “us” depending on who/what the character we are READING is to “us”… A romantic character might suddenly look like a boyfriend to us,- a friend might suddenly look like our best friend. Or, we might picture someone that our minds are making up, but is more ideal to OUR interpretations. This however doesn’t negate what the writer wrote. If it’s going to be a movie, then something LIKE what was written would have sufficed. Dark skin could have been Black, Indian, middle eastern, etc… and everyone should have realized what they freaking read.
I don’t think it’s sad necessarily that they saw a girl who was another ethnicity in their heads (because of what I said above) what I think is sad is how they reacted to it, AND the fact that they were dumb enough to not realize that it was what the author wrote…

All that aside, as mean as I am at times (not very) I would NEVER have named a heroic character something that sounded so much like cat piss.

(And yes, I know the apparent story behind it, I still wouldn’t have done it… it’s a stupid ass name)

@Dani20elle@xanga - I thought the same thing! I had a “wtf…?” moment when they showed a black cat.

You didn’t even show the really horrible tweets. One guy even said he was sad when Rue died in the books but when he found out she was played by a black girl in the movie he didn’t care as much anymore. I mean seriously WTF?!

@hot_metalhead@xanga - The funny thing is, people who are really obsessed with the books (my sister) are aware that she was dark skinned in the book. If people are such “fans” you’d think they would be pleased with the accuracy.

I loved Rue in the books, I love Rue in the movie.. Enough said! 

The girl playing Rue is beautiful, tiny and looks so innocent with does big brown eyes.. I loved her scenes, and I think she was acting great! I just wished there were even more scenes with her  
Maybe I did not picture her just like that, well guess what I did not picture Katniss as Jennifer Lawrence, and Clove as Isabelle ect .. A film adaption cant be like everyone pictured the book to be – because we are all individuals, we think differently. 
Give the girl some credit her acting was spot on! 

I thought the decision to cast Stenberg as Rue was a good choice. As well as the other cast members for the movie. I don’t think Lawrence was too “nourished” looking nor Hutcherson or anybody else. 

hate people being racist!!

this girl is really cute and pretty.Beautiful is not owned by whites.

She was just like I pictured in the book I think a lot of people happen to skim over the part where they say she has darker skin in the book

clearly people can’t read… collins specifically wrote that rue was a “dark-skinned, dark-haired girl”. and did these “fans” not get the analogy of african americans working in the fields to district 11 being the one with agriculture?

Oh my gosh!! People need to grow up. Really? Just because someone is African American in  a movie people flip out. African Americans have the same right to play in a movie just as much as caucasian do! How would the people feel if they were treated like that? I mean its not like we get to pick our skin color. In my opinion I find African American men ALOT sexier then caucasian.

@andysigdelt@xanga - 

You are correct. “Olive Skin” can be used to describe many races across the spectrum. I def. know some Asians with Olive Skin. My co-worker is from Jordan and has beautiful Olive Skin. My boyfriend is from El Salvador and has very nice Olive Skin, as does his father.

there are more important things to complain about. people are so ignorant. they care so much about looks and that is one of the only reasons a lot of people went and seen it seriously

 Those girls are dumbasses obviously if they didn’t spend so much time tweeting they’d read the fucking book! I think they thought they were watching Twlight…I thought somewhat the same way when I was a KID when I saw Jurassic Park part III (I think) where I thought the guy’s daughter suppose to be hispanic and she was dark. I was a kid I obviously don’t think the same way, at all, it’s just a thought that came to my mind because well there wasn’t no biracial couples as a kid I saw those things in highschool and college so… where am I getting at this? *shrugs shoulders*

@xxwatchitxx@xanga - maybe they felt ashamed and they deleted it *shrugs shoulders*

I remember a similar lovingish post about hating that well way back when, about that Disney animated movie, the Princess and the frog?….  remember? Because they were shocked to see a black princess, and a possibly hispanic prince. Also Moesha’s version of Cinderella… deja vu foolios

@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - I didn’t know olive skinned applied to caucasians certainly hispanics were the image I got specially when I saw those foundation commerciasl they used light toned african americans and hispanics as an example bu *shrugs shouldres* I learned something new :^)

When i first saw this article, i hadn’t read the books yet so i didn’t finish the article, since it was swimming with spoilers. heh. But i’ve read the books now (yeah, over the course of a week) and Personally, i pictured Rue as Mexican. Which may be racist of me.

but these ppl who are all up saying how it was harder to care about her because she’s black? Yeah. That’s just wrong. She’s the same character who brings out the same emotions and care no matter how she looks.

Honestly, since I haven’t read the book for a couple of years I forgot what Rue was described as. I just knew she was smaller and younger. But I had no problem with her being black. I really don’t care. It was an amazing movie, and I have no problem with different races. People are just ridiculous and need to grow up and open their minds.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Olive skin can be described for white people too. I know a lot of white Italians and Greeks that people describe as having olive skin.

Yes I was surprised. I missed the parts in the book where they said she was dark skinned. But I wasn’t … angry. That’s a little overboard.

People are idiots. It says in the books that Rue and Thresh both have dark skin. Ignorant fools. It shouldn’t matter regardless. It’s natural to project the race you identify with onto characters but it doesn’t change who Rue is for her to be black. -__-