Hunger Games Tweets

absolutelyiris asked: I'm terrified by 1. the amount of people that are actually offended and upset that Rue is black, and 2. the amount of people who obviously don't know how to read. I fear for the future, I really do.

I fear for the future as well.  Isn’t this stuff unbelievable?

Here’s what scares me…

All these… people… read the Hunger Games.  Clearly, they all fell in love with and cared about Rue.  Though what they really fell in love with was an image of Rue that they’d created in their minds.  A girl that they knew they could love and adore and mourn at the thought of knowing that she’s been brutally killed.

And then the casting is revealed (or they go see the movie) and they’re shocked to see that Rue is black.  Now… this is so much more than, “Oh, she’s bigger than I thought”.  The reactions are all based on feelings of disgust.

These people are MAD that the girl that they cried over while reading the book was “some black girl” all along.  So now they’re angry.  Wasted tears, wasted emotions.  It’s sad to think that had they known that she was black all along, there would have been so sorrow or sadness over her death.

There are MAJOR TIE-INS to these reactions and the injustices that we see around the world today.  I don’t even need to spell it out because I know that you’re all a smart bunch.

This is a BIG problem.  Think of all the murdered children.  Think of all the missing children that get NO SCREEN TIME on the news.

It is NOT a coincidence.

THIS is the purpose of my blog… and to also point out shitty reading comprehension.  LOL