Extra Credit: Hunger Games and Racism

 The report “Racist Hunger Games Fans Are Very Disappointed" by Dodai Stewart demonstrates how certain Americans really felt after watching the movie and having the characters that they imagined turn out to be something they didn't expect. Apparently many people took to social media websites to voice their disappointment in movie executives casting African American actors for the roles of Rue, Cinna and others in the story. Although the roles were filled by great actors including the very famous Lenny Kravitz people over looked the acting and in fact demonstraight the deep rooted racial issues that are so often not talked about in America. Why couldn't Rue be black? Why was that such a disappointment when all the evidence in the novel led to that? How could something so meniscal actually "ruin" a movie? I think these are things that even in modern day America are real front and center issues. Even in a day when our President is black people are unconsciously being racist. The fact that when we think of an angel the first thought that comes to our head is a white skinned blonde hair baby is actually really sad. Just like people angels and children come in all shapes and sizes. I think just by reading this article people re-evaluated their own unconscious racial thoughts. This article gives us the opportunity to see that innocence is NOT depicted by the color of skin rather than who the character actually is and why you fell in love with them.