Racism and The Hunger Games…
I virtually never write text posts (at least not ones of more than a few words) on Tumblr. But something I discovered recently stirred sufficient emotion within me to motivate a good old vent. I recently got into The Hunger Games (yeah I know, a little late, but I still read the book before watching the film!) and thoroughly enjoyed both the book and the film (currently near the end of the second book, eagerly anticipating the arrival through my letterbox of the third).
Unbeknownst to me, before the movie had even been released, a furore had occurred online over the supposed ‘mis-casting’ of some characters. Out of curiousity (and some confusion), I decided to do a little online research as to exactly what the controversy was about. I was taken aback by what I found. Most of the relevant information, lots of it from Twitter initially, has been compiled into one handy blog on Tumblr, called ‘Hunger Games Tweets’ which makes for very interesting (albeit disheartening and often enraging) reading.
After reading the entire blog and many articles that it linked to, I felt compelled to write to the blog owner in support. This is my message…
