Hunger Games and Racism

          This blog is a summary and discussion based on the article “Racist Hunger Games Fans are Very disappointed”, which can be found on the Jezebel website.

                  In the article “Racist Hunger Games Fans are Very Disappointment” numerous comments were made by “The Hunger Games” fans based on racism of three characters in the film because they saw the film and found out that those characters are of Black decent. I believe that these fans that criticize on why those characters were Black are more likely to be whites because no black person would ever be racist on another Black person. Racist fans read a novel based on their reaction to the film is mainly because they themselves are White, the author is White and they expect the characters to be White likewise for Black people. If a Black person is reading a novel written by a Black author of course they would picture the characters of the same ethnicity and I bet they would reactions would be the same. Fans reactions are sometimes based on their psychological thinking because since they are racist they think only about themselves so when they read a novel the automatically picture the characters of the same nationally. From the article “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 [no] sorrow or sadness over her death” (Racist Hunger Games Fans are Very Disappointment). More comments like this can be found on the article which is very racist.