Reaction to Jezebel's Article

         The Hunger Games novel written by Suzanne Collins, it’s a very interesting novel that keeps the readers interest up till the end. There were many articles written about the movie based on ‘The Hunger Games’. Articles were written about fans that were being racist towards the character “Rue”. As Jezebel wrote in this article that it’s very disappointing how people are racist in today’s world. People were tweeting  about this book and the rue character that, they weren’t sad when rue died. And it didn’t kept their interest for reading this novel as soon as they found out rue is black. As per jezebel she believes that people think that black people can never be good they have to be violent, or if they are playing a character in the movie it has to be bad or villainous. She also told us about how different movies did business on their first weekend, and how “The Hunger Games” didn’t do much business. Because, for most people “The Hunger Games” movie was ruined when they saw all good character in the movie were black.  People actually believed that it would’ve been way better if the good characters like Thresh, Cinna and Rue were white. Jezebel wrote in this article that people were mad about wasting their time, emotions and tears when they cried for Rue’s death. It’s shocking that in today’s world people like this exists, who still believes on the color or cast. It’s surprising that the color of someone’s skin determines the good or bad intentions for them. If they are white they are good, they are born to be good and if they are black they have to be bad or villainous. I feel that Jezebel’s concern is valid since people came up with the questions like why black characters in the book have to be good. When now in this century when we talk about electronic media, Iphones, Facebooks, Twitter, hundreds of channels on tv that shows us different parts of the world and people from all over the world, we still live in this racist world. In this world people with these kind of racist thoughts are living between us. So what’s the difference is,in this century and the last century. Does our minds are still stuck in that time where black people were use to be slaves of white people?