Racism sucks
Apr. 13th, 2012 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormkeeper_lovedorisMy friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
razycrandomgirl posted a link to this video and it needs to be watched. Even though it’s painful to watch because hearing about people’s racist attitudes really bothers me.
Some actual tweets mentioned in the video, in reference to The Hunger Games:
‘Rue being Black ruined the movie’.
“When I found out that Rue was Black, what happened to her wasn’t that sad.”
(I wish a plague of gout on whoever tweeted that)
“EW Rue is Black, I’m not watching.”
In shows, people kill off token Black characters all the time and it gets ignored. Black characters have been getting this sort of treatment for years. And that sucks.
I didn’t read The Vampire Diaries so I can’t comment on this girl’s remarks on that, but her video is still definitely worth a watch.
razycrandomgirl posted a link to this video and it needs to be watched. Even though it’s painful to watch because hearing about people’s racist attitudes really bothers me. Some actual tweets mentioned in the video, in reference to The Hunger Games:
‘Rue being Black ruined the movie’.
“When I found out that Rue was Black, what happened to her wasn’t that sad.”
(I wish a plague of gout on whoever tweeted that)
“EW Rue is Black, I’m not watching.”
In shows, people kill off token Black characters all the time and it gets ignored. Black characters have been getting this sort of treatment for years. And that sucks.
I didn’t read The Vampire Diaries so I can’t comment on this girl’s remarks on that, but her video is still definitely worth a watch.
