Here you will find a very interesting article on the racism of the character Rue from the Hunger Games trilogy. Something I was completely oblivious to until today, it also devastated me to read that one viewer claims that they weren't as upset when Rue died in the film because she was dark skinned, despite her being dark skinned in the book and me weeping like a child during both the book and film scenes of her death, with the same applicable to the other tribute from her district named Thresh.
Rue - The Hunger Games Film
However it did make me realise that I, despite being of Caribbean decent, am quick to assume that most characters are Caucasian unless stated otherwise. And that since I was a little girl my stories have been filled with Caucasian girls with blonde hair and blue eyes. And my one African character was a boy who worked for the Witch Queen Hecate as an essential slave!
Thresh - The Hunger Games Film
I've decided to make an effort to read more literature featuring People of Colour and writing about it too, as I believe that they seem to be over looked, whilst black people in film are a much more sensitive issue as the film industry has a larger consuming audience, not much seems to be said about black people in literature, Asian people in literature, Chinese people in literature, or any ethnic minority.
Quite frankly I find it a little disturbing and I'm disappointed, mostly in myself.
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