Shouldnt people that are mad that Rue in Hunger Games was black be more mad that their imagination sucks?

Thanks for making my morning. I'm bored at work and just had to stifle a laugh!

BTW, when I was a kid, I once read a book with the term "colored" and in my childish mind I was picturing this person with a patchwork of various skin tones all over their body! (I'm a gen-xer and that word probably fell out of popularity before I was born.)

Who is angry over the fact that Rue is black? In the book it said she had dark skin, so that could be taken in several different directions. I personally thought of her as more Native American than anything when I was reading, but the fact that Suzanne Collins simply said she had dark skin lets everyone come up with their own interpretation of how Rue looked. The director and all who worked on the film just chose to make Rue black because it was how they interpreted her.

My only problem with the film was that Haymitch might as well have never been in the film. Woody Harrleson did a sloppy, horrible job at portraying Haymitch and it left me feeling rather disappointed.

I think some people think that it was a racist stereotype that the agricultural workers were black like during and after slavery times. I wonder if they would be happier if she was Hispanic, like many migrant farm workers are now. I think that Collins made the descriptions fairly vague so that they could figure out the casting later. I think that this issue influenced them to cast an African-American in the role of Beetee instead of someone Caucasian or Asian, like he is described in the books.