this just in: stupid people surprised black actors exist!
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:52 am
apparently a bunch of people thought there shouldn't have been any non-white actors in 'the hunger games':
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-tal ... 05585.html
since they weren't explicitly labeled as 'black' or 'african american' in the book, but merely referred to as 'dark-skinned' these fuckwads all assumed it meant they were, idk, italian or something, i guess?
one person was shamed into closing their twitter account after their single tweet caught fire, and someone has since opened the same account and started posting memetic mutations of the original post:
https://twitter.com/#!/maggie_mcd11
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-tal ... 05585.html
since they weren't explicitly labeled as 'black' or 'african american' in the book, but merely referred to as 'dark-skinned' these fuckwads all assumed it meant they were, idk, italian or something, i guess?
one person was shamed into closing their twitter account after their single tweet caught fire, and someone has since opened the same account and started posting memetic mutations of the original post:
https://twitter.com/#!/maggie_mcd11