Imagine reading the book wrong, thinking a major character is not black, going online and making it public that you read the books wrong.

"Why'd you cast a black person to play a black person?"

How the comments called the actress "not cute" and "not innocent" just for being black ended me. Like how can you say that and still try to say youre not racist.

Her being black is actually really important to the plot in a way...the fact that Katniss sees Prim in Rue despite skin tone is actually a powerful message on anti-racism. She doesnt see Rue as BLACK, she sees her as a scared little girl.

The statement that "a character is black, therefore it's less sad when they die" says so many profoundly monstrous things about our society...

I love the headcannon that katniss's dad was indigenous, with his knowledge of the land he passed on to his daughter as well as his olive skin and straight dark hair while Primm favors their white mother in looks.

The funniest thing is, that Rue reminded Katniss of her sister because they both were little girls who needed someone to help and protect them. It's stupid to think that they needed to look alike so Katniss could feel sympathy towards Rue.

I like how a major argument was that because she wasn't white she wouldn't "remind Katniss of Prim." as if her personality wasn't... what reminded her of Prim...

“When I found out Rue was black her death wasn’t as sad”

The book literally described Rue and Thresh as black. Even Suzanne Collins said she meant to write them as black characters. Racists were mad that the little girl they spent weeks crying over was black instead of the white girl they had envisioned because they refused to believe the words that were staring them straight in the face.

"Did you watch Annie as a little girl?"

People must’ve completely forgotten or ignored that line about “dark skin.” I imagined Rue to look pretty much exactly like she was in the movie, aside from the hair style.

How could anyone look at Amandla as Rue and think she’s not cute, sweet, and innocent? How? She’s too pure for this world! Being black doesn’t change that!

i literally cannot fathom the fact that some people were not as sad when rue died simply because they "realised" she was black. people make me sick.

"Not the BLONDE innocent girl you picture"