Looking smart and being smart are two different things.
Because in The Hunger Games, Black people were the backdrop. Not the main characters.
Because white authors have a fixation in writing futuristic totalitarian dystopian stories in which only white people exist and are being oppressed by other white people.
This person clearly did not actually read The Hunger Games. Katniss was mixed-race. She is clearly described as having olive skin. Gale was also mixed race as were most of the people in The Seam, who are clearly described several times as being the result of races mixes over hundreds of years (implied).
Rue of course was black, as were quite a few other characters.
Yep, the movies were whitewashed. Not the fucking books.
Read the books before you comment on them, mmmkay? It destroys your argument โ even if the argument itself is sound โ when you get basic facts completely and utterly wrong.
This is a pretty good representation of how Katniss looked as described in the novels:
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Yeah, not fucking white.