"Why wasn't The Hunger Games cast as I imagined in my reading!""

Here is an article I would recommend you to read. It talks about the movie Hunger Games and Racism

http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made

'Why wasn't The Hunger Games cast as I imagined in my reading?!' is one of the racist tweets of Hunger Game fandom during last week. While the movie grosses huge at the box office, many fans are angry about the casting since it doesn’t reveal their expectations---White Rue, white Thresh and White Cinna.

I never read the novel before and I feel all the casting are just right but my friend who read the trilogy never stop to complain how disappointed he was when he see the non-white casting. However, after I do some research for the novel, I found that the characters are explicitly described as having dark skin. The ubiquity of whiteness in popular media is so overwhelming that, in the absence of any racial signifiers, people (both white and non-white) automatically assume that characters are white. White is default. Although we may find many black characters in the movie, they always die first. Moreover, most significant characters are all white. This create an image that all the minority or non-white people participated in the movie were treat like charity. The producer need these non-dominant group to show their good racial manner but never make any acknowledgment to them.