I personally want to read the book. It sounds interesting. I don’t see why people are protesting it. Seriously? You guys are just fine with a book about a post apocalyptic society where the children are entered in a public fight to the death, but not a book about a post apocalyptic society where the black people are the superior race and the whites are very low class? What the hell? Don’t get me wrong, I love The Hunger Games. I just do not understand people at all.
It’s less the premise than the racism in the handling, the publicity, and in the author’s commentary on her book and its reception. The blackface. The language: in discussing “coals” vs. “pearls,” which group sounds like it’s been idealized for beauty and which sounds dirty and unappealing? The nostalgia for white supremacist era standards of beauty. The unflattering depictions of black people as cruel, petty, or beastly—common negative stereotypes of black people that have been around for the last few hundred years and aren’t turned on their head just because in this book, black people are in power. The abysmal “science” behind the premise wherein black people’s physiology is so significantly different from white people’s physiology, they would be better able to survive a major ecological disaster that would involve high levels of radiation. Our bodies aren’t that different.
The list goes on…
