Racist Hunger Games Fans Are Disappointed

Casting Cinna, Rue and Thresh with black actors has made a lot of fans very disappointed. Cinna, who was not really depicted in the book, could be any ethnicity, so it really doesn't matter. Suzanne refers to Rue as having "dark brown skin and eyes" along with Thresh. This depiction could be a really tan person, Native American, etc but Gary Ross chose to cast black actors. I didn't think anything about that when watching the film, personally, I think the actors fit the characters pretty well. Apparently other fans of the book didn't think the same though; here's the article.

Oscars 2012: An effort to be inclusive

This article from the LA Times notes the noticeable attempt by the Academy at creating a more culturally diverse atmosphere for the awards ceremony.

It was interesting to me that they only mentioned the African-American side of the diversification we saw because it was more than the black community that saw some spotlight.

Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film which was the country's first Oscar win. Ever.

While I agree with the article in that the award ceremony did seem to obviously embrace the black community a little extra than usual, cultural diversity is not synonymous with African-American people.