Thursday, April 05, 2012

Tired, and racists

Still disgusted that racists are upset that the character of Rue in The Hunger Games is played by a perfectly adorable little black girl -- just as described in the book. I haven't seen the movie, and won't see the movie, because I've read the book and that's always a recipe for disappointment, but this is just a sad commentary on the fact that racism isn't dead even though there's no reason for it to exist in today's America.

Dang I'm tired today. Haven't been getting enough sleep, I guess. Luckily the project at work is winding down to the point where I can work normal hours now, I was having to work off hours because I had to do some scheduled service outages and you can't do that while people are at work, and the result was late nights and disrupted sleep routines. Grr.

-- Badtux the Tired Penguin

6 comments:

  1. For the fact of racism existing, see the historical pictures being posted at Bartcop.com, under the title "What they mean when they say 'We want our country back.'"

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  2. I don't need the photos, Vilstef. I'm old enough that I remember those days first-hand. For the younger set, however, I suspect that might be an eye-opener...

    - Badtux the Elderly Penguin

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    1. I've never seen signs like that, I live to far north. I've certainly seen racism practiced on Blacks, Indians and any convenient minority. We are long past the time for this 'wisdom' to vanish unmourned.

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  3. FWIW, folks like me who work on those systems appreciate what you guys do

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  4. Did you like the book?

    Re: movies -- LOTR was not a disappointment. The Harry Potter movies has not been disappointments, and HBO's GoT (not a movie, I know, but still) is kick-ass awesome.

    By the way, I think Jon Snow survives.

    Cheers!
    JzB

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  5. JzB, the first book was great. The remaining two books of the Hunger Games series were "merely* very good. Definitely recommended.

    I was afraid to go to the LOTR movies, and I haven't read the last few tomes of the Harry Potter saga because I don't actually buy paper books anymore, it's all ebooks nowadays because I just don't have space for paper books, and Harry Potter wasn't available as an ebook until recently, so I didn't go to see the movies because I didn't want to ruin the book.

    And Jon Snow doesn't survive. He's dead. Well, temporarily. People seem to have trouble staying dead there...

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