Adrian Haley Recently hundreds of people took to twitter to express their anger at the character of Rue in The Hunger Games being portrayed by a black actress. When media outlets subsequently pointed out that the character was black in the book as well, those people apparently took their righteous indignation elsewhere. How else does one explain the sudden problem with Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury in The Avengers? Sure, Fury is white in the comic books, but Jackson first showed up as the character in Iron Man — way back in 2008.
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