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What were you saying? Racism doesn’t exist anymore? Post-racial, Obama era, blah, blah, something…?The Hunger Games Tweets Tumblr has recently exposed a ton of outrageously racist Twitter postings by “Hunger Games” fans regarding the casting decisions. Share this on Facebook to let people know racism exists — and we need to stop it.

Sara Critchfield

May 8, 2012

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