Right...that might be coming from a rather different standpoint then! I just thought it was an observation on racial stereotyping - the poorer district 11 (which was where both characters came from if you've not seen the film as yet) seemed to be mostly black, and this was also one of the less wealthy districts where rioting kicks off.

I could kinda see how that might bother people if there was no indication in the book that these were black characters (I haven't read the book)