Doggonit, ya found me out! Me and my racist ways with my high-falutin’ use of words and whatnot. I can’t wait to talk about this at the next chapter meeting of The Black Round Table (Kinda like the Algonquin Round Table with less Dorothy Parker).
Usually we start the meetings with an invocation led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright (in Arabic) followed by a pledge of allegiance to Obama’s original birth certificate (All of us Black radicals have seen it. Obama’s Cuban, by the way, not Indonesian. Hence his bent toward socialism). Yeah, our agenda’s pretty packed, but I’d love to bring up your comments during our open question time, when we’re not busy coming up with ways to be the most egotistical, overly sensitive, psudo intellechual sudo intellektual wannabe-brainy, racisty racists ever.

- JEP

American Blacks are absolutely ridiculous, and your blog is an extension of it. You literally see racism under every bush. Inside every crack. Did you see that!?!! the momentary flash of hidden racism??. ahhhhh!!!!! the boogie man!

Blacks literally have ’round table’ discussions wither or not something about something regarding something might possible be racist about something they heard being talked about someone way over somewhere the someone heard someone else say they heard. I mean is it so friggin tired.
Be the Hero?
Are you out of your mind? Its a movie about Greek Culture and Greek History. Do you even know what any of that is? Where it comes from. The depth in which these stories are recorded and cataloged going back 3000+ years?
And you’re moaning about the Black kid not being the “Hero”??
And they way you write your blog is so obvious. How you attempt to ‘fill’ in your racist complaining with gibberish. So amateurish. Its like a little kid crying about his toy… but attempting to act like he isnt crying but using proper english in an attempt to trick the reader by making them think you’re sophisticated and enlightened.
Just stfu.
These are the same idiot who cried for months about the movie 300 being ‘waaaaaaaaacist’
Go fuck yourself. YOU’RE the real racist. YOUR racism screams through every word you write. Your pathetic attempt to ‘hide’ it with an amateurish academic writing style is pathetic and doesnt work.
Not. That said. Go ahead and call me a racist for pointing out your racism. With your tiny little brain and your PREDICTABLE reply.

I honestly think they make people like you in factories. Because you are predictable across the board. Your emotional reactions to any giving situation can be seen coming from miles away. Its child like. Grown children attempting to sound ‘logical’. What a complete and total joke. Your blog sucks. Your article sucks. Your writing style sucks. Your point of view is a joke. And you’re a sensitive little black racist. You’re egotistical. You think you should be ‘king’ of the world. You use words like ‘birthright’ that show exactly where YOUR mind is situated.
I mean you’re clear as day to me. But im sure you get away with your bullshit to others who choose to ignore you in life. So stick to your little blog here buddy and your imaginary world of hollywood images and movies scripts.

The only black character who plays a pivotal role is a camp counselor named Charlie Beckendorf. In Riordan’s books, Beckendorf is one of the children of Hephaestus, god of the forge. (I couldn’t help but notice that in the movie, one of the twelve gods is black; I assume, of course, that this is Hephaestus. I can’t remember where, but I’m sure that I’ve seen him portrayed as a black man somewhere before. Comics, maybe?)

Thanks!

- JEP

I GOT what you were saying. I GOT what Blaster219 was saying. What I cannot be silent about anymore is how he decided to speak for the author by stating “Like most things, race was simply not an issue, nor was it deemed important enough either way for RR to raise when describing characters.” Now, unless you are the author, that’s a mighty big assumption. And to say that like most things race wasn’t an issue smacks to me of someone in denial about the racial problems and history of race relations that still seep into everyday life. If, after seeing how a publisher and a movie studio decided to cast three non-minorities in the Last Airbender (really four – Jessie McCartney was originally in the movie but it was said he dropped out due to scheduling issues) and I still have to see Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima’s fake smiles (a bit of history here, Uncle and Auntie was used so as not to address blacks formally as Mr., Mrs., or Miss) add it all up and while some author’s choose to “ignore race” for whatever reason, you best believe there’s some of us who have no choice but to deal with it head on in order to live. Sorry Jay, I just had to get that out.

In fact, I was also feeling somewhat sarcastic, but you seem to have absorbed the gist of both sides and come out the better person for it, so I’ll just close with an opportunity to reaffirm my enthusiasm for your work here.