It's about what happens when racialized and marginalized communities stand up for their rights in any visible way whatsoever. The Hate U Give is about institutional racism and a broken criminal justice system where the police can violate the civil rights of thousands of people publicly and openly with almost no consequence at all. See, I don’t know what it's like to be black in America, but I have 18 years of experience in being a brown Muslim woman and I can tell you this: being in the minority is like being stuck behind a glass wall and whenever an injustice occurs, you breathe onto it and you write it in HUGE letters in the condensation.but nobody seems to really see it. A reality in which justice is dead and the police kills black youth with impunity.Īnd so many other real stories I read about that truly made the atoms making up my body have enough of being anchored to this awful reality in this human form and wish to move on, become a light wave or something. A reality in which on any given day, some innocent person like Tommy Le can get shot hours before his high-school graduation because he was carrying a pen, or another innocent person like Sandra Bland can get into a car, and then three days later she is going to end up dead in jail, or a five years old child can get shot and wounded after the police kills his mother. In all honesty, The Hate U Give has made me realize just how simply clueless I was as to the continuing day-to-day actuality of systemic racism in America. “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
It was truly incredible and I have SO MUCH to say about it I wish I could actually just send everyone a howler containing the entire script of this book instead. This book has made me feel every single possible emotion at the same time. “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?” In all honesty, The Hate U Give has made me realize just how simp When you're reading books like The Hate U Give, you're reading someone's decision against silence.
When you're reading books like The Hate U Give, you're reading someone's decision against silence. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.more What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.īut what Starr does-or does not-say could upend her community. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. Kha An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here. An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.
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