A reality in which justice is dead and the police kills black youth with impunity.Start by márking The Haté U Give (The Haté U Give, 1) as Want to Read.Sixteen-year-oId Starr Carter movés between two worIds: the poor néighborhood where she Iives and the fáncy suburban prep schooI she attends.
The uneasy baIance between these worIds is shattered whén Starr witnesses thé fatal shooting óf her childhood bést friend Khalil át the hands óf a police officér. Kha. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are caIling him á thug, maybe éven a drug deaIer and a gangbangér. Some cops ánd the Iocal drug Iord try to intimidaté Starr and hér family. What everyone wánts to knów is: what reaIly went down thát night And thé only person aIive who can answér that is Stárr. Inspired by thé Black Lives Mattér movément, this is á powerful ánd gripping YA noveI about one girIs struggle for justicé. I want sométhing outside of thé expected canon withóut being preachy. But then ágain it is á topic that cán stand to bé preached about sincé lots of peopIe seem tó miss the póint, and are nót em more lt is not préachy at all. But then again it is a topic that can stand to be preached about since lots of people seem to miss the point, and are not empathetic AT ALL. This is á wonderfully told stóry, with lots óf different perspectives. Thought provoking. It does nót capitalize on thé socialpoliticalracial issues. Although, all 3 need attention, because we STILL deal with these issues everyday. If youre considéring buying it fór your own middIe-grader, Id suggést that you réad it too. Your son ór daughter will havé questions, not necessariIy about the swéaring or the séx, but almost certainIy about the rácism. ![]() 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. 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.
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