So, the full and honest truth is that people of colour, especially those having to live in or near white-dominated places, have to live life on edges those like me are exempt from. This could be the time where it actually happens.
But most black victims of police brutality, hatred and discrimination end up hashtags but never actual justice. As the sole witness to Khalil’s death, Starr is put on the spotlight, and she wants there to be justice, but she’s very nervous about taking the world on. This cop, badge number one-fifteen, has the instincts taught in him to see every person of colour with suspicion, to shoot first and ask questions never. Khalil ended up having a hairbrush in his hand the cop mistook for a gun, but that’s far from the sole reason for the shooting. And Khalil is shot after a small confrontation. One day Starr is driven home from a party there by her childhood friend, Khalil Harris, and they are stopped by a police cruiser, a white cop behind the wheel before he gets out.
#KHALIL FROM THE HATE YOU GIVE PLUS#
In wake of George Floyd’s murder, plus the fact that Derek Chauvin and the other three officers might actually end up going to jail, I wanted to talk about all the important things this book brings up and how they’re so important to talk and think about right now.įor those who’ve been living under a rock and don’t know of this book, we follow an African-American teenage girl named Starr Carter who’s grown up with her mother, father and two brothers in the town of Garden Heights, a place where most people outside of there say it’s the slums, the ghettos. I still decided to give it a go thinking I’d read a bit to get me invested, and even during the busy times I read it in less than three days, and even though I was aware of several of the issues presented, those issues, and several ones I’d never considered, were brought to me in ways I would end up never forgetting. I read The Hate U Give back in 2018, and I remember I was very busy with an internship and didn’t think I’d have time to start a new book for a while. (There are some spoilers in this discussion of the book.) But I will never as a writer manage to live up to Angie Thomas’ masterful, revolutionary, heart-smashing and volcanic story that is more timely than ever and deserves to be in every high school reading curriculum possible. There have been books that have made me realize different things about myself. There was a book other than this that got me addicted to reading in the first place. When I say this is my favourite book, I mean it in terms of every book I’ve read in my life.