The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, William C. Morris Award Winner, National Book Awar Longlist, Printz Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Honor Book. The Hate U Give, now a major motion picture, is a young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It follows events in the life of a 16-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, who is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of a childhood friend.
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Why did I wait so long to read this book??!! If people would only realize how the system has only contributed to the imbalance of life opportunities for minorities. This book breaks down the harsh realities of systemic racism in our communities in such an easy to follow story. I was invested with every page, and now I want to go watch the movie!
Such an important book at an important time in our history. The only reason it doesn’t have five stars from me?? There were a few syrupy sweet moments that were too teen for me. But this is a novel that should be required reading.
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“Right. Lack of opportunities,” Daddy says. “Corporate America don’t bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain’t quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don’t prepare us well enough. That’s why when your momma talked about sending you and your brothers to Williamson, I agreed. Our schools don’t get the resources to equip you like Williamson does. It’s easier to find some crack than it is to find a good school around here.
“Now, think ’bout this,” he says. “How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry we talking ’bout, baby. That shit is flown into our communities, but I don’t know anybody with a private jet. Do you?”
“No.”
“Exactly. Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,” he says. “You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them to survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive. The Brendas can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”
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