She left with her childhood friend, Khalil Harris (Algee Smith) when a violent altercation broke out. This issue is introduced the night that Starr went to a party. The movie copes with issues beyond racial microaggressions, such as police brutality. These issues are indicative of racial inequality in a post-Jim Crow era. Specifically, it demonstrated a white teenager’s ignorance via a conversation between a white and black student. THUG presents the issues of microaggressions, white privilege and other struggles that minorities experience in society in a dynamic way. For example, she would change her tone of voice while at Williamson and would be reserved to avoid anyone referring to her as things such as ghetto and provocative. There, Starr felt the need to whitewash herself. The main character, Starr, goes to school at Williamson Prep, a school outside of her community, where the population is more affluent than her own community. As a young, black female, my own mother had the same talk with me when I was just young enough to comprehend and again when I started driving. Within the first several minutes of the film, I cried because of how much it resonated with me. The conversation that was had is one that is common in African-American households. The Hate U Give (THUG) was adapted from the best selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas and the film was released almost everywhere on Oct. Starr’s dad, Maverick (Russell Hornsby) informs her how to behave if/when pulled over by a police officer – whether she is in the driver seat or not. The Hate U Give begins with Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) sitting at her kitchen table with her family. Story by Anaya Truss-Williams, Online Managing Editor
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