![]() How the community holds protests, demonstrations, and riots. The story follows the aftermath of this event, how she copes at her mostly white private school, how her uncle, a police officer himself, responds. Nobody comes to cover his eyes or close them. Starr watches Khalil bleed on the pavement. ![]() The officer asks him to get out of the car, and when the boy tries to turn away from the cop to speak to Starr, the officer shoots him in the back. The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas, is the story of a sixteen year-old girl named Starr whose close friend, Khalil, is shot by a cop during an unjustified traffic stop. As we mourn the death of George Floyd and so many of our Black siblings at the hands of police and other white supremacist people and systems, I want to share a resource that helped me have greater empathy, love, and understanding for Black folks as they manage the daily struggles of existing in a racist system. ![]()
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