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Text Review “The Hate You Give” by Angie Thomas

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This particular novel/movie thug (the hate you give) was very eye opening and realistic piece especially compared to today’s society, that’s why I’ve selected it. The author killed two birds with one stone and what i mean by that is i believe his purpose was solely to raise awareness on police brutality while addressing the issue at hand. What’s the issue? is it being a brown melanated individual in america.. or is it simply uneducated, untrained, possibly racist individuals hiding behind a badge number and a lethal weapon?
This brings me to examining power/injustice and what that looks like in this novel. According to the script it seems as if police department and media hold way to much power that they can chew. For example, when Khalil got shot by police at a traffic stop for holding a hair brush that officer was placed on administrative leave which means payed leave, then further down the road was let off with zero consequences. Yet the mind blowing part about this whole incident was he got pulled over for so called “failing to put his blinkers on for a lane switch”, if that was the case why was a gun involved for something so small that ended up paying his life for the price. The image blow that has the family gathered around the table is representing the talk the parents had to have with them about how police might be a threat to their lives and what to do in the situation, as you seen the children are quite young and it’s a sad visual that they have to look over their shoulder and can’t even enjoying being a kid due to the fact their life is at risk.

Yes, this is just a movie and book to some of you but to some brown skin people this is a reality! Unfortunately a lifestyle just having to always look over your shoulder, being racially profiled, limited opportunities or seen as a threat even though brown people don’t have a history violence in the past yet the european americans do with slavery and colonization. sure it’s safe to say all cops aren’t bad, but we can’t end it there we need to weed out the bad apples and enforce better education and training because that small fix could save a life.

Contextual Presentation- A Small Place, Kincaid

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(Contextual Presentation) A Small Place, Kincaid

 

Within the book “a small place” Kincaid mentions the prevalence of corruption in Antigua. Kincaid speaks on the fact that the government ministers run brothels, steal public funds, and participates in broker shady deals. I researched this article “ the effects of political corruption on Caribbean development” by Michael W Collier and it mainly touches base on the same points on corruption. It states “Every state in the Caribbean is affected by the illegal drug trade. Some states such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, St Vincent, and St. Lucia are drug producers growing local marijuana crops. The larger role of Caribbean states are as drug transshipment points for illegal cocaine and heroin shipments bound from South American drug producing countries to markets in the United States and Europe. The mixture of corruption and drugs creates a vicious cycle of crime and violence that is engulfing many of the small Caribbean states. Corruption is what allows the illegal drug trade to flourish. Drug money payoffs to government officials, police officers, and justice system officials cause these officials to “look the other way” as the drug gangs go about their business on many Caribbean states.”

Kincaid also dives into the ugliness of tourism and points out the loveliness of the places that tend to attract tourists is often a source of difficulty for those who live there. For example “ the sunny, clear sky of Antigua, which indicates a lack of rainfall, makes fresh water a scarce and precious commodity.” To compare this article “the impact of tourism in the Caribbean” covers the same topic as Kincaid does in the book, it states “Damage to the physical-biological environment will occur with increasing densities of both tourists, and local residents. Unfortunately most rainforest in the smaller islands is already in a state of dis-equilibrium, so that unless the movement of people is very strictly controlled, this most valuable resource will degenerate very rapidly. Where a large tourist resort is allowed to extend a beach artificially the new promontory may interfere with local currents in such a way that other beaches will be eroded. New hotels mean more effluents, more pollution, more deterioration of valuable coastal waters.”

Citations:

  • Matthews, Harry G. “Radicals and Third World Tourism: A Caribbean Focus.” Annals of Tourism Research, Pergamon, 6 May 2009, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738377800066.
  • Author links open overlay panelTheo L.HillsJanLundgren∗, et al. “The Impact of Tourism in the Caribbean: A Methodological Study.” Annals of Tourism Research, Pergamon, 30 Sept. 2002, reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/0160738377900986?token=1773AECBADE381606449A2893541D4E608C0EA0E08D214E72C1C615DFB69430EBFE4622E969C506C2C9E3D43DEF54996&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20210415021523.