The Hate U Give The school board is no longer certain fiction and novels have a place in the curriculum.Some fiction still correlates with what’s going on today, and some are escapes from reality, an escape from something that hurt you, it’s something that can heal wounds. It doesn’t have to be relatable to be relevant. Even though the school board doesn’t think that certain fiction deserves a place in the curriculum, it helps us to create different experiences. One where we may travel to a different point in time during social injustice, or to another planet with oppression. One where we may learn something from a different experience. We are subjected to the topics of others. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is primarily about social injustice, police brutality, and racial oppression. The school board doesn’t think certain fiction belongs in the curriculum, but in the book “The Hate …show more content…
Take a stand for your rights. The author is trying to explain that without the constant need for change, there will be no change. They’ll be stuck in an endless cycle of racism and oppression. In this day and age, social has become more racist and has profiled certain religions and racists deeming them murders, terrorist, and thugs, when in reality we are just humans trying to survive by any means necessary. “I wanna do something.”-”Protest, riot, I don’t care.”--”And neither did talking!””I did everything right and it still didn’t make a difference.I’ve gotten death threats, cops harassed my family, somebody shot into my house, all kinds of shit. And for what? Justice Khalil won’t get?They don’t give a fuck about us, so fine. I no longer give a fuck.” (389-390) Starr took a stand to fight back for justice. She had gone out and tried to create change after talking didn’t help her. These books need to be in the curriculum because it empowers people to take a stand and fight for
...rustrating and a painful one and leaves scars that very few teachers can understand. The problems then combine when the black students have to read this story aloud in class. This experience can really scar a black student and they can never recover. Other students are not asked to go through such embarrassment and humiliation. Even joking or tongue in cheek remarks about the history of their people are extremely poorly received by many black students. “Where rights conflict, one must sometimes supersede the other. Freedom of speech does not, for example, allow words to be deliberately used in a way that would cause someone to suffer a heart attack. By the same token, the use of words in ways that cause psychological and emotional damage is an unacceptable exercise of free speech” (Gilliam 119). She is saying this because she is protecting the rights of students.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s “School of Hate” is about a young girls experience growing up in a deeply conservative American state. Brittany Geldert has to endure the bullying that is unleashed upon her. No matter how traumatic the experience, it is ignored by the teachers. They betray Brittany by turning the other way on these issues. The wrong religious mindset appears to take paramount no matter how scandalous the ¨Bullying on LGBT¨ issues is in a modern day America. This is a great injustice to the people who have to endure this.
Everyone that has been through the American school system within the past 20 years knows exactly who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is, and exactly what he did to help shape the United States to what it is today. In the beginning of the book, Martin Luther King Jr. Apostle of Militant Nonviolence, by James A. Colaiaco, he states that “this book is not a biography of King, [but] a study of King’s contribution to the black freedom struggle through an analysis and assessment of his nonviolent protest campaigns” (2). Colaiaco discusses the successful protests, rallies, and marches that King put together. . Many students generally only learn of Dr. King’s success, and rarely ever of his failures, but Colaiaco shows of the failures of Dr. King once he started moving farther North.
Congressman Lewis’s powerful graphic memoir March highlights the role of nonviolent activism in challenging racial segregation and discrimination and effecting social change. Within the two books, March One and Two, we as readers see some of these nonviolent activities that were implemented by the protesters to show the world that nonviolence is the way to go to bring change in an unjust society and its bias laws. Some of these nonviolent activities that proved to be effective in the eyes of freedom fighters were sit-ins, marches and speeches. Even some minor activities such as going to jail for a cause was proven to be effective.
Fromm, Erich. “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” Writing and Reading for ACP Composition. Ed. Thomas E. Leahy and Christine R. Farris. New York, New York: Pearson, 2009. 258-263. Print.
This passage states that “all men are created equal; that they are endowed … with certain unalienable rights”, and the role of the government is to protect these rights of men. However, if the government fails to do so, the people have the right and duty to overthrow the government. This passage is important because it is used to justify their opposition against passive resistance. To dismantle and challenge the hegemonic ideologies of black inferiority, idleness and submissiveness that prohibited the formation of an equitable society, the text suggested that African Americans bear arms for self defense against brutality, force and violence by racist police. In order to obtain equal access to educational and employment benefits, the text written by Black Panthers recommended taking affirmative actions and advocated to overthrow the U.S. government using violence and guerilla tactics. This solution to challenge hegemonic ideologies contrasted with Martin Luther King’s solution of
The debate between silently obeying the law and loudly resisting in the face of injustice is one that has existed since the birth of this country. Those who resist see the obedient citizens as ignorant of what goes on around them. On the other hand, those that are obedient see resistors as radicals. I believe that resistance, whether it be peaceful or violent, is justified. In this paper, I will refer to works by Frederick Douglass, Stephanie Camp, and Deborah Gray White to show that resistance is important to challenge injustices, whether it be slavery in the 1800s or inaction against racism at colleges in 2015.
No one is born a racist, it has been learned and therefore can be unlearned by using words and different fictional stories to reiterate the minds of us students and those of younger generations. In the book, “The Hate U Give”, written by Angie Thomas, Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a white police officer. After reading the “ The Hate U Give”, I strongly believe fiction should not be taken out of school curriculums. While the school board may disagree, teachers should allow their students
On average, the normal human being impacts the lives of 80,000 people throughout their lives. Whether it be in a positive or negative way, it is your choice. The fictitious book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is about a new girl at school named Hannah that committed suicide and sent tapes to thirteen people explaining why she did it, and if they received the tapes then they are one of the reasons why. With this in mind, many school boards have contemplated the idea of getting rid of fiction books, such as this, because of the lack of educational value they provide. This is not a valid argument because fiction can provide meaningful education about topics such as how important impact is, the impact
Many students do not understand what happens in the real world, without fictional book students may never know what goes on outside of their own world. Every person goes through something different, and fictional literature is one way to express that. Therefore, the school board should not remove fictional text from the student’s curriculum. Some fictional texts have certain situations such as; self confidence, oppression, and racism. For example, the novel, The Hate U Give deals with this certain situations as the main character struggles to find her voice and has to face oppression and racism.
Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau each write exemplary persuasive essays that depict social injustice and discuss civil disobedience, which is the refusal to comply with the law in order to prove a point. In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” King speaks to a specific audience: the African Americans, and discusses why he feels they should bring an end to segregation. Thoreau on the other hand, in “Civil Disobedience,” speaks to a broader, non-addressed audience as he largely expresses his feelings towards what he feels is an unjust government. Both essays however, focus on the mutual topics of morality and justice and use these topics to inform and motivate their audience to, at times, defy the government in order to establish the necessary justice.
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality if often pathetic.” - Young-Ha Kim. Fiction is able to interpret reality in ways that are easier for people, especially the youth, to understand. It is able to show the truths of reality through a story that may not be 100% true, but is based on events that are. The novel, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, is based on the life of a teenage black girl who lives two seperate lives, one in the “hood” and the other at a preppy private school. When her best friend is unjustifiably murdered by a white cop, anarchy rises within the community. This novel interprets what occurs in everyday life for someone like the main character, Starr, who has to deal with gangs, police brutality,
Movement serves to inspire us all to stand up for our rights and the rights of every citizen of the United States.” Overall To Kill A Mockingbird
Voicing one’s beliefs and ideas is essential to the development of society towards a better future. However, sometimes staying silent seems better -- one wouldn’t risk looking foolish, appear as if attempting to hurt others, or turn everyone’s lives upside down. Societal assumptions and stereotypes force many people to stay quiet. Others are wary of speaking up for fear of attack. But staying silent accomplishes nothing; it only shows approval. One must think beyond societal assumptions and never stop speaking up for what will improve life for the greater good, even if it will bring hardship on oneself. Change will occur only when someone is brave enough to speak up for what is right. Eventually, others will be influenced to do the same, even
One can read books to gain knowledge and increase their level of reading but not to come across offensive language and words. Especially in school, children are censored from these books that are controversial in the classroom. Parents are the ones who have a hard time letting their children read these books because they use curse words or have morals that differ from personal values. As a parent it is their right to fight the banning of books that use language such as the “n-word” or characters depicted negatively. Presently in the classroom, “race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century” (Schultz). When children read these novels they may think that it is acceptable for them to a...