Date: December 6, 2024
Author: Angie Thomas
Title: The Hate U Give
Day 1 of reading and I am wowed! Spot on! This is an incredible book! So much love abounds between these pages and so much wisdom! An utterly believable story and so well told. I chuckled to myself all throughout. Top notch. So, let me start from the beginning. Actually Page 170 but who’s counting… “That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”
Day 2 of reading this book and I am over halfway through. I just went for a drive about and was reflecting on the story in comparison with a news story I remember from the time I lived in Chicago in the mid 2000’s. It was about a cop bar (a bar where cops hang out and get drunk after their shift) and one of the cop patrons was piss drunk and got caught on camera beating the bejesus out of a female bartender. The video showed the cop becoming extremely angry, enough so to jump over the bar to get at her. I don’t remember the repercussions, but I remember the police department protecting their own. So definitely I’ve heard how dirty cops can be. In saying all that I must add that I love Uncle Carlos’ role. He shows there are men and women that are good, stand-up people that truly work to protect and serve from behind their badges.
In all I would say this story is very well written and quite insightful.