Reading Response

I liked Jazmyn’s reading, which was a chapter from “The Hate You Give.” I enjoyed reading this because I’ve seen clips from the movie on social media, but I’ve never seen any parts of the book, so it was interesting to get to see Starr’s internal monologue. Reading this chapter made me really want to read the whole book, as well as watch the movie. There are depictions of racist comments, and these passive aggressive comments are things that I see occur in real life. I appreciate how the book/movie both have accurate depictions of racism, what it looks like, and how it affects people. I’ve never read the book or seen the whole movie, so something this passage of reading pointed out that I didn’t know before was that Khalil was unarmed when the cop shot and killed him. At his funeral they announced this because this is something the cops were trying to hide, knowing that it made them look even worse. Readings like this always remind me how much more training I think we need to have for police officers. Cops still shoot and kill black people all the time with no reason. Cops should be trained to not shoot unless they or other civilians are in serious danger, and even then, they should be taught to shoot to injure, not shoot to kill. I know these are things that probably are taught a little bit, but they are not enforced nearly enough