Mav is a character in THUG that cares about the well-being of his community and believes jobs are needed among his community.

Getting the cops arrested was right as they commited the crime but that doesn’t make up for the millions of people that are racist and prejudice and kill the black community.

This point relates to THUG because the majority of the black community in the setting of THUG are forced to live in garden heights because they are denied opportunities for better accommodations.

This ties into The Hate U Give because the issues that the Black Panthers are trying to address is still being shown in the book. We see the contrast between Garden Heights and the neighborhood where Uncle Carlos and Chris live, and how racially divided the two neighborhoods are.

This correlates to THUG because the setting (housing) of the book plays a big role in showing the reader how some people in the black community live. For example they have to deal with poor living conditions, violence, drugs, etc.. due to the fact that they aren’t given opportunities.

This made me think of all the homeless people that live in the streets,and doesn’t have a house to live in.

If the black community does not receive good housing, then they should be given land and government aid so they can build decent houses for its people. I think why they believe this is necessary is because they deserve to have a place to live and have shelter

I don’t know enough about this topic to have commentary.

This means that Black community wants to have good houses to live.

In the book, Starr puts a picture and story of Emmit Till on her Tumblr, which Haley is repulsed by, and unfollows Starr because of it. She feels uncomfortable seeing the horrible things that had been done to African Americans, but that sort of thing needs to be taught in schools because it’s the only way we can address the systems that allowed it.

This connects to THUG because the schools that are both presented in the book don’t teach anything about how black people throughout history have impacted America. Also schools in Garden Heights barely have resources to teach there students or prepare them for there future.

they want proper education for their community, so they learn about the their history.they want history that teaches them their history too.

They don’t want Black men to be apart of the military due to the fact that they are constantly being oppressed by a racist government. They find it odd that people that don’t even protect them want them to serve and kill others that haven’t hurt or opposed a threat to the black community.

Starr’s mother goes through sort of a similar struggle, when her brother, Carlos, talks about his fellow police officers. She doesn’t understand how Carlos can stand up for Officer 115, who shot Khalil largely because he was black. It’s a similar struggle because Uncle Carlos is risking his life for the same people that might not value his life as much as they would a white man.

black people should not be forced into the military by a racist government that does not protect them. they will not kill other people of color in the world who like black people are also being victimized by their white racist government.

This connects to THUG quite directly. A significant event in the book is based exactly off of police brutality and a black person having a weapon. I also believe that people who have licensed arms should not be penalized for carrying or using them.

Black people should be allowed to defend themselves and use weapons if necessary.

In other words, what this is trying to say is that police brutality should be stopped because it’s taking lives of many innocent African Americans. It’s also trying to say that they can carry guns around because on the second amendment of the constitution, it is stated that everyone has the right to bear arms. And therefore, all black people have the right to carry around guns for self defense.

The phrase #7 stood out to me because police brutality hasn’t stopped and we are still fighting so things can change. I have seen how police abuse of their power against other, how they kill people saying that “they were suspect” only because of their appearance or for any other minimum reason.

Black people should be freed from all prison and jail systems and be given a fair and just trial

Yes this is really important. Mass incarceration is a growing problem in the U.S. Something that contributes to this problem is incorrect representation and unfair trails. Khalil was not being represented as a victim but rather a drug dealer.

this kind of connects to how Mav was in prison for three years doing someone else’s time. However he did that to get out of the gang he was in.

In other words, this is basically saying that every black person should be released from jail because their trial was unfair.

This makes me think that a lot of people were arrested by an unfair reason, because all they wanted to do was to be free, existing and not causing any harm to anyone, but for white people or racist people this was a sin made from Black people. White thought that Black people didn’t deserved to live, so they want to put every single African American in jail.

Yes, this is important to release all the Black people who were accused of something and going to jail for that. However, what about the people who actually committed a crime, In the text it says that all the Black people should be released from Jails. What about the people who have actually done a crime, there will always be criminals from every race, so saying that “All Black people should be released from the many jails” is both a good and somewhat of a bad thing.

They believed that black peoples right to a fair trial was violated so they want people from their communities to judge them fairly.

If this happened in THUG, then I think that the cop would be arrested and charged with murder, as he should.

This is saying that when in court, black people should be tried by their own peer group. This is also trying to make the point that black people get unjust trials in courts basically all of the time.

this connects to the hate you give because in THUG, the black community wants justice for Khalil and all the other African American people killed by police

This connects to THUG because in the book, they want justice for Khalil and once they do, there will be peace.

They want to be able to choose their own will. The government should protect black people the same way they do everyone else. The call back to the Constitution shows how the treatment of black people in America is Unconstitutional. This connects to THUG as Starr and her community want the police officer who killed Khalil to be held accountable.

This is connected to THUG in “The Hate You Give” because the protesters were protesting in order to bring justice for Khalil and want the same treatment that a white man would get if he was shot and killed like Khalil

They are demanding, basic things that white people get. They are quoting the declaration of independence, and saying that what they are doing, and what they stand for, is justified by the declaration