The Ban of The Exceptional Novel: "The Hate U Give"

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas has become a rising issue among many school boards. While showing opinion towards the black lives matter movement. Many people are starting to have realization of this problem and have started standing up for their rights, not only for themselves but for others. In fact, The Hate U Give has positive effect towards society, and can remind people about problems that are happening in our world, and the reality of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

There has been a wide variety of opinions towards The Hate U Give. Most of the complaints towards the book were from the parents (Gomez). For where, many parents say the book was being pervasively vulgar, used profanity, showed drug use, and offensive language (Pekoll). The school board quickly took action towards the feedback and decided to ban The Hate U Give in the Texas school district. (Pekoll). The district superintendent, Lance Hindt only banned the book because of “pervasive vulgarity and racially-insensitive language” (“intellectual freedom. blog, 18 Dec. 2017”). Many people were not delighted with the decision, and decided to take action.

Many students began to rise up towards the action, and decided it was time to make a stand. A student named Ny’Shira started the petition of gaining The Hate U Give back into the school districts libraries (Gomez). In fact, the petition was a huge success. Ny’Shira received over 4,000 signatures (Gomez). Therefore, The superintendent had no other choice but to come to terms (Diaz). The students started the petition because they believed the superintendent had no specific reason for banning the book (Gomez). A young woman named Abby Berner claimed that the superintendent only banned the book because of the parents point of view (Pekoll). The superintendent eventually came to terms by bringing the book back to the school boards, but students would have to get permission from their parents to check out the book (Pekoll). The problem was eventually solved but still there are many people who disagree with bringing The Hate U Give back into the schools libraries (Pekoll). Certainly, the feedback was not done yet.

The Hate U Give, has been leaning towards the Black Lives Matter perspective. “The book the Hate U Give was and insult to the black lives matter movement” (“intellectual freedom, blog, 18 Dec. 2017”). The book can have a positive effect in influencing young teens, about issues they may not be aware of. Some reasons are, it will remind people about racial inequality, it can set examples, and people will become more aware (Pekoll). “Recourses say, it will have a number of sides of controversial issues so that students can have an opportunity to develop” (“intellectual freedom, blog, 18 Dec. 2017”). There is more research facts to support the evidence. Profanity in the Hate U Give, is not the main issue to worry about. The more important part is the message that the book is trying to convey. In The Hate U Give it shows the main character Starr, witness her best friend get shot by a police (Diaz). Without a doubt, this shows the reality of the inequality people show to African American lives.

The black Lives matter movement has becoming more of awareness from many areas. Whereas, different generations may not have the same awareness towards the movement. Without influence for example, The Hate U Give, people won’t have Realization about the real life situation. In any case, the book sets an influence towards other readers, and shows how they have the right to stick up for themselves. It has an impact on many young readers lives that needs to be shown at a young age so that the future generations have hopes on a society.