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Microaggressions And Prejudice In The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas

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"If he was treated that way because of his ethnicity, that will make me madder than heck." is what president bush himself said when he heard about how a secret agent that was removed from his flight due to him being of arab descent.In the book The Hate U Give, the author Angie Thomas shows us how microaggressions and prejudice can affect a community as represented in the abbreviation mentioned in the book T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. Because of this Angie Thomas also shows that fear can limit people from being themselves, preventing them from speaking out to say the truth after experiencing something like racial profiling. The main character, Starr,is a representation of the microaggressions and prejudice that minorities face on a daily basis. There are comments that people make that may sound normal to themselves but may be offensive to people due to them being based on stereotypes. One example is the microaggressive comment that Hailey said to Starr while playing basketball. “Dammit, Starr!” Hailey yells, recovering the ball. She passes it to me. “Hustle! Pretend the ball is some fried chicken. Bet you’ll stay on it then” in later dialogue we see that “Her eyes widen. “Oh my God. You …show more content…

Starr states to Maverick, “Kenya called me a coward for not speaking out… After seeing what they did to you, I don’t wanna say shit now.”(Thomas 200) … “I heard Starr-Starr the witness they been tal King ‘bout on the news. Hope she know to keep her mouth shut when she supposed to… So people gotta be careful when they tal King to the DA. Wouldn’t want them to be in danger ‘cause they ran their mouth.” (Thomas 273). These conversations show that fear restricts people from being able to say something when they are

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