'Stereotypes In The Khalil I Know'

Throughout the novel, Starr talks about one-fifteen. One-fifteen is the police officer who murdered khalil even though he wasn't armed. Most of the he novel is based on Starr’s experience with police, her and her brother witnessed Maverik getting randomly stripped searched, until the police officers realized that Starr was the witness for Khalil's case, if it weren't for her they probably would have killed Maverik on the spot. Later on in the novel Starr went to Maya's house. There was still some tension between them, while flipping through the tv channels, Maya passed the news channel. Starr immediately told her to go back to the channel, while they were watching the news, officer one-fifteen was being interviewed one-fifteen was asked a lot

In the end, however, Starr simply speaks from her heart, and her passionate plea for the protesters to focus on Khalil's life instead of on his death,chants start among the crowd. Starr's blog, "The Khalil I Know", reflects on, although Khalil's death was tragic, it should not be seen as a stereotype or a statistic, but as a human being with its own hopes, fears, desires and goals . Starr addresses her statement to police officers because she knows that even the unconscious dehumanization of African-Americans leads to violence and death at the hands of the authorities. Throughout the novel the officers who were interrogating Starr, all seemed like they didn't believe her story about the night of the incident. The officers thought she was lying because Khalil is a black boy from garden heights, which is known for violence and gangbangers. “Khalili wasn't a king Lord Starr” (236) at his point in the book Devante told Starr that Khalil never wanted to sell drugs, and the only did it to keep his family safe. You can identify these problems today in the real world, there are many places around the world where there is violence and gangs and people selling