"The Hate U Give" is Surprisingly Powerful and Heavy!

Racists down voting it without seeing it. They always do that to films with black casts... remember when they were trying to do it to Black Panther but it was stopped? 

The film just went into LIMITED release today and it already has terrible ratings there. Tells you a lot. Look at the Rotten Tomatoes score and Metacritic score etc... theyre high. And its deserved. 

KJ Apa was a token white dude in a movie with other white characters? He wasn't the sole white character, he was the most sympathetic and understanding though. Her so called friend played by Sabrina Carpenter portrayed a very different character than he did and he shows that there are white people that genuinely care and try to understand and listen to what minorities are trying to say. We see him trying to connect with her numerous times and trying to understand her and "see her" as he says later in the film. Meanwhile her friend was not like that at all and was not sympathetic to the black teen that was murdered, but instead was for the cop being questioned about the killing and sided with the cop instead. 

In what way was the film sloppy and pushing an agenda? The movie BLATANTLY speaks against black on black crime and makes it a motive to show black cops abusing power also, showing its not just white cops that do it. If there was an agenda black on black crime would never be brought up and all the cops would have been white men.

Yes, white people have been shot for things but not to the same capacity black men have. Black men get shot for just walking sometimes. You can deny it all you want. 

Fruitvale Station and Detroit were also true stories. This was a fictional story of things that really happen.

Her dad became ok with her dating a white guy cause of her comment about him being a good man, not a good BLACK man. She looks for character, not skin color. I think he respected that. But we never saw him interact with Chris again so what do we know? He even hated that his name was Chris.

How was the cop killing ambiguous? We see exactly what happened.... unless you mean that the cop genuinely made a mistake and didn't mean to kill an unarmed teen. That is true, but the media in reality would try to destroy him even if that were the case. 

Did you watch the film or are you an angry white man thats going based off stuff you read on the internet? Cause he barely mouthed off to the cop, he was mostly quiet. All he did was ask why the cop pulled him over when he did nothing wrong, which he didn't. Then the cop threatened him and told him to get out of the car when he wouldn't turn down his music cause, like he said, he did nothing wrong and the cop refused to answer his question. He then turns down the music when the cop starts screaming and being aggressive and gets out of the car. Starr then begins to record what is going on when the cop screams at her in a threatening way that she better stop recording him and she drops the phone out of fear. The cop walks away, he leans in the car and is talking to Starr, who begs him to go back in the position the cop left him in. He doesn't want to but eventually does but as he goes out of leaning in the window he picks up his brush and as he puts it to his own head (NO WAVING AROUND) he is instantly shot by the cop NUMEROUS times. Not once. Not in the leg or arm. In the stomach and chest. 

Now the cop may have truly believed he pulled a gun out of the car but as someone from a family of cops there are ways to make sure he doesn't without MURDERING him. Funny how I have about 70 years worth of cops in my family and not one has had to unjustly kill someone. Cause they always followed proper procedures. These new cops are scared of every little thing. 

KJ Apa (his name is NOT Archie. This isnt Riverdale) is there to show that caring, sympathetic white people DO exist. Not every white person is a raging racist or just indifferent to black people. Some genuinely care, and as someone who is friends with a white guy who is dating his first black woman (theyre together now almost 2 years), he is exactly the depiction of what "Archie" is. Thats the kind of person they are showing exist. You may know these people do exist and don't need to see it on film, but there are many people out there that don't. This film is being aimed at teenagers, and the majority of those teens that will go see it are probably gonna be black. Its good to show them that there ARE white people that would side with them and have their backs and wish them the best, as well as white people that don't, in some cases its someone that you think is your friend but the truth comes out later... 

You're bitching hard about a movie geared toward teenagers as if its fucking Schindlers List or something. 

PS I am white. Blue eyes, golden haired Michigan boy. Thank God I was raised right. 

Also, you bring up the fact that he was dealing drugs as if thats why the cop pulled him over. He had no drugs on him and wasn't dealing that moment. He was just trying to get Starr home. You're part of the problem. Also there was a reason he resorted to selling drugs. His grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and fired from her job cause she was old and sick so there was no income. He was a minor so he's not getting any big paying jobs, so he did what he felt he needed to to take care of his siblings and grandmother. Its a sad reality. 

And what are you, sir? If you are an Aryan white male also, pot meet kettle.

My point is that the film was never meant to appeal to you. If it did, good, but you are not the demographic the film cares about. Neither am I. Im a 27 year old white guy form Michigan. They aren't trying to get me to the theater. They want my 16 year old brother to go. However, seems the movie did bring some adults in.

I never said you were racist.

He argued with the cop cause he was pulled over for something that is nonsense. He did nothing wrong. You can keep saying we white people are treated the same by cops, its bullshit.

No, I am an Aryan white man that doesn't see the good white guy as a token, but just as a good white guy. That says a lot about YOU, not me. And not all the black males in the film were bad, you racist piece of shit.

I doubt that happened to your mom, cause I do stupid shit myself all the time and have only been stopped once. Good lie though. 

Arguing with a cop is not punishable by death... neither is changing lanes without signal. And him asking questions is not arguing... you wanna talk about me being white while you're defending the white cop murderer and labeling all the black males as bad and upset there was a good white guy in a film as well as basically saying ASKING QUESTIONS is arguing and deserves death... look in the mirror you white trash. You're those little boys that think the cop is always right. I know theyre human and many times wrong also.