But it should not have to be this way.Īfter the death of Khalil and the death of Starr’s friend Natasha (Heaven Hightower) at a younger age, Starr decides that she no longer wants to keep the violence in her community a secret.
With the given circumstances of Starr’s family and the current state of society today, it is logical and understandable that Maverick gave this talk to his kids. Teens of color may understand what it is like to have been given the talk and fear for their future. Parents of color in the audience may resonate with this as they may have had to give similar talks to their children. She knew what to do, because she was “nine years old when got the talk.” This is referring to the talk her father, Maverick (Russell Hornsby), gave Starr and her siblings, explaining what to do when getting pulled over. It was at this point that the officer realized that Khalil was holding a hairbrush, not a gun.īefore Khalil was shot, Starr had immediately put her hands on the dashboard at the sight of the police headlights in the rearview mirror. The officer shoots Khalil, killing him, then handcuffs and pulls Starr out of the car to sit on the road next to her dying friend. While the officer is checking Khalil’s ID, Khalil, who was instructed to keep his hands on the roof of the car, leans back through the car window to check on Starr, then reaches down to his seat to pick up a hairbrush. After a few minutes, a police officer pulls them over for not signalling a lane change. She is driven home by her childhood best friend Khalil Harris (Algee Smith). Inevitably, Starr’s two worlds collide after a party in her neighborhood, where gunshots are heard. Starr changes the way she speaks and her behavior to fit in with her friends on either side. She believes that she must keep her two personas as far away from each other as possible, as she is seen as “one of the white kids” to her Black friends in Garden Heights and also merely “the non-threatening Black girl” to her white classmates at Williamson Prep. Starr Carter is a sixteen-year-old student living in two worlds. NAACP Image Award-Winning drama for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, “The Hate U Give,” starring Amandla Stenberg, offers its audience a more realistic perspective as to how white privilege is prevalent in the United States, and how staying silent only worsens the results of oppression.
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