{"id":56974,"date":"2018-11-01T02:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56974"},"modified":"2018-11-01T02:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:14:38","slug":"why-the-hate-u-give-is-not-a-black-lives-matter-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56974","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018The Hate U Give\u2019 Is Not a Black Lives Matter Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why \u2018The Hate U Give\u2019 Is Not a Black Lives Matter Movie<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Los Angeles Sentinel<\/a>
\n2018-10-18<\/p>\n

Melina Abdullah<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Pan-African Studies
\nCalifornia State University, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

Patrisse Khan-Cullors<\/strong><\/a>, Cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power Now
\nLos Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Some are touting \u2018The Hate U Give<\/a>,\u2019 as \u201cthe first Black Lives Matter<\/a> movie.\u201d Red flags should have gone up the moment we learned that Fox, recently acquired by Disney, was behind the film with a massive public relations budget, footing the bill for hundreds of advance screenings with celebrity guests, marketing swag<\/a>, and heavy media saturation \u2013 especially in Black markets. We might also wonder about the choice to have Audrey Wells<\/a>, a White screenwriter whose credits include \u201cUnder the Tuscan Sun<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Truth About Cats and Dogs<\/a>,\u201d adapt an urban Black novel for the screen. Angie Thomas<\/a>\u2019 New York Times<\/em> bestseller<\/a> on which the film is based swapped out the book cover that originally pictured a chocolate-colored Afroed girl, for the light-skinned young actress, Amandla Stenberg<\/a>, who plays the lead, Starr Carter, in the film. Stenberg\u2019s braids hang long as she holds a placard that reads \u201cThe Hate U Give,\u201d a reference to Tupac\u2019s<\/a> THUG LIFE acronym (The Hate U Give Little Infants F*cks Everyone). Tupac, Hip Hop icon, poet, and son of a Black Panther<\/a>, was intentional with his language. THUG LIFE, tattooed across his mid-section, was a scathing critique of the White-supremacist-capitalist system that treats Black and poor children with contempt, depriving them of resources, and ultimately causing the whole of society to suffer the consequences. The film betrays that analysis by entrenching old tropes. \u201cThe Hate U Give\u201d makes Black people primarily responsible for their own oppression. The film asks viewers not to challenge a policing system that kills Black people at least every 28 hours, but to focus exclusively on \u201cBlack-on-Black crime,\u201d even when unarmed Black boys are killed by White cops…<\/p>\n

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Why \u2018The Hate U Give\u2019 Is Not a Black Lives Matter Movie Los Angeles Sentinel 2018-10-18 Melina Abdullah, Professor of Pan-African Studies California State University, Los Angeles Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power Now Los Angeles, California Some are touting \u2018The Hate U Give,\u2019 as \u201cthe first Black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,23674,20],"tags":[20697,29049,29047,18738,29044,29046,29048,29045],"class_list":["post-56974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-amandla-stenberg","tag-angie-thomas","tag-audrey-wells","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-los-angeles-sentinel","tag-melina-abdullah","tag-patrisse-cullors","tag-patrisse-khan-cullors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56975,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56974\/revisions\/56975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}