There are many, many, many books about injustices against African Americans. I was hoping that this book would shed more light for me, or bring about a new angle which it almost did. A young man is in a prep school, one of two African Americans. What had me was how he and his friend were viewed, and how they both adapted or coped with the subtle or not so subtle attitudes of people. But the book started with a policeman unjustly accusing the student of something, which kind of made me think that I had read the book before with the Hate You Give, with All American Boys, with How It Went Down, etc. That's why I was hoping for a book with the educational inequalities still prevalent, or with the attitudes towards equal opportunities. But it was still a good read. I did like the writing to Martin Luther King slant, but I'm not quite there, yet, as far as how it improved the story.
3/5 stars
There are many, many, many books about injustices against African Americans. I was hoping that this book would shed more light for me, or bring about a new angle which it almost did. A young man is in a prep school, one of two African Americans. What had me was how he and his friend were viewed, and how they both adapted or coped with the subtle or not so subtle attitudes of people. But the book started with a policeman unjustly accusing the student of something, which kind of made me think that I had read the book before with the Hate You Give, with All American Boys, with How It Went Down, etc. That's why I was hoping for a book with the educational inequalities still prevalent, or with the attitudes towards equal opportunities. But it was still a good read. I did like the writing to Martin Luther King slant, but I'm not quite there, yet, as far as how it improved the story.
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December 2023
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