In the movie The Hate U Give, the impact of that violence and resistance up close. Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) is a Black 16-year-old whose two worlds collide after she witnesses a White police officer kill her friend, Khalil (Algee Smith). Adapted from Angie Thomas’s best-selling book the hate u give, the motion picture follows Carter as she evolves from a girl navigating the Black world of her neighborhood and the White world of her private school into an activist who is forced to find and use her voice to pursue justice for her people against the discriminative municipal police.

In most departments of the U.S. municipal police there has for a long time been a stigma of prejudice and descrimination toward minority groups. More specifically the African-American racial group. This movie/media text highlights these things that are known as truth for most. In the movie “The Hate U Give” the primary protagonist Starr Carter had an interaction with a local (municipal) police officer that lead to the wrongful and unlawful death of her childhood friend Khalil. The assumption throughout the film regarding this interaction was the same as the theoretical assumption “outgroup stereotypes” which suggests that “there are certain stereotypes and perceptions of group enemies/competitors.” This theoretical assumption is being shown by both groups but in two different ways. The municipal police in this movie believe that the Afircan-Americans in the area that they enforce law are all dangerous and must be regarded as such. The protagonist Khalil was shot and killed because the officer believed Khalil had a gun and that he was a threat. Khalil had a brush in his hand. The same theoretical assumption can be applied the the thought processes of the African-American racial group in the film. The father of Starr Carter is an ex-felon who believes all police to be a danger to he and his people. He taught Starr how to interact with them in situations like the one that she encountered, which is the reason why she survived.

Later analysis of the municipal police reveal a lack of imperial leadership. Which is when groups are led by individuals who put their personal agendas first. This is shown when Sterr tells the captain of the police force to stop abusing her people, but he ignores her sentiment and continues his onslaught of police brutality on a peacefully protesting group. Even though the police is a “task oriented group” whose goal is to work toward completing tasks, the captain had the decision. But his previous views about the opposition were already biased.





Sociologically speaking there will never be a solution to the broken interaction or lack thereof between the municipal police and African-Americans as a racial group due to the lack of a shared social. Which could be defined as “concurrence seeking” -the efforts to search out group consensus. Although the African-American’s use this theoretical assumption, it isn't shared by the municipal police causing a constant overview of self censorship on both sides.

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