I’d love to see young adults of every race read this novel to help them develop empathy and understanding of another group’s challenges. It’s also not written for people who have decided either a) racism doesn’t exist or b) white men are persecuted just as much as anyone else. So after giving this book much thought, I decided I may not love it in terms of its style and execution, but it wasn’t written for me. By the way I’m strongly opposed to racism!” Of course, it should go without saying that the reviewer’s tone was one of “I know I’m going to get crucified for this review because everybody loves this book, but this is why it’s racist, and if you disagree with me you clearly just don’t understand my enlightened opinion. So I guess the reviewer’s point is that she/he doesn’t see color? And anyone who talks about race issues is racist? Then I went back and read The Hate You Give again and asked forgiveness for ever doubting its necessity. Then I tried to find a sarcastic meme about racism to go with this point and had to stab my eyes out with an American flag because of the sheer number of truly racist memes there are online. “I don’t care abut that kinda stuff, Starr. “What the fuck’s that got to do with anything?” “I’m white?” he says, like he’s just hearing that for the first time. From what I gather, the reviewer is referencing the passage where Starr tells her boyfriend Chris why she’s been giving him the silent treatment: I’m not going to link to the review because I don’t want to give it any more oxygen, but the reviewer’s perspective is that the book is racist because Starr tells a character he doesn’t understand something because he is white. Then I read a review like one I saw recently on GoodReads, and I realize my naiveté stems from underestimating what counts as a revolutionary idea. I don’t think it’s tremendously insightful to say that an unarmed man shouldn’t be pulled over and shot by the police for driving while black, and whether or not he was a drug dealer is an irrelevant discussion. I’m the first to admit that I’ve become jaded from seeing the same story play out on the news on a weekly (daily?) basis. My initial reaction to this novel is it has positive things to say and it’s an important story, but it’s not terribly subtle. I can enjoy something from that genre, but I will rarely love it. But I’m struggling a bit with this one, mainly because I don’t normally read young adult literature. Second, I don’t normally read reviews before I write my own, because I want to be honest about what I’m feeling and I don’t want to inadvertently borrow someone else’s thoughts or jump on a bandwagon. I’m inspired to pay it forward by adding something from my “already read” stack when I return it. I’d heard of this novel but might not have been prompted to borrow it if I hadn’t seen it through the friendly little window. A few weeks ago I picked this up from one in my neighborhood and it was my first time borrowing anything from one of those tiny bibliotecas. Or for at least reading this far down into the README.įollow me on twitter and check-out my other repositories if I've earned it.First things first: I want to give a shout out to the Little Free Libraries of the world. The color conversion functions are written in a very abstract form (as close to Haskell as I could) as to be reproducible in other languages and just darn better to read. My reasoning for CoffeeScript is to allow this repository to serve as a learning resource as well as a tool for those who would like to improve it. It is designed to be run, not only online, but offline.
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