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Choose 1 line from Smith's speech that you find to be especially powerful/moving/interesting.

Write your name and your chosen line in this Padlet, and explain why you find it powerful/moving/interesting. Your response should be between 3-4 sentences.

Then, post one connection between this speech and The Hate U Give.

Then, post one question you have about the chosen line or the speech as a whole.

Post your response and read your classmates’ responses. Comment your thoughts on 2 of your classmates’ responses if you wish.

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"But what does it do to a child to grow up knowing you cannot simply be a child? That the whims of adolescence are too dangerous for your breath, that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someones implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning." I find it extremely moving, this idea that black children have to always be vigilant past a certain age. They have to be careful to not move, or act or play in a way that could be determined to be anything except what it really is. That, through no fault of the child, they may die because of someone else's twisted bias and hate. It's incredibly moving, and also incredibly sad. This speech connects to what Maverick was warning Starr about.

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"I think of how hard it must have been, how profoundly unfair it must have felt for them to feel like they had to strip away parts of my childhood just so I could come home at night"

It's messed up that a kid can't play outside without being "in trouble" and having to be scared. Other kids don't go outside with toys in their hands and get mistaken for something else because people don't think that way. People see the black kids and think their always causing trouble. White kids don't get talks about how to act and how to not draw attention to themselves like the black kids do

The kid in the book was taught how to act by her father and she wasn't able to just act like a child either

Why would he say "for them to feel like they had to strip away parts of my childhood" like they had a choice. He should have said "for them to have to" because it isn't a choice for them to protect their child that's responsibility. They won't be able to protect their child without exposing them to things that you wouldn't want to explain to a ten year old but it would be worse to leave them clueless on their own

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"some place where a child's name doesn't have to be written on a t-shirt, or a tombstone,"

powerful because a child shouldn't have to die young, they shouldn't be killed ever but never before they had a chance to live. they shouldn't just be another face on a t-shirt in a sea of faces on t-shirts at movements about police shootings. they shouldn't be another casualty, taken too early because someone thought they were threatening. they shouldn't have their name engraved in stone with their body behneth it because of the actions of someone else.

not the Hate U Give but Ghost boys, another book about this topic, the boy was killed because he was holding a toy gun, a police officer thought it was real and killed him. toys shouldn't be mistaken for real weapons. Khalil will just be another face on a t-shirt, another person underground too soon.

what did the speaker hope to ateive with this speech? what prompted his to write it?

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Line: But what does it do to a child to grow up knowing that you cannot simply be a child?

I personally find this line interesting because it makes you ask about why a child can't be a child just because they have a different skin color.

In addition, I find this connects to "The Hate U Give" by showing that Starr and other people have to be wary of people who might harm or kill them just because of their skin color.

The question you have to ask in the end is how the world has gone so far as to make children lose their lives just because they aren't white?

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Son, I'm sorry, but you can't act the same as your white friends. This is interesting to me because the thought that black kids can't act like white kids or do the same things as them. It's kinda stupid in my mind thinking that I grew up different then a black kid. And that is just not fun to think about and I have black friends but it wouldn't really be the same for them mostly because they live in a big black kinda area but if they did grow up like this it would be upsetting because their super chill and I wouldn't want that life style to happen to them ever even with their kids.

This is not related to the speech not that much but does the author have a kid and the reasons he's thinking about this stuff is because he has the same worries for his.

The connection I had was the line I choose that Star can't act the same with white kids as if it were black kids because blacks kids wouldn't like her if she was a white kinda kid and white kids would act weird if she acted like a black did I don't know how to explain it but it's more about Star acting like a white kid.

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"Son, I'm sorry, but you can't act the same as your white friends".

I find this line powerful because it explains that even as kids, black people are seen as different than white people. It shows how racism has allowed white people to have more freedom than black people. This one sentence represents the unfairness and lack of respect and safety that black people have had to deal with and worry about in the past. To not allow a kid to do what he wants and to have fun with his friends while doing absolutely nothing wrong and to believe he is guilty of something is terrible.

This sentence connects to The Hate U Give in how Starr is in a private school full of white kids. Starr sees how differently the people at garden Heights are treated and the way they act because they are black in this type of neighborhood.

Why can't a black kid act the same way as a white kid if they are only playing around and just having fun?

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Always keep your hands where they can see them, don't move to quickly, take your hood off when the sun goes down. My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so they couldn't make memory of this skin.

I find it interesting how the cops would just shoot someone because they look suspicious. They won't even tell them what they were doing, if they were doing anything at all. When he talks about the armor or advice, and the ocean of alarm bells, he means that his parents were protecting them from getting their life taken away. They don't want to just be a memory. It is not fair that people can't do certain things just because of the color of their skin.

The advice that the parents gave him and his siblings reminds me of what Maverick said in Chapter 2. This shows that the advice is very important, and is a real thing that goes on everyday.

Is it a good thing that these kids are getting this advice?

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Oscar Bachiu How to Raise a Black Son in America

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Oscar Bachiu How to Raise a Black Son in America

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"I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy". I find this line interesting because it talks about stereotypes toward black people. He wants to live is a world where his son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born because people will assume that his son is guilty of things just because of the color of his skin. It talks about how stereotypes influence people to mistake toys black children hold for guns.

This connects to The Hate U Give because Star was taught how to stay out of danger and not get shot just like Clint smith was.

One question I have is what was the relevance of him mentioning wanting to put jellybeans in his oatmeal?

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The second last paragraph reads "Because we have parents who raised us to understand that our bodies weren't meant for the backside of a bullet, but for flying kites and jumping rope, and laughing until our stomachs burst. We had teachers who taught us how to raise our hands in class, and not just to signal surrender, and that the only thing we should give up is the idea that we aren't worth of this world. So when we say that black lives matter, its not because others' don't, it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not."

I connect this to the book with the specific line of "We had teachers who taught us to raise our hands in class, and not just to signal surrender," In the book, Starr had to put her hands in the air as a signal of surrender, that she won't hurt the cop. I think in a more metaphorical sense of the original line, it can dive deeper into activism and speaking up. Raising your hand to speak, speak up, possibly?

Another connection from the given paragraph is the first line I provided up top. Parents teach their kids that they are meant to be children, that they are worthy of life and living fearless of dangers. Starrs' dad, Maverick had told Starr from a younger age what to do in the case of an officer approaching her. It is unfortunate that we are living in a society where we have to have these discussions with our youth. It's not like it's all of our youth, it's the black youth that are at risk. As white people, we never have to think about how racism affects us because it never directly does. But it does for black people, and that is why Maverick has to tell Starr. Do you think that the white kids at Williamson prep get the same talk? Almost definitely not.

My question

In the speech he says something along the lines of not being able to simply just be a child. That most likely connects into the experience that he had as a child at the hotel where his father told him he can't do that as a black person. Does his father not see that? doesn't his father want him to simply be a child, as Clint said? is his father desensitized to it that he doesn't even notice?

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Chosen line- The line I chose was when his father pulled him back inside and said "Son, I'm sorry, but you can't act like your white friends. You can't pretend to shoot guns. you can't run in the dark. You can't hide behind anything but your own teeth."

I chose this line because it's important to know how differently he had to act growing up, just because of the color of his skin. He wasn't allowed to act like a normal kid and run and play with his friends. which is completely unfair, children shouldn't have to go through this just because of how they look.

My question- Why should black people be treated differently just because of the color of their skin?

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"We had teachers who taught us how to raise our hands in class, and not just to signal surrender, and that the only thing we should give up is the idea that we aren't worthy of this world." I find this line interesting. Many people, not just black people, have learned that they belong in this world. No matter the circumstances, they should not give up or surrender to the unnecessary acts of someone else, but to justify against them as well as teach others to. This can relate to the fact that Maverick taught Starr to recognize police officers and their badge numbers, so if they do something unlawful, she could defend herself in court.