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It's about more than just color.

It's about black people, poor people, everybody at the bottom.

I need to speak for him.

Do you think we can never achieve the inconceivable?

We don't be known, but we hear, I'm believable.

When you're ready to talk, you talk.

Don't never let nobody make you be quiet.

I ain't named you star by accident.

Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

I'm Marissa Martinelli, an assistant editor here at Slate, and today we're spoiling The Hate You Give, the movie starring Amanda Stenberg, based on the Hawaii novel of the same name by Angie Thomas.

The Hate You Give follows Starr Carter, a teenage girl who is constantly switching between two worlds, her hometown, which is predominantly black and poor, and the elite prep school where the student body is mostly white and wealthy.

Star is forced to rethink her place in both worlds after a traffic stop, during which a white police officer shoots her childhood best friend Khalil, who is unarmed, and Star is the only witness.

Here to talk with me about the movie is Slate Culture Writer, Ingu Kang.

Hello, Ingu.

Hi.

And here in the studio, we have

editorial assistant Rachel Hampton. Hi, Rachel. Hello. So Rachel and I saw this movie last

night, and I think we both cried continuously throughout the movie. Ingu, was that true for you

as well? I believe so. How soon did you start crying?

I was already emotional during the very first scene of this movie, which was Russell Hornsby, who is phenomenal.

This is a phenomenal performance.

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