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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. You would think we can never achieve the inconceivable.

We don't be known, but we hear unbelievable.

When you 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 Ammanless Stenberg, based on the Hawaii novel of the same name by Angie Thomas.

The hate you give follows Star 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.

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. It's a sort of dinner table scene, and he is giving his three kids the talk. And I say three kids, even though one of them is only one year old.

And so we get Starr's voiceover talking about how she's nine years old, her brother is 10,

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