When racial inequality hits...
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Justyce McAllister is a smart young man, bound for an Ivy League college the following year. He gets good grades, is the captain of the debate team and he likes to hang with his best friend Manny. Only he is not very fond of Manny's other friends who often like to argue that racial inequality isn't a real thing. Even if Manny wouldn't admit it Justyce knows his friend struggles with some comments, because he himself does too. But both of them know that by handling racial comments a certain way they get branded as either too agressive or too sensitive.
After a party Justyce wanted to make sure his drunken ex girlfriend doesn't get into her car to drive home from by herself he. That night Justyce ends up in handcuffs. Released with an apology, Justyce of course knows it could've been much worse. After his experience with the police he starts a journal, writing to Martin Luther King in hope to find some answers - since he studied the teachings of Dr King he thought this kind of coping a good idea. But then the worst case happens as he watches Manny gets killed by a cop in his car while they were listening to music the cop decided is too much ghetto-like.
A colleague of mine recommended Nic Stone's 'Dear Martin' to me after we talked about Angie Thomas' 'The Hate U Give'. It's one of those very vital and powerful books that I wanted to read to remind myself about the unfair privileges which come with my white skin colour and of which I am often not aware of. I find it important to recognise the struggles that others have in this world. I hope that reading about these struggles and these inequalities, I become more aware of the things (starting with my behaviour and language) that have to change. I mean you gotta start somewhere right?