Box Office
Underperformed · 1.5xBudget$23M
Worldwide Gross$34.9M
The Hate U Give scores 9/10 woke by building its entire plot around systemic racism, police brutality, and the need for racial activism via Black Lives Matter protests and rhetoric. Skip it if you want stories free of heavy-handed political messaging.
The Hate U Give centers its entire premise and narrative on progressive ideological themes of systemic racism, police brutality against Black Americans, and the necessity of racial activism.
The plot follows Black protagonist Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) as she witnesses a white police officer fatally shoot her unarmed Black childhood friend Khalil during a traffic stop, then grapples with code-switching between her poor Black neighborhood Garden Heights and her white prep school while testifying, protesting, and confronting family and friends about racial injustice. The story explicitly invokes Black Lives Matter rhetoric, Tupac's THUG LIFE acronym critiquing cycles of hate, references to the Black Panthers' Ten-Point Program, and scenes of protests met with tear gas, framing police violence and institutional bias as the core conflict driving Starr's arc and the community's response.
We've run a full content analysis on The Hate U Give and scored it 9/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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