Are lesson learned? If so, how would you describe them? What do you think Lisa means when she says that "white folks want diversity but not too much diversity?
This is a recurring theme throughout the movie, and appears from the start, when Maverick makes his young children recite the Ten-Point Program from the Black Panther Party. When Khalil is wrongfully shot to death by a white officer, the film delves deeper into an exploration of the injustice black individuals suffer at the hands of ignorant and trigger-happy white officers. The police force depicted in the film is a violent, proto-fascist, and unsympathetic institution. They break up a peaceful protest with tear gas and they are quick to pull a gun on black individuals. The film gives the viewer a window into this injustice, and shows the way that police brutality gets mishandled by the media and the law.
The title of the movie alludes to this important theme. The title refers to Tupac's anagram for "Thug Life": "The hate you give little infants fucks everybody." This quote alludes to the fact that the hate black youth experience from white society only creates a cycle of hate, which is the structural motor for why black Americans get caught up in systems of violence and crime. The film examines one family's attempts at breaking the cycle of this hate, and finding a way to protest and fight injustice in ways that are self-affirming and loving. Hate, according to the movie, is a dead end that ruins everyone's lives.
