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\nRasha d is absent again today.
\nThat&rsquo\;s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all&hellip\;
\nWell\, no\, actually\, a lady tripping ove r Rashad at the store\, making him drop a bag of chips\, was what started it all. Because it didn&rsquo\;t matter what Rashad said next&mdash\;that it was an accident\, that he wasn&rsquo\;t stealing&mdash\;the cop just ke pt pounding him. Over and over\, pummeling him into the pavement. So then Rashad\, an ROTC kid with mad art skills\, was absent again&hellip\;and ag ain&hellip\;stuck in a hospital room. Why? Because it \;looked \;l ike he was stealing. And he was a black kid in baggy clothes. So he must h ave been stealing.
\nAnd that&rsquo\;s how it started.
\nAnd t hat&rsquo\;s what Quinn\, a white kid\, saw. He saw his best friend&rsquo\ ;s older brother beating the daylights out of a classmate. At first Quinn doesn&rsquo\;t tell a soul&hellip\;He&rsquo\;s not even sure he understand s it. And does it matter? The whole thing was caught on camera\, anyway. B ut when the school&mdash\;and nation&mdash\;start to divide on what happen s\, blame spreads like wildfire fed by ugly words like &ldquo\;racism&rdqu o\; and &ldquo\;police brutality.&rdquo\; Quinn realizes he&rsquo\;s \ ;got \;to understand it\, because\, bystander or not\, he&rsquo\;s a p art of history. He just has to figure out what side of history that will b e.
\nRashad and Quinn&mdash\;one black\, one white\, both American&m dash\;face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn&rsquo\;t d ie after the civil rights movement. There&rsquo\;s a future at stake\, a f uture where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality . They just have to risk everything to change the world.
\nCuz that& rsquo\;s how it can end. \; ---Goodreads\, 2025
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