Dear Martin Final Vocab

Question 1

Affirmative action

Answer 1

A set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination and prevent such discrimination in the future.

Question 2

Racial Profiling

Answer 2

discriminatory police actions based on race or ethnicity, rather than actual behavior or information about criminal activity

Question 3

Bias

Answer 3

a tendency to favor one person, group, or thing over another, often in an unfair way

Question 4

Microaggression

Answer 4

subtle, often unintentional, behaviors or remarks that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to a person based on their membership in a marginalized group

Question 5

Prejudice

Answer 5

subtle, often unintentional, behaviors or remarks that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to a person based on their membership in a marginalized group

Question 6

What happens to Justyce when he tries to keep Melo from driving home drunk?

Answer 6

Justyce gets racially profiled and wrongfully arrested

Question 7

Why does Justyce write to MLK?

Answer 7

-Justyce wants to start paying more attention to racial issues and be like MLK.

-He started writing to MLK because he faced many hardships due to his race

-Justyce explains how he wants to live like him and figure out what he would do in his situation

 -Can be a sense of guidance for him

Question 8

Who shot the officer that racially profiled Justyce?

Answer 8

Manny’s cousin Quan

Question 9

Why did Blake get punched in the face at the Halloween party?

Answer 9

Blake was wearing a KKK hood and robe as a costume.

Question 9

Who is Justyce’s debate partner?

Answer 9

SJ

Question 10

What was the name of the gang Trey and Quan belong to?

Answer 10

The name of the gang is the Black Jihad.

Question 11

How does Jared think Justyce got accepted into Yale?

Answer 11

Jared thinks Justyce got accepted because of affirmative action.

-He believes that Yale had to fill a “quota” so it could be considered diverse causing him to believe that Justyce was one of these people that were chosen

Question 12

Why wouldn’t Justyce’s mom approve of Justyce dating SJ?

Answer 12

Because she is white and his mom is worried for him that it is not the best option since there has been a lot of racism and prejudice in his life (he could get in trouble because of her)

Question 13

What did Justyce do after the State Championships that caused SJ to behave strangely toward him?

Answer 13

Justyce tried to kiss SJ

Question 14

What started the fight at Blake’s birthday party?

Answer 14

-Blake asked Justyce and Manny to help him sleep with a black girl and then called them his “n-words.”

-Justyce hit him

Question 15

Why is Manny nervous about going to Morehouse?

Answer 15

Manny is nervous because he feels that he has always been around a lot of white people and has never dated a back girl. Going to this college, Manny fears that he will “different” from them because Justyce is his only black friend and Manny has never dated a black girl.

Question 16

How does Manny feel about black girls?

Answer 16

He is scared of them and thinks they are “attitude-y and ghetto.”

Question 17

Why did Justyce call Manny a “sell-out?”

Answer 17

Justyce called Manny a “sell-out” because he allows his white friends to disrespect black people and goes along with it.

Question 18

Why did Doc go check on Justyce at his dorm?

Answer 18

Manny was worried about Justyce and asked Doc to check on him.

Question 19

Why did Manny fight Jared?

Answer 19

Jared made a racist slave joke about Manny not being able to leave the basketball team until “Massah” set him free.

Question 20

What were Manny and Justyce surprised to hear about Manny’s dad?

Answer 20

They were surprised to hear that he has a great deal of authority and still gets disrespected because of his race.

Question 21

Explain what happened at the Thirteenth Street light.

Answer 21

Manny and Justyce were blasting music from Manny’s car and an off-duty white officer kept screaming at them to turn the music down. Manny turned it up louder, the man called them “n-words”, Justyce got scared and tried to turn the music down, then the officer shot them both and killed Manny.

Question 22

Why did Manny’s parents invite Justyce over after Manny died?

Answer 22

Manny’s parents invited Justyce over to give him the watch that they were going to give to Manny when he turned 18 and to tell him that Quan wanted him to visit him in jail.

Question 23

Why did Quan want Justyce to visit him?

Answer 23

Quan wanted to hook Justyce up with Martel and the Black Jihad gang.

Question 24

What was the ultimatum given to Manny' father by his job?

Answer 24

Manny's father was told to either sever all ties with the "Justice for JAM Movement" or leave the company.

Question 25

Why does Justyce decide to go against his mom and date SJ?

Answer 25

Justyce realizes SJ makes him happy and life is too short to not be with someone that makes happy.

Question 26

What were the results of Garrett Tison's murder charge?

Answer 26

The murder charge was declared a mistrial and he would be retried.

Question 27

What did District Attorney Jeff Rentzen call to tell Justyce?

Answer 27

-DA Rentzen called to tell Justyce that Officer Garret Tison was found dead in his cell at the Clarke County Jail.

Question 28

Who did Justyce run into at Manny's grave and what did he learn that was surprising?

Answer 28

Justyce ran into Jared and learned that Jared was majoring in Civil Rights Law and minoring in African American Studies.

Question 29

What does it mean when Jared calls America "color blind"?

Answer 29

-the idea of saying that our society today is “color blind” can be frustrating towards black people because it communicates the idea that we are all the same and ignores the fact that black people have gone through way for struggles -In other words, it ignores what black people have gone through and doesn’t acknowledge the fact that black people are treated differently when it comes to police encounters

Question 30

Why does Justcye look up to Doc?

Answer 30

-He is the debate team advisor -Only half black man that Justcye knows who has a PhD -Over the course of the book, Doc gives him very valuable advice and overall helps him a lot

Question 31

Token Black Guy

Answer 31

-a harmful stereotype that suggests a person is only included in a group because of their race -When Jared describes a boy in a play as a “Token black guy” meaning he was only put there to “fill in a box” or to show that the play was being diverse.

Question 32

Where is blackface mentioned in chapter 4? Which character mentions it and in what context?

Answer 32

In chapter 4, blackface is mentioned when Justyce is writing to MLK. In this context, Justyce wants to express how he is annoyed with the fact that kids like Jared were essentially put into doing racist actions without understanding what it means. Additionally, Justcye can also be frustrated due to the fact that they are joking about that matter without considering what the term “blackface” really depicts.

Question 33

Is this character a bad person for dressing up in blackface? Why or why not?

Answer 33

Based on what was said in the book, I believe that it was not Jared’s fault due to the fact that he was little at the time and didn't have control over what role he played and the make up he did as he describes the people who put on his makeup as “they”.

Question 34

How do you think Justyce felt overhearing this conversation?

Answer 34

I think that not only did Justyce feel annoyed about how ignorant Jared and his friends were being, but he was also upset about the fact that Many did not speak up about what they were saying in addition to the fact that he agreed with all the things they were talking about when they asked for input even though he deep down did not agree with it.

Question 35

Which part of this conversation may have been the most hurtful to Jus?

Answer 35

I think a part that could have been the most hurtful to Jus is when Manny agrees to our world having equality. Additionally, when Kyle describes that he doesn't even view Manny as black, not only does Jus know that Manny’s heart wasn’t in that laugh that expressed, but also it made Justcye think about this in a police setting where they would definitely see Manny as black.