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- - - - His parents are very rich.
      - He is the captain of the basketball team before he quits.
      - Drives a range rover.
      - He will be attending Morehouse College after his senior year.
      - Justyce's best friend.
      - Actions/Quotes:
        
        Manny plays off racist jokes made by his friends. (Page 93).
        
        "Dawg, if you care anything about this friendship, you will get your punk ass in the car right now." (Page 94)
        
        "You were in love with her, huh? Heart's all broken and shit?" (Page 88)
        
        "I know that muthafucka didn't just say what I think he did." (Page 118).
        
        "Let it go? That ho is the reason you sat in handcuffs for three hours, and you want me to let it go?" (Page 16)
- - - - From same neighborhood as Justyce
      - Killed Officer Castillo
      - Apart of the local Black Jihad gang
      - Young teenager - black
      - Manny's cousin
      - Action/Quotes
        
        "Quan's a year younger than Justcye, and they played together back when the only thing that mattered was staying outside until the streetlights came on." (Page 19)
        
        "So the muthafucka got his just deserts." (Page 141)
        
        "Yesterday Justyce also learned that the cop Manny's cousin confessed to shooting was none other than Tomas Castillo." (Page 19)
        
        "If that's what someone's told to do, they do it." (Page 142)
        
        "He's been charged with murder," she said." (Page 18)
- - - - "It's like I'm trying to climb a mountain, but I've got one fool trying to shove me down so I won't be on his level, and another fool tugging at my leg, trying to pull me to the ground he refuses to leave." (Page 66)
      - He gets shot by Garrett Tison over a loud music dispute.(Page 120)
      - He quits his Dear Martin experiment after Manny's death. (124)
      - "He's gone. Never did anything to anyone, and now Manny's gone. I can't do this anymore." Page 124.
      - He's arrested by Officer Castillo. (Page 7 and 8)
- - - - Doesn't read people their rights.
      - Rough with people.
      - He's partnered with Garrett Tison.
      - Most likely racist.
      - He mishandles suspets.
      - Actions/Quotes
        
        "Now, if you know what's good for you, you won't move or speak. Resistance will only land you in deeper shit. Got it?" (Page 8).
        
        "I know your kind: punks like you wander the streets of nice neighborhoods searching for prey. Just couldn't the pretty white girl who'd locked her keys in her car, could ya?" (Page 8).
        
        "Don't say shit to me, you son of a bitch. I knew your punk ass was up to no good when I saw you walking down the road with that goddamn hood on." (Page 8).
        
        He was killed by Quan Banks. (Page 19).
        
        He hits Justyce in the face. (Page 7).
- - - - Pacifist.
      - A strong civil rights activist.
      - A natural born leader.
      - A spiritual leader for Justyce.
      - Strong and courageous.
- - - - Sympathetic.
      - Leads good discussions.
      - Very intelligent and determined.
      - Has a PHD.
      - Calm and collected.
      - Actions/Quotes:
        
        "And as for you, the only way you're gonna thrive is if you're okay with yourself, man. People are gonna disrespect you, but so what? Guys like Jared don't have any bearing on how far you get in life. If you know the stuff they're saying isn't true, why let it bother you?" (Page 103)
        
        Doc says that when he was working for his PhD that his doctoral advisor was racist towards him, but he ignored him and kept working. (Page 104)
        
        Doc checks on Justyce after his rough night at Blake's birthday party. (Page 97).
        
        Doc congradulates Justyce on being accepted into Yale. (Page 58).
        
        "Let's keep it professional, Mr. Christensen." (Page 61)
- - - - She is on the debate team with Justyce.
      - She has had feelings for Justyce since 10th grade.
      - She is Jewish.
      - She opposes Jared's views on racism.
      - Very intelligent, ends up attending Columbia University
      - Acltions/Quotes
        
        She cold-shoulders Justyce after he's tries to kiss her. (Page 82).
        
        "Seeing you with all those tubes in your body was probably the lowest moment of my life, Jus.To think I spent all that time being stupid, then almost lost you?" (Page 173)
        
        "HOLY SHIT, JUS. HOLY SHIT!" (Page 53)
        
        She agrees to go on a date with Justyce. (Page 172).
        
        "You said affirmative action "discriminates against members of the majority," and you cited Jus's accepteance to Yale and your lack thereof as supporting evidence for that assertion. Ignoring how effing racist it is to assume your test scores would be higher than Justyce's, the counterevidence-namely that you and Justyce are more or less equally qualified-has nullified your assertion. (Page 60)
      - At the end of the book, SJ is in a long distance relationship with Justyce while she attends Columbia University.
- - - - Very close friends with Manny Rivers
      - Was racially incline and now changing his racial views
      - Young teenage white kid
      - Grew up with money
      - Goes to a college preparatory academy
      - Action/Quotes
        
        "Obviously because you're black, bro." (Page 28)
        
        "Sounds like you're jumping on the White Is Wrong bandwagon to me." (Page 29)
        
        "Not every white person who kills a black person is guilty of crime. Pretty sure the courts proved that yesterday." (Page 27)
        
        "I took Intro to African American Studies course, and it really blew me away, dude. I'm thinking about minoring in it." (Page 207)
        
        "Well, anyone born here is a citizen with full rights. There are people who claim certain "injustices" are race related, but if you ask me, they're just being divisive." (Page 24)
- - - - Racially incline
      - Young teenagers - white
      - Both go to preparatory college academy
      - Have money
      - Both are friends with Manny and Jared
      - Action/Quotes
        
        Kyle - "See, things are really equal nowadays, bro. A white kid can play a famous black dude in a play, and it's no big deal." (Page 32)
        
        Jared: "Can you believe that asshole? What kind of teacher has the nerve to suggest there's racial inequality to a classroom full of millennial's?"
        Kyle: "Seriously, bro? He said that shit?" (Page 30)
        
        Jared: "Right here, right now, on these red hills of Georgia, a son of former slave owners are sitting down at the table of brotherhood, dude. The dream has been realized!"
        Tyler: "Damn, bro. That was really poetic." (Page 32)
        
        Jared: "And of course SJ jumped right on it. I think the fact that her mom has to constantly defend all those thugs is starting to screw with her head."
        "Blake, Kyle, and Tyler: [Laugh.]"
        
        Kyle - "Too late, though . . . if Justcye is your competition, you're screwed, dog. "Once you go black," right, Manny?" (Page 31)
- - - - Goes to college preparatory academy
      - Was one of Manny's and Jared's best friends
      - Young White teenager
      - Takes things to far
      - Racially incline
      - In the end Blake lost his friends and try's framing Justcye by giving the news pictures of him dress as a thug and saying how he beat him up but becomes a nobody.
      - Action/Quotes
        
        "Token black guy over here got sick or something, right?" (Page 32)
        
        "Homegirl's got the fattest ass I've ever seen, and I think is she meets my niggas, I'll have a good chance of getting' her upstairs." (Page 90)
        
        "When they get to Manny's car and Blake pulls on the hood and raises his arm in the Nazi salute." (Page 42)
        
        "What is with you people in and the goddamn race card, huh?" (Page 91)
        
        "Blake takes it too far. He's dress as a Klansman." (Page 40)
- - - - Single parent
      - Doesn't want Justcye to date white girls
      - Hard working
      - Focus on Justcye education and success in life
      - Justcye's mom
      - In the end Mama just tells Justcye to keep up his studies and to watch it with white women. She isn't in the book much at the end.
      - Action/Quotes
        
        "My mom . . . Well, she's not real keen on me, uhh . . . dating girls who aren't African American." (Page 171)
        
        "I'm not starting with anything, Justyce. Just sayin' watch yourself with that one. That's all." (Page 129)
        
        "I don't give my consent." (Page 176)
        
        "Manny, my mama would blow every gasket in a fifty-mile radius." (Page 70)
        
        "Mama steps forward and crosses her arms. "I'm his mother, and he's a minor. What can I do for you, Officers?" (Page 176)
- - - - Shot and killed Manny and injured Justcye
      - Officer Castillo's partner
      - "Veteran" cop
      - Racially incline
      - Older white man
      - Action/Quotes
        
        "YOU WORTHLESS NIGGER SONS OF BITCHES!" (Page 118)
        
        "I SAID TURN THAT SHIT DOWN!" (Page 118)
        
        "He's red as a pepper, and he keeps glaring at me with those bulgy eyeballs." (Page 117)
        
        "Will you assholes turn that goddamn racket down!" (Page 118)
        
        "Garret Tison is dead." (Page 197)
- - - - works at the top of a well company
      - Black Man
      - Successful man
      - Humble
      - Manny's dad
      - In the end Mr. and Mrs. Rivers end up giving Justcye, Manny's birthday gift that was supposed to be for his 18th birthday which is watch that Justcye wears for Manny.
      - Action/Quotes
        
        "We intended to give this to Emmanuel for his eighteenth birthday. I have no doubt he'd want you to have it under these circumstances, so we'd be honored if you'd receive it in his stead." (Page 136)
        
        "It's been passed to the eldest male for two generations now. We want you to have it." (Page 137)
        
        "We're really happy you cam to join us tonight. Means a lot to us." (Page 134)
        
        "Just knowing it's in your possession means a lot to us." (Page 137)
        
        "So how you holdin' up, Justcye? Back in school yet?" (Page 134)