Description
The day I got the call, my life got turned upside down. You prepare yourself for all kinds of hurt in this world, but this is the kind you can't prepare yourself for. No matter how many times you may hear it on the news or may see police cars pulling people over for no reason, you will never get used to the ugly truth. We live in a system rigged against us, and the people that are supposed to protect us are the ones that can also turn things upside down for us in a heartbeat. ~~~~~ Alexia lives in the perfect town: Northview, white suburbia, where everyone lives in pretty houses and drives nice cars and people don't know a thing about the bad things that happen in the real world. And at the age of 16, she fell in love with Lucas, the boy of her dreams who plays basketball and gets good grades and makes the world seem just a little brighter. But being black in America means nothing good lasts forever. Police brutality is very real, and not matter how perfect life may seem, a single moment, just one mistake, one misstep, can turn the world all bad. And now Mar is left picking up the pieces of her life, trying to figure out why the world is all bad, and why getting justice for the ones you love seem so impossible in America. My name is Alexia Carroway, and this is the story of how I lost everything, and then had to fight to make things whole again, because being black in America means facing hardship, no matter how rich you might be.
The Before- how it began
