"This country was built on gangs. This country is still running on gangs. Republicans. Democrats, The Police Department, FBI, CIA. Those are gangs." Tupac Shakur

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[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

"By next election, I promise, I'm goin to be sitting across from all the candidates. I bet you! I promise you.... I'm gon be so far from where I am now, in 4 years... God willing, if I'm alive.... It's on! I guarantee! ... We WILL have our own political party." ~ Tupac Shakur. Assassinated a couple weeks later.

[–]Canbot 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

To a fish everything looks like a school.

His gang never built anything. They tear apart the shit other people built.

The police, fbi, cia, etc. Never built anything either. There are similarities between those things, but I would argue that the corruption within organizations like those is worse than street gangs.

It's a surface level similarity. And it's absurd to claim any of those groups built anything.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

Bullshit.

Tupac and Biggie were not saints, but they weren't useless either.

They were taken out by the powers that should not be because they were effectively resisting tyranny.

As much as I'm not a fan of rap music, I can appreciate that it once had some power. It has since all been neutered.

[–]Canbot 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What is something they built? They had millions of dollars, countless fans, the attention of millions. What exactly did they do with it besides make claims about overthrowing whitey.

[–]Rob3122 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just don't call them "niggers" right?

[–]Rob3122 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You think tptb killed a couple worthless rappers?

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ask their families if they were worthless.

Ask your family if you're worthless.

Who are you to judge?

At least they were doing something about the problems, unlike most SaidItors.

[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They killed a lot of black socialists in COININTELPRO

Could be that Tupac was planning Black Panther Party 2.0 and tptb decided to snip it in the bud before they could gain any traction given the amount of influence they had.

[–]buffalo_fart_the_VII 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well the do build cases....

[–]makesyoudownvote 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I will never understand the insane level reverence people have for Tupac.

He's kinda bright for a rapper... but that's a pretty low bar. He's no great philosopher or political commentator. At least Biggie knew what he was.

[–]LtGreenCo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think if Tupac hadn't died and instead lived on into, what would he be now, 50-something? Then nobody would give a shit. There's something about dying young that makes people more likely to iconify you.

[–]makesyoudownvote 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Absolutely right on the money, but then again no one is quoting Biggie, not that he has much that particularly worth quoting.

[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ask any black and they will say BS, the world is doing "us" wrong the'll say.

[–]jingles 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i dont remember ever meeting a white crack dealer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7teWckfhLPA

[–]Insider 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You mean Clinton and Soros running child trafficking and organ harvesting foundations in African nations isn't doing them wrong?

or CIA experimenting on blacks in the Tuskegee syphilis study or trafficking illegal drugs to the black community in the US?

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nigra logic.