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The Republic of Phillipeans
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During the 60’s and 70’s, blacks were struggling for civil rights, and equal opportunities. In the late 60’s a movement was formed “The Black Panthers” called for the reform of American society to achieve social, political, and economic equality, based on principles of socialism. The political party shock up the 60’s, tired of police brutality and uncivil treatment as human beings. Heuy P. Newton and Booby Seale formed a Party in Oakland, California. The movement gained political attention and migrated around America. The Panthers patrolled the black communities with symbolic berets, firearms, black hats, and black leather jackets. They were recognized as militant and courageous Afro-American Nationalist. (Panther, (1995) Dir. Mario Peebles with Kadeem Hardison, Courtney Vance) The members expanded their services: providing free breakfast for children, clothes, and funded education for poor children. By the end of the year, the Panthers set up kitchens in cities across the nation, feeding over 10,000 children every day before they went to school. During this political movement hundreds of the Panthers were killed by the FBI, and county policemen. The Panthers efficiently eliminated by the FBI, majority went to jail for crimes that were made up, others were killed execution style. Some of the Panthers still remain Political Prisoner’s, some are professors at University, and others became a victim to drug addiction. One of the most popular drugs was crack cocaine. Crack sabotaged the black communities, in which the Panthers struggled to liberate. (http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/) In April 1969, the Panther 21 case, a jury acquitted New York Party members who has been charged with arson, conspiracy, and attempted murder, for allegedly plotting police assassinations and attempting to blow up public buildings. One of the Panther 21’s was Afeni Shakur. Afeni Shakur joined the political Party when she was 21, she was the mother of the late Legend Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac was a social scientist, who rapped about economical pressure, broken families, poverty, drugs, teen pregnancy, genocide, and political issues. Afeni raised Tupac to become a “Black Prince” of his generation. (http://www.alleyezonme.com) In his short twenty-five years of life, he accomplished his goal, and his mothers. Their goal was for Tupac to represent the African-American youths, and to express the pain of Black America. (http://www.2paclegacy.com) Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 16, 1971. Although Tupac was a victim of problems of the inner youth; poverty, fatherless, a constant relocation, his story began while he was just a seed in Afeni’s stomach. Prior to his birth Afeni was pregnant with him in a Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. She patted her stomach and stated “this is my prince. He is going to save the black Nation”. Afeni was released from prison two months before his birth, for her convictions of being in the Panther 21, she was out on bail. (http://www.2paclegacy.com) Like many other inner city youth’s of Today, Tupac did not have a stable father figure in his life. Even though he had members of the Panther as father figures (Geronimo Pratt, Mutulu Shakur), they wasn’t in his life for long, and they were sentenced 60+ years in prison. One of the most important father figures was a New York Hustler named Leggs, he died of a drug overdose, and that was who Tupac claimed as his father. In one of his songs he says “I was raised by thugs, schooled by villains, I learned my mathematics skills from real drug dealers” (CD: Until the End of Time, Tupac, producer Afeni Shakur). In spite of the fact, Tupac had formal education. Tupac and his sister Sekiywa (born in 1975), became small Panther celebrities in the liberal communities. Afeni’s friend called Tupac, a “Black Prince”, because of his bright eyes, and gifted behavior. Afeni Shakur was treated as a celebrity, invited to speak at Universities, and was supported financially. She was bestowed an apartment in New York’s, Riverside Drive, which is very expensive. “Then everything changed, the political tide changed over”, Tupac said in his statement. “We went on welfare, we lived in the slums of the ghettos of the Bronx, Harlem, & Manhattan, and it was hard for my mother to find a job because of her political background”. He estimated that he lived in “like eighteen different places”, when he started Junior High, one of them a homeless shelter. Afeni tired of living in New York, moved her family to Baltimore, MD, where he excelled in Drama at the Baltimore Theater of Arts. (Tupac Shakur 1971-1996, by the editors of VIBE) Tupac outshine in his dramatic performances, he was a great poet, and he began to have a passion for rapping. His first rap was about a friend that he lost to a gun. He was an extremely talented actor, he starred in five box office movies, which were all filmed in four years.
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Title: The Republic of Phillipeans
Words: 3948
Rating: None
Pages: 15.8
submitted by: Falani03
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