One of Richard Nixon's top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper's Magazine.
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JavaScript is a widely used programming language while Klingon is a fictional language from the Star Trek universe.
The picture on the left of the image is from the cover of the Javascript reference book by O'Reilly, a once widely-revered publisher of guides on a large range of computing topics including many programming languages. Each of their books was in a distinctly identifiable style, and always featured a woodcut illustration of an animal. O'Reilly was perhaps best known for their book “Programming Perl,” which featured a camel on the cover.
The symbol on the right of the image is that of the Klingon Empire from Star Trek, albeit in colours not normally seen in the series. They may be a subtle reference to the RGB color spectrum which is a fundamental theme in computer graphics.
You’d have to be quite a Trekkie (a major fan of Star Trek) to be fluent in Klingon. Trekkies are considered absolute nerds.
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Gangsters use “gats” (slang for handguns that is metaphorical, as it is literally impossible to hold a gatling gun in your pocket).
Nerds use soldering guns, a common tool for repairing and building electronics.
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Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, "Well, isn't this nice?" Alanis Morissette – Ironic
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, "Well, isn't this nice?" Alanis Morissette – Ironic
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Pac and the Outlawz reflect on their lives.
The original version of the song, titled “Staring Through My Rearview” was featured in the 1997 film Gang Related during the outro. An alternate mix was later included on the film’s soundtrack. It was then respelled and revamped for the Tupac: Resurrection Soundtrack.
Suppress the revolution a premeditated scheme
Introduce a drug called crack to us ghetto teens 2Pac (Ft. Buckshot & Smif-N-Wessun) – Military Minds
Introduce a drug called crack to us ghetto teens 2Pac (Ft. Buckshot & Smif-N-Wessun) – Military Minds
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In reference to the crack epidemic, Pac promotes the belief that the government manufactured crack during the 80’s to distribute to blacks in order to suppress them.
Please include that this is not a “belief” but rather a well research and known fact at the time within the Black community. Tupac articulated this fact using his music as a medium to convey it. Please incorporate this article
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