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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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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This line is referring to 2Pacalypse Now, which was the debut album that launched him into fame in the rap game back in 1992.
My live mind got me survivin' five rounds (shots)
2Pac (Ft. Buckshot & Smif-N-Wessun) – Military Minds
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This is a reference to when he was shot five times. Miraculously, he survived. Since then, he had it set in his mind that nothing could stop him.
May God forgive us though we dwell inside a paradox
Thugged out and drug dealin', from the womb to the block 2Pac (Ft. Buckshot & Smif-N-Wessun) – Military Minds
Thugged out and drug dealin', from the womb to the block 2Pac (Ft. Buckshot & Smif-N-Wessun) – Military Minds
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A thug, seeking God’s blessing, seems paradoxical because thugs often do things that aren’t good. Although God is forgiving of all human beings, Pac still hopes that God forgives him because of the risky life he chooses to live.
More broadly, Pac’s social paradox links with former Black Panther and current professor at UC Santa Cruz Angela Y. Davis' description of the U.S. as a “Prison Industrial Complex”
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