Ex NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick was spotted in Manhattan, NY sporting a retro Tupac Shakur Tee.
The shirt shows one of Tupac’s song titles, “Me Against The World.”
Regardless of such speculation, the bigger issue here is Colin’s co-opting of divisive, destructive figures like the late Tupac, Fidel Castro, & Che Guevara.
Shakur’s defense of gangs & their nefarious activities is well documented, but the undiscovered underbelly of Tupac’s message is much more insidious than the obvious evil of gangland culture.
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Let’s examine some old footage of a Tupac Shakur prison interview, to uncover the danger of his message & what it has done to impressionable young men like Colin Kaepernick.
Examining his philosophy about gangs(5:30 on video), you can see how dangerously persuasive he can be for an underdeveloped mind.
When asked about gangs, he says,
I think, I’m gonna get a lot of flack for it, I think gangs can be positive.
It just has to be organized.
Already, alarms should be going off in our collective consciousness from these statements alone.
We know that Tupac’s mother Assata was deeply involved with subversive anti-law & order groups like the Black Liberation Army, & was convicted of murder in 1977.
Moral Equivalency Tactic
The young rapper continues in this piece, building a narrative to conflate urban gangs with our own societal government structure, explaining,
This country was built on gangs, you know, I think this country still is run on gangs.
Republicans, Democrats, the police department, the FBI, the CIA, those are GANGS!
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Then he uses an anecdotal technique to create a false truth, telling the interviewer that one of his correctional officers bragged that he & his fellow officers “are the biggest gang in New York State.”
When asked about the violence, Tupac tries to compare this gang behavior with the military defense operations of America.
He fashions another lie with a poor comparative illustration between gang & U.S. military retaliation.
Shakur even goes as far as saying,
America’s the biggest gang in the world!
Wisdom Shortage
Further he uses the example of our embargo of CUBA, saying gangs cut people off the same way.
What Tupac, & too many Americans fail to realize is, there is a much more important reason for our nation’s operations against oppressive regimes than a thug who got robbed by one of his junkies.
As our de facto world protector, the United States must minimize the damage that Marxist countries & other tyrannical regimes inflict upon innocent people.
This is about why we fight, not who gets to do the fighting.
It’s too easy for a person to dumb this concept down to a Tupac level. If you don’t admonish your fellow man to think more deeply, this country begins to fill up with intellectually lazy Colin Kaepernick clones.
Instead of emulating confused popular figures, we should be diligently seeking the greatest ideologies.
Then, we tell these petulant pop culture panderers to be students before they can teach.
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