An Interesting Take on BLM

[FireIceTalon]

Tupac is my all time favorite musician, in any genre. That being said, I think his song-writing is actually much stronger than his poetry - though much of the lyrics in his music is poetry in itself, but I speak in contrast to his poetry book.

He did indeed observe divisions within the black community, and they were many - bloods and crips being probably the most famous, but also people like Calvin Butts and C. Delores Tucker who thought rap music was degrading and perpetuating violence in their community. They were wrong of course, but I digress. Black on black crime itself is a byproduct and consequence of systemic racism. They were segregated and redlined into communities that lacked the resources and more stable environments that white communities enjoyed - their environment was almost literally a 'survival of the fittest' one. Originally, the Bloods and Crips formed to protect their respective territories, but once crack was introduced into the equation, this made the violence 1000 x worse. Because it no longer was just about territory, it was about MONEY - which could potentially put kids in college so that future generations had an opportunity to escape the ghetto. So yes, there are divisions in the black community, but again these aren't just a product of their culture but also a consequence of systemic racism - just as un/underemployement, a poor public education system, lack of access to healthcare, and the criminal justice system are.