Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joined us again this week the new report released by that organization, the “Report on Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black People since January 1st, 2012.” And then Meshaun Labrone joined the program to discuss his new play, Right to Remain… The Life and Mind of Tupac Shakur, running over the next few weeks in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. We talked the life and politics of Tupac Shakur and included discussion of John Potash and his work on many lesser known aspects of the life and assassination of Shakur.
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Isn’t what we have here a “re-invention” of tupac? While he may have expressed poetic insights, as a political theorist he was a flyweight when thought of in light of huey newton, fred hampton, kwame toure, steve biko, george jackson, etc.! Playing the what would tupac be saying today game, I would suggest it would be even money he’d have become the initial kanye west, ‘the voice of this generation’, with prof dyson cheerleading in trail! Coming up thru the black studies culture of the early 70′s, I recall a very salient point: not every utterance of the ‘streets’ is necessarily profound and revolutionary!