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Oh, absolutely, and we have a radical side to us; many immigrants from Latin America have lead radical movements as well as union movements.

Same reason they like to fawn over the unborn and babies: It's easy to put words in the mouth of those who can't argue back.

I was just about to bring up MLK, Jr.

Great example of this.

And even as journalists say that he was a philander, an abuser, and a pedophile or something (just like they do with Mao Zedong, though they certainly don't rehabilitate Mao in their image).

Hell, this somewhat happens to the Black Panthers from time to time, but by liberals.

in my opinion, he got got by the FBI, tbh.

Before October 7, I was just starting to read a book where the author made this argument. Tupac was assassinated because he had cross demographic appeal on top of being a radical. He was someone white people were cool with while at the same time had enough street cred to broker a ceasefire between rival LA gangs. He was a communist and pan-Africanist. His generation was supposed to be the one to pick up the torch after the BPP, and his assassination was a dramatic means of severing the connection between the radicalism of the 60s and the present.

That whole situation was fucking messy, on record he got into a fight with a Crip somewhere and eventually that same Crip ended his life. Vegas is not that far from LA and a lot of folk go there for reasons, often to start shit with other folk wearing different colors.

I'm not against the theory an alphabet agency had a hand in it given his family history, but the simplest explanation is he got into a fight with a guy who had no problem taking it to a bad place after the fact. Pac was spiraling at this point in his life. Maybe people were out to get him, or maybe his familial paranoia caught up to him. Really, California is a fucking black hole, and Los Angeles is the area with the greatest gravitational pull (yay area being #2 and the IE a close 3rd). A lot of rappers have died there, and Pac was really playing up that gangster role at this time. Pac didn't die in LA, but he was def crashing out in a typical Los Angeles fashion.

Whatever. Gangbanging is fucking stupid. Too many people lost over this shit.