Mecca wrote:IllmaticHandler wrote:Mecca wrote:Got a phone call with an email including a contract that a publishing company wanted to pick up my book.
Title: The Rose That Grew From Concrete: Tupac: The Modern Day Messiah
Utilizes Tupac's interviews and lyrics as a symbol in our society for oppression, economic inequality, and brutality. Draws contrast to Plato's Cave Allegory Theory mirroring American society.
ETA right now is February 2019.
I hope you dont white wash his messages, cause all of that was FIRST AND FOREMOST about Black People. I hope you not a culture vulture.
It is all about black people. It's 0% about white lol. I though that was obvious. One thing I am is heavily educated.
Book hits on
- Afeni Shakur
- Black Panther movement
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Malcolm X
- Brown vs. Board
- Plato Cave Allegory Theory
Here's a small excerpt.The Black Panther’s were more like a pack of wolves in the way they opposed the opposition. They did so, most notably by using knowledge as its chief tool. Much like Pac, The power of words were pivotal towards the Black Panther’s ability to spread the message. Delivering papers that would represent the righteous, defending equality, and freedom for all were integral towards their ambition towards starting a revolution. The “Socialist Alternative” had stated that support was so big that “they rapidly grew to a size of 5,000 full time party workers, organized in 45 chapters (branches) across America. At their peak, they sold 250,000 papers every week. Opinion polls of the day showed the Panthers to have 90% support amongst Blacks in the major cities.” (Wood) Their impact on Black America can be measured by the response of the state. J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the FBI described them as “the number one threat to the internal security of the United States.” (Socialist Alternative) Threat? How can the government and mass media taint the perception of a righteous movement? Easy. The control system that we just so happen to call the United States’ government lived in paranoia and fear that the oppressed were beginning to fight back, while still remaining intellectual and articulate in their ways. Much of these ways were highlighted in their historical ten point program, which was transmitted to thousands of papers in the rise of the Black Panthers.
