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"All Eyez on U" by Nikki Giovanni

as I tossed and turned unable to achieve sleep unable to control
 anxiety unable to comprehend why
 2Pac is not with us
 if those who lived by the sword died by the sword there would be no
 white men on earth
 if those who lived on hatred died on hatred there would be no KKK
 if those who lived by lies died by lies there would be nobody on wall
 street in executive suites in academic offices instructing the young
 don’t tell me he got what he deserved he deserved a chariot and
 the accolades of a grateful people
 he deserved his life
 it is as clear as a mountain stream as defining as a lightning strike
 as terrifying as sun to vampires
 2Pac told the truth
 there were those who called it dirty gansta rap inciting there were
 those who never wanted to be angry at the conditions but angry
 at the messenger who reported: your kitchen has roaches your toilet
 is overflowing your basement has so much water the rats are in the living room
 your house is in disorder
 and 2Pac told you about it
 what a beautiful boy graceful carriage melodic voice sharp wit intellectual
 breadth what a beautiful boy to lose
 not me never me I do not believe east coast west coast I saw
 them murder Emmett Till I saw them murder Malcolm X I saw
 them murder Martin Luther King I witnessed them shooting
 Rap Brown I saw them beat LeRoi Jones I saw them fill their jails
 I see them burning churches not me never me I do not believe
 this is some sort of mouth action this is some sort of political
 action and they picked well they picked the brightest freshest
 fruit from the tallest tree what a beautiful boy
 but he will not go away as Malcolm did not go away as Emmett
 Till did not go away your shooting him will not take him from us
 his spirit will fill our hearts his courage will strengthen us for the
 challenge his truth will straighten our backbones
 you know, Socrates had a mother she too watched her son drink
 hemlock she too asked why but Socrates stood firm and would
 not lie to save himself 2Pac has a mother the lovely Afeni had
 to bury her son it is not right
 it is not right this young warrior is cut down it is not right for
 the old to bury the young it is not right
 this generation mourns 2Pac as my generation mourned Till as we
 all mourn Malcolm this wonderful young warrior
 Sonia Sanchez said when she learned of his passing she walked all day
 walking the beautiful warrior home to our ancestors I just cried as all
 mothers cry for the beautiful boy who said he and Mike Tyson would
 never be allowed to be free at the same time who told the truth about
 them and who told the truth about us who is our beautiful warrior
 there are those who wanted to make him the problem who wanted
 to believe if they silenced 2Pac all would be quiet on the ghetto
 front there are those who testified that the problem wasn’t the conditions
 but the people talking about them
 they took away band so the boys started scratching they took away
 gym so the boys started break dancing the boys started rapping
 cause they gave them the guns and the drugs but not the schools and
 libraries
 what a beautiful boy to lose
 and we mourn 2Pac Shakur and we reach out to his mother and we
 hug ourselves in sadness and shame
 and we are compelled to ask:
 R U Happy, Mz Tucker? 2Pac is gone
 R U Happy?

DMU Timestamp: November 12, 2020 20:50





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