Pride In The Panther

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Kayla WRTG 100 Professor Jeffrey Final Paper: Final Draft Imagine this, it is present day you are in your house when out of nowhere you hear screaming and several police cars outside of your building. You immediately get up from your seat to have a look out your window. You see five to six white police officers surrounding one black man and holding him down on the ground. First you think, what did this man do? Could he just have killed someone? As you're thinking this you witness all of the police officers kicking the man and brutally beating him with their batons until the man is lying unconsciously on the ground, face full of blood. Would you go out there to help the man? This is actually a true story that happened on March…show more content…
Below is a poem written by Tupac about Black Panthers it is called “Can You See The Pride In The Panther”: Can You See the Pride In the Panther As he grows in splendor and graceTopling obstacles placed in the way,of the progression of his race.Can You See the Pride In the Pantheras she nurtures her young all aloneThe seed must grow regardlessof the fact that it is planted in stone.Can You See the Pride In the Panthersas they unify as one.The flower blooms with brilliance,and outshines the rays of the sun. This poem is an excellent example of the belief system of not just Panthers but many African Americans who felt they needed to “unify as one” in order to progress as a race. In this poem Tupac imitates his mother struggling to take care of her “young” referring to Tupac and his other siblings. In the line “the seed must grow regardless of the fact that it is planted in stone” he is describing the seed as him and the stone meaning being poor growing up in the “ghetto.” He uses the term stone because the belief is that if you are born in the ghetto (where most African Americans were from) you are starting from scratch and if you want to succeed in life you have to work extremely hard and even if you do work hard you could be getting no where. He can also be referring “stone” as a black person trying to be successful in the…show more content…
He makes up a metaphor about a hotel having food and him politely singing for food everyday and they tell him they do not have any even though he has seen it. He stands outside singing his way “we are hungry please let us in!” After time goes by of begging the song is going to change to “we hungry we need some food!” After weeks go by of no food the song changes to “give me some food I'm going to break down the door!” He than says after years it changes to just picking the lock and getting what you need to survive. In the interview Tupac gives this metaphor as his reasoning to why he is so full of rage. That is a metaphor for black people “asking” for equality. Tupac says “we asked with the panthers and we asked with the civil rights movement now it is time to act.” Even though Tupac was so “pro black” and not many white people who be caught dead listening to his music, now in the twentieth century it is common for any one to listen to any artist from any race. During Tupac's time some of his songs were banned, now if you put on the right station at the right time they will do an afternoon broadcast of him. This just shows how much we have been influenced by each other and are growing as one being rather than every race growing seperately. At such a young age Tupac was well educated and politically conscious. Unlike his ancestors he was able to have access to many books such as
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