jason g 718 said:
Whoa! I think you're 100% wrong there. I think the person that 2pac truly was (not the person he was in the media's eye) is a very good person for kids to look up to.
Tupac is a truly monumental & inspirational figure but, IMO, he shouldn't be looked up to as some kind of 'hero'.
Mahatma Gandhi's a hero. MLK's a hero. Huey P. Newton's a hero. Che Guevara's a hero.
Tupac Shakur ain't a hero
Like I said in my post, there was a struggle going on with Tupac & while you could say MLK had faults (his love of women), Tupac's faults were regularly present.
I think that he was essentially a good person, but there was a lot of hate in Tupac & he was often corrupted by much of the negative influences surrounding him.
Don't think I am ignoring all his good points (before I get about a thousand posts saying this shit & that shit), because we all know his good points. What I am doing is saying Tupac was an Angel at heart, but often expressed himself as a Devil.
I judge a 'hero' on the righteousness of their heart, principles & actions. Tupac definitely had the first, at times the second was wayward & the third was often wayward.
In a previous thread someone tried to equate Tupac with Gandhi - although realizing the poster must not know much of Gandhi, I gladly told him he was a fool.
If anyone else thinks Tupac can be put in the same bracket as those I listed as 'heroes', I will do the same to them.