Thursday, September 13, 2007

Today is the 11th anniversary of Tupac's murder. Tonight at Suite 181, 181 Eddy Street in San Francisco. There is a great speech by Tupac to the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. This is a really powerful speech.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=15116190&blogID=309550976.

Visit http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.5679/title.bay-area-to-honor-tupac for information about what's planned.

Also this weekend, Too Short is performing in West Oakland at the deFremery Park, 18th and Adeline Streets, in Oakland. It's mentioned in the Too Short article I gave you. If you missed it, visit www.eastbayexpress.com.

We listened to Words of Wisdom and had a really enlightened conversation about the themes elucidated in the work. A student in my earlier English 1B class read aloud the poem Liberty Needs Glasses (135), from Rose, a poem that shares similar themes as Wisdom. You might want to look at it.

Al and Zareth shared. They were strikingly similar in their references to historic absence of heroes in their histories, just those, as Tupac said, who "turned the other cheek." I disagree here. MLK Jr. has been unfairly propagandized.

The "peacemaker" is quite radical if one looks at his speeches just before he was killed, for instance, the Vietnam War, and the speech he presented to the striking garbage men in Detroit. Also, Malcolm X and King were not foes. In fact, Malcolm X went to Georgia to support King, but King was in prison, but he spoke at an event hosted by Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
See http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speechesFrame.htm

But as we have said, Tupac was a young man evolving. He speaks to this in the speech he gives at the Malcolm X Grassroots event.

What else? Oh, homework is to finish Chapter 2 and list some of the reoccurring themes. Identify minimally 5 arguments, and develop 5 thesis sentences of your own. We will take each others thesis sentences and develop an introductory paragrapb from one of them. We will read Chapter 3 and maybe 4 next week. We will also develop a few questions to explore in our first official essays.

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