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by typomatic 2954 days ago
I agree that American culture is the problem. The way we oppress black people every day and force them into these ugly situations where they're forced to choose between criminality and inhumanity, it's no wonder that this happened to Tupac and thousands of other black men.
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To be fair, 2Pac went to a performing arts high school, was a poet and actor, and sold 75 million albums. Seems like he had a good chance at avoiding his fate.
Neil Degrasse Tyson had many these advantages too and American culture didn’t hold him back at all. Not that he didn’t face prejudice at all but it very clearly wasn’t a roadblock.

Eminem had no social advantages and he got caught up in the thug life that Tupac (specifically) inspired.

What policies in American culture can you identify and point to that oppress black people specifically? What do you do that oppresses black people?