C. Delores Tucker was just as misguided as the average (Anti Hip-Hop) coli poster is.
She ascribed violence, suicide, spousal abuse etc. to fukking rap music instead of more
relevant factors that'd drive such behavior like being exposed to violence at a young age,
long term deep depression, and so on.
You can't attack a problem when you treat a genre of music as entirely more influential than it is in reality.
That wasn't activism, it was using a platform to verbally and financially attack someone, there's a difference
between disagreeing on something philosophically and then attempting to destroy someone by restricting
their free speech, the money they can make from it and their character as a human being.
I hate that she went about it the way that she did, but I do empathize. We're only just now beginning to understand the massive generational disconnect between pre and post civil rights blacks. C. Dolores Tucker grew up actively, visibly, forcibly oppressed - segregated schools, Klan rallies, lynchings, etc. But she also (I assume) grew up in a large, intact Black family, and felt a genuine kinship with other black folks regardless of class because of the shared experience of discrimination and oppression. For people in her generation, denigrating any black person made you a traitor - after all, we were all we had when it came to duking it out for our right to exist in this country. So when she comes across Tupac's music, with the backdrop of sky-high murder & addiction rates in the 80s and 90s, she went totally ballistic. She doesn't have the visceral experience of the civil rights "hangover" that Tupac's generation did - the nihilism, hopelessness, betrayal (by leaders and fellow average folk alike), etc. She just couldn't wrap her head around why a black man could have such negative things to say about his fellow black people - even though it was closer to reality than her (most likely) rosy-eyed view of black folks ever-improving, ever-advancing, and eventually triumphing.
An earlier poster wrote that he wished she just sat down with Pac and chopped it up with him, and I 100% agree. She shouldn't be let off the hook for what she did, but when you put it in context, it at least makes some sort of sense. She wasn't totally nuts - just uncharacteristically ignorant.
