The whole "CIA is trying to destroy the Black community" thing was seen as a conspiracy by what we'd call "Hotep" nikkaz today.
Remember how much disdain Franklin had for his Panther parents. He viewed them as losers
Man, time for my overly deep breakdown...
Tried to avoid spoilers, even though I kept seeing people post picture of the Saint that was down bad...
But wow, that shyt was well done. It's actually bothering the hell out of me, which is signs of a show that really sticks to my core, and I love it.
First of all, it's crazy getting older. Because that CIA/Crack stuff is so openly known now, it's considered common knowledge.
But growing up, anyone who said that was the equivalent to people who talk about aliens and lizard people today, and used to get laughed off the block, and ALWAYS were drunks and fiends. No one took that seriously, and those people were usually seen as losers on the corner.
To people complaining that Frank never appeared to be a villain, are looking too surface level.
He sold out his hood to the slum lord from Season 1, essentially turning South Central into hell. They dont explicitly say that, but you gotta peep game.
He got a fate worse than death or jail, if you know what you are watching. While winning at the same time, in a weird way.
Because death, he is a legend. Remember with Jerome died, and those dudes were rapping about him? That's how we rap about Alpo and Pablo. Remembered forever. In jail, he would've been one of those protected bosses, like so many of dudes like him end up. Sad, but not worse than becoming totally forgotten and alone. He became his Dad, and his son will hate him like he hated his Dad.
No one who wasn't there will believe who he ever was. Since it showed rap and movies were about to take over, all his little dogs and the kids are gonna become big dogs off of the stories of him, Leon, Skully, Rome, etc, while laughing at the "bum" on the corner. He could go to the police, media, every kid on the street telling his story, and no one will believe him since he lived in the shadows, had his criminal record erased, and his peoples are dead, so he's going to come off as the crazy person making shyt up about the CIA tapping his phone was living in an alley.
And they were filming Boyz N the Hood, as you saw the kids wearing the same clothes from the actual movie, which was a dope easter egg. While the biggest kingpin walked through the set and no one even glanced at him.
Top that off, he lived his life straight in terms of no drugs or drinking, but that shyt is in your system. I KNOW people who never did it before, tried it once at 25 and was gone for life, and remember - Frank was still in his 20s!! We forget that all these black kingpins were still 22 year olds, which is crazy.
He also still had a glimmer in his eye that Leon saw. That last speech showed that the real Franklin is buried in the back, and thats the one who told him he was proud and free. Because he had nothing, no expectations, no money, no crew, no one trying to kill him, he literally got out of the game - of life. He died while still living. Still having nightmares, still remembering what he did to others and what he saw.
And if you have ever seen or known anyone like this in life, it's some scary shyt man. Because Im reading social media comments and mad ppl are saying its unrealistic, while I know in my real life people who had Bentleys in 2007 who are rambling on the corner or driving dump trucks in a job in Alabama today, and no one would believe if I told you they was ON ON...
These shows that show how forgotten you become always hit for me. Like Omar in the Wire, he did the worlds illest shyt but none of his story will ever be told - his death was just a blurb in the back corner of newspaper, while he was a hood superhero villain. Same for Frank. People will walk past one of the illest killer drug kingpins to ever live and his story life and death will not matter to anyone except for Leon when he hears about it one day in 2016 or something, while he with his family or doing a VladTV interview.
One last thing, is that this is a crazy world. There are people sitting right next to you on the bus that has seen and lived some of the craziest experiences, and you will never know...
, you should have ended the show despising the character. The hell is a character like that getting any sort of "sad ending" for? 
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