Tupac Rhetoric

4) Tupac starts the song with a very clear statement “I’m tired of bein’ poor and, even worse, I’m black” that announces what the song’s is going to talk about. In a decade where police brutality in Afro-American neighbourhood was a real debate, Tupac claims “Cops give a damn about a negro, Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he’s a hero”. Problems are never far from you in these communities even for the younger “Give the crack to the kids, who the hell care? One less hungry mouth on the welfare!”. In this song, Tupac seems to put the fault on the system that doesn’t help them in any way. These inequalities are necessary to keep the American system on track. As an example, the singer says “First ship’em dope and let’em deal to brothers. Give ‘em guns, take a step back, watch them kill each other”. In the second verse, Tupac puts more accent on racism “I see no changes, all I see is racist faces. Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races”. Overall, lyrics undoubtedly shows the presence of an ethical issue and the author protest by saying that things need to change all along the song “We gotta start makin’ changes, learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers”.

Three moral agents are present in this song. Racist people are obviously making the problem worse because they sink Afro-American communities by not respecting equality of chances. The
Maybe the religious background of the author influenced him to claim that people need to start loving each other to reduce hate in our world and therefore help to get rid of inequalities problems. The most evident value to find in this song is equality. That’s what the ethical issue is all about, Tupac asks for a country without low-income communities where problems are multiplicated by 10. Another value could be work because Tupac asks people to get up and work hard to change things. This value is an important part of the solution proposed by the