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Originally posted by Turnbull:
Patrick, you probably know that Tupac was the son of Afeni Shakur, a well-known political activist and Black Panther of the Sixties and Seventies, and his stepfather was Mutulu Shakur, who was accused of masterminding the famous Brinks truck robbery and dual murder of 1981 near Tarrytown, NY. That act was regarded as the last gasp of the SDS "Weathermen" faction, and resulted in the arrest and conviction of famous radical Kathy Boudin, who was finally released from prison last year.
Yes. Afeni was actually also supposed to go to jail and was pregnant in jail with Tupac. She beat the case as her own lawyer. Mutulu is still in jail and actually wrote a letter to Tupac the night that Tupac got shot, which you can read here (if you want). Mutulu also helped him write the codes of Thug Life. What surprises me the most, is that Henry Hill really reminds me of Tupac. In commentary on the Goodfellas DVD, when they're showing all of Henry's friends, he says, "It's strange. All of these guys are dead or in jail. The mafia will never ever be the same." Tupac says the same thing about the Black Panthers in his autobiography. -Pat

"After every dark night, there's a bright day right after that. No matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it." -Tupac Shakur