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Man charged with vandalism of Tupac Shakur statue (Can't be a hate crime 'cuz perp is black)
AJC ^ | Nov 2, 2007 | DAVID SIMPSON

Posted on 11/03/2007 5:18:18 PM PDT by TankerKC

A 43-year-old DeKalb man was charged this week with the recent vandalism of a statue of Tupac Shakur at the arts center named for the slain performer.

DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said investigators have no reason to believe the suspect, Kenneth Anthony Wilson, had a racial motive in the Oct. 20 incident. Wilson, who lives on North Hairston Road near the center on Memorial Drive, is African-American.

A spokeswoman for the center last week said she was told a noose was placed around the neck of the statue and the incident was being investigated as a hate crime.

Parish reiterated Thursday that the object was a cross on a string. Police also said underwear was placed on the head of the statue and "defamatory" stickers and papers were left on the statue and a nearby sign.

Wilson was charged Thursday with second-degree criminal damage to property, a felony. He was being held in the DeKalb jail under a $1,500 bond.


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KEYWORDS: fakehatecrimes; statue; tupacshakur
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To: 359Henrie

Ah, that was funnier than I realized at first!


41 posted on 11/04/2007 3:15:19 AM PST by Tax-chick (When my mother ship lands, you're all toast!)
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To: TankerKC

I heard this on the news and all I could think was....”WHO CARES?”

Yup- they named an “arts center” after this worthless, no-talent gangbanger-wannabe, but given the state of the “arts” these days, no one should really be surprised. Besides, we have a long history of canonizing the strangest people here.

How this jerk lived is how he died. You can take the boy out of the slum, but you can’t take the slum out of the boy...


42 posted on 11/04/2007 3:26:01 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: TankerKC

TwoPack is to art what Arafat was to peace.


43 posted on 11/04/2007 3:36:36 AM PST by Cyman
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To: Jet Jaguar
Wow! What a contrast!

Political correctness is a joke.

That should definitely go in the next Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham book.

44 posted on 11/04/2007 3:50:20 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: spunkets
All this is a felony? They have really bizarre folks there in the DeKalb prosecutor's office, but more importantly, really bizarre folks in the IL legislature that provided such a law.

Wrong DeKalb. This is DeKalb County, Georgia.

I'm guessing that, unless there's some permanent damage not mentioned in the article, they overcharged the case to jack up the bail and/or intimidate the defendant, and it'll never go to trial as a felony.

45 posted on 11/04/2007 3:58:01 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: Hexenhammer
I can’t believe they named a performing arts center after that clown, hahaha.

http://www.tasf.org/about.asp

Founded by Tupac's mother, an out-there lefty, to be sure -- Tupac Amaru Shakur was named for the Marxist rebel group in Peru. You might remember them as the ones who seized the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima several years ago, and were killed, to a man, in a command raid.

But that aside, the "arts center" is funded by a fundation founded by Tupac's mother. I've only driven by it, but it sounds like a pleasant place, and Tupac's name attracts kids who wouldn't be into the Ray Charles, let alone Ray Stevens, arts center. If it gives them something to do and keeps them off the streets, I've got no problem with it.

46 posted on 11/04/2007 4:19:34 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: tbw2

“If they found the “noose” and had not caught the perp in the act, then it would have been determined to have been a horrible hate crime by evil white guys who should be burned at the stake. Riots to follow.”

That pretty much what the center alluded to in their press release. Notice they described a piece of string with a cross tied to it a “noose”. Then the cops caught a black guy in the act. No word from the center.


47 posted on 11/04/2007 5:22:41 AM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Unfortunately he did, but he had a different side. He was to rap what Kurt Cobain was to rock. I'd expand on the subject more but I won't waste the thread's time.

I can't call myself a huge fan, but I agree with you that there was a lot going on in his music, and I'm glad not to be the only one around here who rejects hip-hop, or even "gangsta rap," out of hand.

My favorite music is jazz, but as I've lived and learned, I've come to the conclusion that most music of just about any genre is crap. But the flip-side of that is in every genre, there are smart and creative people with interesting ideas; and even if the music isn't among my favorites, I can appreciate it.

I used to reject most hip-hop and electronica out of hand, because my background is in playing "real" (brass) instruments, and I had disdain for anyone who "makes music" by remixing the performances of other people couldn't be worth the time of day. It was Moby who first turned me around on that -- he was the first guy who was doing clever enough things that he turned mixing into a form of composing.

From there, I started finding gems in music I'd never deigned to listen to before. As I said, even if it doesn't set my toes a-tapping, listening with an analytical ear, I can appreciate it.

48 posted on 11/04/2007 6:15:10 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: Jet Jaguar

the novel way that he is carrying his pistol may have some serious conseuences if there were a accidental discharge


49 posted on 11/04/2007 6:18:59 AM PST by bigjackattack
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To: bigjackattack

If more people like that shot off Mr. Wiggles, it would be a real benefit for society.


50 posted on 11/04/2007 7:55:27 AM PST by Tax-chick (When my mother ship lands, you're all toast!)
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To: Enchante

Thanks for the Wiki link. His life, background and misdeeds were so eye-openingly disfunctional that it’s no surprise what happened to him.

I don’t think I could ever try to listen to his stuff objectively, even if I tried.

But let’s put more statues up of him and tear down ones of such racists as George Washington, etc.


51 posted on 12/03/2007 11:49:33 AM PST by pollwatcher (the liberal mind works like a parachute - drifty and groundless)
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To: pollwatcher
Well I did think this bit epitomized the lunacy of many academics on the cultural left who have no intellectual standards and simply rant about whatever b.s. suits their predilections:

"Many of the speakers discussed Shakur’s status and public persona, including State University of New York English professor Mark Anthony Neal who gave the talk “Thug Nigga Intellectual: Tupac as Celebrity Gramscian” in which he argued that Shakur was an example of the “organic intellectual” expressing the concerns of a larger group"
52 posted on 12/03/2007 5:43:51 PM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Not everyone here watches NASCAR and listens to Trace Adkins, OK?”

:D


53 posted on 12/03/2007 5:48:08 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: pollwatcher

The only rapper I could ever listen to was George Burns, and he was awful.


54 posted on 12/03/2007 6:10:30 PM PST by chesty_puller (70-73 USMC VietNam 75-79 US Army Wash DC....VietNam was safer.)
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To: TankerKC

I think it the police report was faked, and the real Tupac statue is in hiding.


55 posted on 12/03/2007 6:14:54 PM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Scary thought: Half of all people are dumber than the average person.)
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