Kendrick Lamar (Social Justice Event)

Growing up in my cozy neighborhood, in my cozy town, where there are no problems, I had a sense of the invisible shield that whites have as McIntosh points out in his piece. I faced no problems in my life so far, and never had to worry about any big problems, and getting into any real trouble. while Kendrick Lamar was different.

As we talked in class not to many people think that blacks should be able to succeed. How they should just be shown how to work, and just be part of the working class, rather than being successful as his fellow white man, but Kendrick had other plans.

Kendrick grew up in Compton, and he even points out in some of his songs the struggles of being a black from Compton. hes had to avoid drugs, being shot he points out in one interview, every obstacle life has thrown at him to fail, he has rise above it and is living life as one of the best rappers, and entertainers in the industry right now. He has shown the world that even though people have these judgements of how you should turn out, he proved that that was wrong and if you try you can make your own way through life.

At his concerts that I attended on April 19th at Gample arena on the University of Connecticut campus, there were no blacks, whites, girls, guys, gays, straight, gays  none of that stuff, just everyone coming together to listen to this one man tell us his stories for a couple of hours. Everyone was there and had a good time, there were no rules or codes of power to follow, or white privileged that some whites that they think they have over everyone else, just everyone was together as equal. 









Kendrick Lamar's Childhood



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