The learning event I attended was the Tupac Amaru Shakur exhibit in Robert W. Woodruff library. The exhibit is opened to all AUC students and staff, from Monday-Thursday, 9:00am to 7:00pm. I attended the event on Tuesday November 9th 2015. There were no speakers or performers only tour guides to help assist you in attaining your information. The tour lasted about thirty minutes and I was given a pamphlet explaining what I just experienced. This was somewhat of a guided tour. They first explain to you what exhibit you are observing and then the rest of the tour is just you looking at archives. The guided tour can be accessed by making an appointment in the Archives Research center of the AUC library. The exhibit was completely mind
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Tupac had knowledge he had substance. What I saw today was a young black man that, if given enhanced guidance he could have gone on to accomplish many things. Sometimes you have to go be on listening to the beat of a song to really hear the lyrics. Going to this exhibit was beneficial to me because I learned a big lesson, what you see is never what something really is. Meaning before this event I always saw Tupac as that thug rapper from the hood. I did not know he was a man who wrote poems that encouraged the youth to make a change. One of the lines from his poem just stuck in my head, “The flower blooms with brilliance, and outshines the rays of the sun”. These are words you have to think about to understand. I would recommend this lyceum event to all students at Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and Morehouse no matter what classification they are. I would recommend it to them because this world has a ghastly way of portraying Black men as inane, hardcore, and rough. We sometimes learn through the wrong eyes. Before today I saw Tupac Shakur as that, rough, hardcore, and just another rapper. Today I see him as a poet who had the world on his
Tupac had knowledge he had substance. What I saw today was a young black man that, if given enhanced guidance he could have gone on to accomplish many things. Sometimes you have to go be on listening to the beat of a song to really hear the lyrics. Going to this exhibit was beneficial to me because I learned a big lesson, what you see is never what something really is. Meaning before this event I always saw Tupac as that thug rapper from the hood. I did not know he was a man who wrote poems that encouraged the youth to make a change. One of the lines from his poem just stuck in my head, “The flower blooms with brilliance, and outshines the rays of the sun”. These are words you have to think about to understand. I would recommend this lyceum event to all students at Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and Morehouse no matter what classification they are. I would recommend it to them because this world has a ghastly way of portraying Black men as inane, hardcore, and rough. We sometimes learn through the wrong eyes. Before today I saw Tupac Shakur as that, rough, hardcore, and just another rapper. Today I see him as a poet who had the world on his