So you tell me, who is responsible? Tucker says the structures were either abandoned, taken over by the city or donated to charities. In Philadelphia, for instance, things got so bad in the projects that they had to just blow a bunch of them up.
The couple got rid of the north Philadelphia properties before , when Gov. Tucker was the highest-ranking black woman official in any state government, according to newspaper articles written at the time. During her six years in the post, she is credited with helping to streamline the voter registration process in congressional elections. Jesse Jackson and other black activists as unjust and politically motivated.
An investigation conducted by Philadelphia Dist. LeRoy S. Zimmerman in found that Tucker used state employees to research and write speeches for which she was paid thousands of dollars. No criminal charges were filed. Tucker has had no luck in resurrecting her political career. She ran for lieutenant governor, U. A year after her last political defeat in , Tucker decided to launch her national crusade against rap, at the request of prominent members of the National Political Congress of Black Women.
The lawsuit charges Tucker with contractual interference, extortion and unfair business practices. Tucker says she did nothing wrong. They say she upset Jewish groups in Philadelphia during her congressional campaign when she criticized her opponent for not hiring black women for his staff while retaining a Jewish woman. Tucker maintains that the remark, made on a local radio talk show, was misconstrued.
Tucker also has raised eyebrows in the music industry for citing the work of Frances Cress Welsing, a Washington psychiatrist whose controversial racial theories have angered the Anti-Defamation League. The league released a statement criticizing Welsing for quotes attributed to her in George magazine regarding Jewish involvement in the production and distribution of gangsta rap music.
Tucker adamantly insists that she is not anti-Semitic. These smears against my character are outrageous. Knight says his detective team also uncovered evidence that Tucker--who refers to herself as the Honorable Dr. DeLores Tucker--never graduated from college. She derives her title from honorary degrees issued by Morris College in Sumter, S. But in Tucker came under fire for alleged improprieties-detractors charged her with using her employees to help write speeches for outside public-speaking engagements.
She was dismissed by Shapp, but Tucker defended her conduct and countered that it was her refusal to support Shapp's chosen successor that landed her in trouble; she said the potential governor would likely dismantle the state's affirmative action program once in office.
Prominent African Americans such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson also spoke out against what they felt was a politically-motivated firing. Over the next several years, Tucker herself made several runs for office, but was far more effective as a fundraiser and organizer for other African American political personalities.
In she became the first African American run for Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor post; she came in third. Tucker is usually cited in Ebony magazine's list of the " Most Influential Black Americans, " and her sway galvanized into a full-strength force in the early s when she launched a campaign against offensive rap music. Tucker's words struck a chord with the African American community, and the situation spiraled so far out of control that again, her detractors accused her of a range of misdeeds.
The fracas began when Tucker learned that her young grandniece had begun using words she heard in rap songs, and the parents of some of her friends severed their children's contact with the youngster.
Tucker began looking into some of the "gangsta" rap popular at the time with teenagers of a variety of backgrounds and was shocked to hear lyrics promoting an array of vices, violence, and a culture of disrespect. Launching a public-relations attack on the record-store chains that profited from such records, she began demonstrating outside retail outlets and was even arrested in Washington, DC, in As Tucker explained to Chicago Tribune writer Monica Fountain, "these images of black young kids acting like gangstas go all around the world.
Congressional hearings were held on the subject in , and soon afterward Tucker set her sights on an even larger target, the Time Warner media empire. The company distributed Interscope, whose rap subsidiary, Death Row Records, put out the recordings of some of the most popular gangsta artists. Tucker purchased stock in Time Warner, which allowed her the privilege of attending shareholders' meetings and speaking out.
At a May shareholders' meeting, she stood and asked the executives to read aloud the very lyrics through which their company reaped such profits. They refused.
Tucker also focused her ire at Time Warner chair Gerald Levin. Levin, how are we going to raise a race of people with no men? Not long after the incident, Time Warner sold its interest in Interscope. Tucker considered it a victory, but Death Row head Marion "Suge" Knight hired investigators and then filed suit against Tucker on behalf of his roster of artists.
She was accused of conspiracy and extortion as a result of a meeting with Knight at which two recording artists who were also National Political Caucus of Black Women members , Melba Moore and Dionne Warwick, were also present.
Supposedly the women offered Knight a deal to leave Interscope and sign with a black-owned record company they planned, but Tucker retorted that they had simply asked him to try for more positive messages in his artists' music. He said he would need "distribution" to engineer such a situation, and Moore and Knight agreed then to look into financing for such a possible black-owned enterprise. Some believed that Knight and the gangsta-rap camp had set Tucker up.
A smear campaign had indeed been launched against her, which brought up her Pennsylvania dismissal as well as the fact that in the s the properties her mother had owned and passed on to Tucker and her husband had deteriorated to substandard conditions. Tucker recounted in a Los Angeles Times interview with Chuck Philips that back then, she and her husband had "rented to displaced women on welfare with six or seven children who couldn't get housing anywhere else.
Called "narrow-minded" by some rappers who often called her out in their lyrics, Dr. Tucker picketed stores that sold rap music and bought stock in labels like Sony, Time Warner, and others in order to protest hip-hop at their shareholders' meetings. This case was eventually dismissed. In addition, it was announced that the North Building which is adjacent to the State Capitol Building, will be renamed the Secretary C.
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