Tupac said, “We ain’t ready / to see a black president.”
He wrote and said those lines in his song “Changes” more than ten years ago. Now that President Obama is seated, Tupac’s song now only resonates of the apartheid and discrimination that Americans felt a decade and some odd years ago.
A decade and some odd years ago is not that long. It’s not too far away from the realms of memory, and it’s not in the category of, what to our generation is, the 60’s or 70’s – where events seem like myths and memorabilia considered relics.
A decade and some odd years ago is not that old.
It feels surreal that my eyes are witnessing the change most people past our generation longed for. It feels odd that the songs I listened to when I was growing up is now – to be correct – a page in history.
Tupac, it’s sad that you didn’t get to see your songs proven wrong.
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