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[Poll] Tupac 'Changes' Viz-a-Viz Obama's 'Change' : Today's America!
November 28, 2008 - 08:28 AM
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Tupac started with "I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living should I blast myself? I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black." All through the song, both it's lyrics and beatings with his voice would stress the burden of being black in his America. He continues with "Cops give a damn about a negro, pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero..." His dream as he continues, ("We gotta start makin' changes, learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers and that's how it's supposed to be" is an America -and the world at large- where colour does not entail demacations. the discomfort was so heavy on his heart he felt a chang would be hard: "That's just the way it is. Things'll never be the same. That's just the way it is."
All his later life, it seems his vision is capped up when he recites in the song:
"We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive."
Barack Obama's message was that of 'Change.' Has Tupac's "Changes' suddenly become irrelevant, and is America going to get back all the roughing up meted out on blacks and other minorities way back? Surely we are up for Change with Obama.
This reminds me of a mail that made its round not long ago with a big picture of President -elect Obama nicely framed up and gracefully placed on a wall reading:
"Mr. President, Now Available in Black!"
I can't help but feel happy at the change. Even if Obama does nothing to impact on the race issue (and I don't frankly think there is somethign so great he can do about it like declaring a compensation for each balck family), it is a consolation that at least, Mr. President of America is now Availbale in Black!
How much relieved are you to have Obama?
Thank God! Just what we needed.
(1 votes for 25%)
Good! A Break at Last
(0 votes for 0%)
Finally!
(2 votes for 50%)
May be we still have hope.
(1 votes for 25%)
Not Much
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I'm not sure
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Frankly? I'm scared.
(0 votes for 0%)
Worse is Coming.
(0 votes for 0%)
I knew that was the end.
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You never know!
(0 votes for 0%)
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