My thoughts on the election through the words of 2Pac

I've been considering starting a blog for some time. Not because I think anyone in their right mind will want to read my random streams of consciousness any more than the millions of other bloggers out there, but because I love to write. And, if it just so happens that even one person finds value in any of my blogs, then I will have overachieved in the standards I've set forth.

Ok, here goes my first blog! As I said before, I've been thinking about doing this for a while and what better time to start than the day after what may very well be the most important election of my lifetime? Now, I'm no political buff, as you will discern below, but these are the thoughts I have.

I accidentally fell asleep about 10:45 p.m. Obama had a clear lead, he was over 200 electoral points, and I was just waiting up to hear the speeches. When I woke up at 5:10 a.m. with the TV still on and heard he had won, I had the strangest thought. Out of the millions of things that could have run through my mind, I thought about the 2Pac song Changes. About 3/4 of the way through the song he says, "and although it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to see a black president." That song was recorded 13 years ago and I can guarantee you that anybody who listened to it then never gave a second thought to that line, other than to agree with it. Thirteen years ago, the thought of a black president was pretty much inconceivable.

Thirteen years may seem like a long time, but it's really not. Not when you're talking about the kind of ideological and societal change we saw last night. I listened to the local hip hop station on my way into work today, and they talked how this makes all the simple-minded, hateful, racist people in America not matter anymore because America has spoken and showed how we truly feel. I couldn't agree more. 2Pac died 12 years ago, before Changes was ever even released, but if he were to suddenly come back today and see Barack Obama as President-elect, I be he'd be pretty surprised. As for me, I'm just glad. I think the right man won the race, and I can't wait for him to prove me right.

P.S. Some may think it's wierd for me to use 2Pac as my focus rather thank MLK Jr. or any other number of individuals, but, hey, these are just my thoughts as they come to me.

P.P.S. If you look up the song Changes on Wikipedia, it's already been updated to reflect Barack Obama's election, in reference to that line. The power of the World Wide Web!