DAY TEN: Song that Makes Me Sad
Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come
As uplifting as it was meant to be in the 60's during times of anguish to promote solidarity within the black race, the song Now reminds me of a traumatic past. I hate imagining my ancestors being chased by dogs and shot with high-powered water hoses in an effort to gain equality in a land where it should have been free. Cooke sings that A change is going to come and, probably to his dismay, we're still working towards that change now. Every time I hear it, I cry. I cry because of the past and because I think of all the new police brutality cases and how we're still being treated as less than.
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