medal of Honor – madona (it kinda rhythms)

Very good annotation the only thing I would add is that I feel like when Tupac says “our women” I think he’s referring to the black woman. Black women have been held back since the beginning of time through society. I think Tupac implied that it’s time for us to “heal” our black women.

The lack of respect for women in the Black community is an issue that has only grown since this song. In today’s rap music, women are portrayed as inferior, sexual play toys, and untrustworthy. It comes from a lack of respect and hate. Clearly, we have not heeded to Tupac’s warning.

Sadly, 2Pac’s prophecy came true….

Also speaks to history of enslaved and intermarried Black women – particularly in Northern African and East African Arab societies whose children reject and hate them, assimilating into the dominate culture instead.

Sexual assault is a tactic used to destroy the human family unit. Pac knew this was a tactic used on black women not only from white men but from black men as well. Pac successfully talks about black women and women as a whole. His ability to do this makes him a great lyrical poet.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded the world of the violence of women when he wrote the following letter to the Constitution, a newspaper in Atlanta when he was a Sophomore at Morehouse College:
“Editor Constitution:
I often find when decent treatment for the Negro is urged, a certain class of people hurry to raise the scarecrow of social mingling and intermarriage. These questions have nothing to do with the case. And most people who kick up this kind of dust know that it is simple dust to obscure the real question of rights and opportunities. It is fair to remember that almost the total of race mixture in America has come, not at Negro initiative, but by the acts of those very white men who talk loudest of race purity. We aren’t eager to marry white girls, and we would like to have our own girls left alone by both white toughs and white aristocrats.
We want and are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens: The right to earn a living at work for which we are fitted by training and ability; equal opportunities in education, health, recreation, and similar public services; the right to vote; equality before the law; some of the same courtesy and good manners that we ourselves bring to all human relations.
M. L. KING, JR.
Morehouse College.
PD. Atlanta Constitution, 6 August 1946.
Kick Up Dust – Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Violence used as a way to keep a group of people thinking they are second class citizens was explained by, well known Black Panther, Elridge Cleaver, who admitted in his book, “Soul on Ice”, to the rape of black women as practice so he could move up to raping white women.

I think he meant how Obama was saying Yes We Can and his slogan of Change.