Liberty needs Glasses

https://allpoetry.com/Liberty-Needs-Glasses


Tupac Shakur's "Liberty needs glasses" Is just as true now as it was in the past. The speaker speaks  of issues and cracks we have in our justice system that we overlook or are sometimes overrode as misinterpertuations and things that should be forgotten when facts clearly state otherwise. When Shakur writes "Justice bumbed into mutulu /  and trippin on geronimo pratt / but stepped right over oliver / and his crooked partner ronnie" (Lines 4-8) talk about how racial injustice in the justice system. People who comitted crimes who were white were punished far less harsh than if you were p a minority. When Shakur writes " while justice is on a rampage / 4 endangered surviving black males" (lines 13-14) ; This is a metaphor for police brutality (our justice system) which is still very apparent today. Cops targeting black men for no reason and then making an excuse that they were resisting arrst or seemed threatening. If these instances do not result in their death they usually result to them losing their lives in jail.

This poem is a look into the past and the future. These things that Shakur wrote about in his poem years ago are still around today but much worse than what they used to be. It kind of shows  a build of how a problem has been festering and now is the response which is backlash and killing, riots and retaliation, and ultimately innocent lives lost . This is  because people are angry because we have been ignoring a problem that liberty and justice need glasses if things were fixed we wouldn't have as many issues as we do now . The speaker is surrounded in a world where our liberty and justice sytem need to be fixed and adjusted and it is much like the world we live in now which is why it resonates with me.