Perspective. Time is Nuts.

Via TNC:

In 1996, Jay-Z released Reasonable Doubt. Daisy Anderson, widow of escaped slave and USCT veteran Robert Anderson died two years later. In 2003 Jay-Z released The Black Album, the same year Gertrude Janeway, the last Union war widow died. A year later, Alberta Martin, the last Confederate widow passed.  Not even a decade later the country elected a black president, and Jay-Z is performing his lovely gutter music at his rallies.

Like John Tyler having living grandchildren, or whenever a WWI vet dies these days. I mean, wtf? The ever-long linkage of historical eras is trippy as hell.