So I went to see the Broadway musical Memphis. It was amazing. One of the major things in it was racial equality in the 60’s and the actors did a fantastic job of showing all the emotion each side had.
There was this older white man sitting next to me. He looked to be around 80 or 85 so he would have been young man in the 60’s. At the end of the play during the very last triumphant song everyone was standing and clapping and I could see a tear drip down his face. He couldn’t stop wiping his eyes. I just saw it on his face that he remembered everything from the past and all the racism he probably was told to have against blacks. I could tell though he wasn’t crying because the show was so great, moving or beautiful. He was crying because he sees now how things have changed for the better and he was happy. It’s crazy how one face could tell you all of this.
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