Joe R. Mays-Holiday Analysis

From the 50s until now, I still think, our country has been through so much, but when will it not be able to take anymore? The world may never know. My grandfather, Joe R. Mays-Holiday, has always had a life of triumph and recovery even in some of the country’s darkest times. In addition, he is considered living legend to me. Moreover, he tells me some of the untold and taboo subjects from the things that has occurred in his lifetime. We take all of the little opportunities we have for granted. Little things like going outside on a sunny day, because when my grandfather was growing up the 1950s, he was not allowed to go outside much in the summer time because of one reason only, polio. Polio was a disease that later got eradicated

That summed up the fifties until the mid sixties. From the late sixties until the seventies, there was an uproar in society. Music began to cast a major role in everyday life, mood, and way of living. There is also many African American pioneers that had their breakout year during this time, even though JFK wasn 't black, he still had his break out year in the presidential election. He changed the political culture, but like everything else, people get tired of the same old things, partying was wearing off, people began to use drugs and violence, which brought out the new generation. My grandfather stated, "I remember when the N word was automatically a fighting word, but now everyone and their mother are saying it with no consequence."

Along came the eighties. The people from this time are now mostly found hidden behind bars somewhere for the rest of their lives or either somewhere trying their best to keep a decent lifestyle. Only a minority have actually came out and overcame deficits in their lifetime. In one the rapper, Young Dolph 's, song he stated, "Born in the eighties, crack babies." Which states that drugs were a big part of their culture. It almost works against everything society was trying to avoid. I almost feel blessed to say I came from the millennial generation, but at the same time, my mom was born in the