Tupac Amaru Shakur's recording of the song "Dear Mama," about a mother struggling with poverty and addiction to crack cocaine, is being preserved by the Library of Congress because of its "cultural significance."
Most of the people who might have been outraged by this are now devoting their full efforts to battling the "creeping influence of Sharia Law" in the United States, but there was a time when this would have been genuinely controversial.
Shakur's birthday was last week. Had he not been murdered he would have been 39 years old.
-- A. Serwer
