A New Weekend in America
My friend Jenny said it best, "The world is doing the wave this week." And, nobody's arms are flying as high as Mommies raising tomorrow's generation. After the election, I slipped a kid's book called "Mama Voted for Obama" in Karen's mailbox. Her adopted Korean cutie loves tall buildings, shaking his hips to rap, magic sticks from Brazil, and now, a self-deprecating mutt soon to take office and make everything better - Barack Obama.
Some of the pages from the book include "She didn't vote for a sly fox or a blue ox or a cat named Socks, Mama voted for Obama!" or "She didn't vote for a gorilla or chinchilla or Godzilla, Mama voted for Obama." If only they sold the book for single fathers, Joe the Papa would be getting a copy as well.
posted by Sonja Stark of PilotGirl™ @ 9:16 AM
1 Comments:
What a wonderful book!
And how important it is for children to learn early that this country consists of many ethnicities and cultural heritages, that its great strength comes from the harmonious blend of these influences, that its weakness comes when intentional divisiveness comes to the fore.
Growing up in Connecticut, I can remember tv stations running a PSA about racial harmony, that 'if you want good harmony, it takes more than one, it takes two or three' referring to the instruments in a band and to the different backgrounds of a society's citizens who can all work together to promote the greater good.
I remember it still and believe it still.
I'm happy because we will soon have a highly intelligent person in the White House, not because that person has a specific skin color or a specific gender, a non-sexist person who will be a role model for all races, who believes in being a citizen of the world and as far as I'm concerned, he can't take office soon enough!
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