Ebony and Ivory
By raincoasterIt’s probably best if I just let the pix tell the story in this case:
From April Winchell:
And there was this kid at the rally, I think he was about six years old. He was black, and sitting up on his dad’s shoulders. He had an Obama-Biden sign, and for what I swear was about 3 hours straight, he held the sign straight up, with the most determined look I had ever seen on a six-year-old’s face. And then this other kid appeared, a white kid, on his dad’s shoulders. And all of a sudden they were sharing the sign back and forth. And then, then they held it together. And…it was so simple, SO simple. Yet, at the same time, it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen, and the great part was that they had no idea what they were doing. Everyone looked at them, people took pictures, but they were just holding a sign. “Little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls…” It was so simple.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Very cool. From the pic, it looked like just the white boy giving it to the black boy, but I like that they passed it back and forth.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
These pictures had me sobbing big, fat tears of joy. The future looks very bright indeed.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Great photo set.
Liz, I’ve been looking at that future for the past 8 years, ever since my kids started school. They’re completely color blind regarding race, as they should be. It’s awesome.
I have to say, the only “race” that the kids are socially aware of is Native American, and that’s because of one Native American kid at their school who makes a point of sounding off over how oppressed his people have been by whites. The kid has a point, but when his tribe is raking in millions of dollars from the casinos every day, it gets a bit old. It was also hard to take when he spent the entire time the second graders were doing their Thanksgiving play about Squanto and the Pilgrims shaking his head and glowering, proclaiming it all lies when it was over — especially since the play talked about how Squanto’s entire tribe was decimated by illness that the colonists had brought with them. It was grade-appropriate but not sugar coated, and certainly not lies. Kids like that, I worry about.