I heard something this morning while watching the news on TV this morning that made me tear up. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot since I tear up at toothpaste commercials, nevertheless what I heard was very moving to me.
Apparently last night - during the Election results - on a local news station, a reporter was going around asking people what they felt about Barack Obama becoming our President Elect of the United States. With his son with him, he turned to the camera and said (I'm paraphrasing), "Now when my son asks me what he can be when he grows up I can honestly tell him that he can be anything he wants to be."
Hearing this made literally brought tears to my eyes. First of all, to think that there are parents today (again, it's 2008!!) who felt up until last night (or possibly still feel) that they couldn't honestly offer up that idea of hope to their own children just breaks my heart. Is that how I will feel with my child? Is that a feeling my parents ever had? That loss of hope?
Just because my (future) child's skin color might be a different shade than most. Just because they will have a different culture than most does not make them any less capable of becoming anything or anyone they want to be, especially the leader of our country. And you can be damned sure I'm going to let them know that every single day of their lives!
1 comment:
You know..even as a honkie, that makes me tear up.
Our kids can, and will be. anything they want. I just hope they grow up in a world that isn't judgmental or limiting in any way.
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