The Mind Of An 8 Year Old (Get Ready To Smile And Be Inspired!) [View All]

[Yes We Did]

My mother called me up today... for the 5th time, because she wanted to tell me what my 8 year old sister thought about the presidential race.

The TV was on some cable news channel and they were discussing everything, showing all the candidates and such, when Autumn, (my sister) asked my mom who her dad was voting for.

My mom told her "He's voting for the old man." A minute or so later, Autumn asked my mom who she was voting for. She told her that she voted for Hillary.

Autumn watched for a bit longer and told my mom that she decided that she was going to vote for "the guy with the dark hair" because he looked like her dad.

Now, it should be said that her dad is Italian, and our mom is pastey white and they live in a semi-rural area and have absolutely no friends that are african american, hispanic or arabic...

So, I just found it amazing that an 8 year old child raised in an almost all white world would pick a candidate that was african american, and not even see skin color; just see that his hair was dark like her daddy's.

(Please, try to keep this polite. This is meant to be a nice friendly happy post and I would like to keep it that way.)

I just found that so beautiful and had to share it with you.

See, there is hope for this country. It just goes to prove that one day racism might become a thing of the past. Maybe we should start letting our children tell us who to vote for.

Oh, here she is in a cute little anti-bush video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c00iO_AbPF4