Sasha and Malia: Bigger Than Miley Cyrus?

re: Sasha and Malia: Bigger Than Miley Cyrus?

TheMightyMidget — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:32:46 GMT

Recently there was an article that spoke about the languishing educational standards in our nation's schools, and by way of example the author chose to point out a certain factoid: that a significant population of America's youth, when shown a picture of two water fountains, one with the word "white" an the other with the word "colored" over it, could not explain the significance. The author took this as an example of the lack of proficiancy in American history among the young. I completely disagreed, seeing something else entirely bout that particular example.

I can think of no better end to the struggle my country has endured in healing the racial divide than two events, one fixed in time and the other ongoing: Today's inauguration of B Obama; and my young daughter having no conception whatsoever as to why anyone would ever be judged by the color of their skin.

"Judging by tonight, they won't even understand why putting a black family in the White House was such a big deal to begin with." Amen.

re: Sasha and Malia: Bigger Than Miley Cyrus?

helenjohn — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:30:25 GMT

Miley has a great voice and she looks awesome. I read here (www.projectweightloss.com) about how she stays in shape at her age and, wow, no wonder everybody’s talking about it.

re: Sasha and Malia: Bigger Than Miley Cyrus?

EmilyTroutman — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:40:58 GMT

So cute....! Kids in DC are really really excited!

Over the past week, I asked hundreds of people in DC, including lots of kids, to choose a word to represent how they feel about the inauguration of Barack Obama. I then took their portrait with the word! The words included "Proud," "Hopeful," "Skeptical," and "Angry." No one chose angry! But there were definitely some "Skeptical" people out there!! And "Curious" too.

Kids chose "Love" and "Obama". I think because little kids love to say "Obama." It has a good sound. Older kids, like age 8 or 9 chose the word "Excited" a lot.

The result of my photos is this great video/photo essay. It's really inspirational. The love for the Obamas is so moving.

http://vimeo.com/2895468

or www.emilytroutman.blogspot.com

The video definitely will help me remember DC's optimism and energy before everyone analyzes it to death!! --emily