I believe that quote is an important one to include here today because I find that quotes can make you sound more fancy and intelligent. They're a great way to align yourself with someone else's brilliance, and all you have to do is copy and paste. It's a sweet little scam, really.
I thought we could help celebrate it by remembering not only Dr. King's work, but my son's own reflections on race in this very special drawing from last month...
If you're having any trouble reading it, it says
I like my Dad.
My Dad is white.
I pretty much had the same reaction as his teacher.
I haven't had time to do an in-depth interview with him, but we did discuss it briefly and I'm happy and relieved to report the two sentences are not dependent on each other.
He wrote sentence 1: Because I'm "nice".
He wrote sentence 2: Because I'm "mostly white, But when he colors me a little apricot."
He then confirmed that these were completely separate thoughts, and that he does not like me BECAUSE I'm mostly white or even a little apricot.
But then as far as the drawing goes, he says it's not even of me, it's of him looking at a boat. Which is bullshit, given that I was the star of both sentences.
It's fine, at least I have my new hip-hop name: Li'l Apricot.
On to drawing 2...
Well I don't know really what else to say. Obviously his teacher took the easy road out. If I've ever seen a drawing that deserved a WOW --this is it !!
1 comment:
Let that kid's artistic talent grow. I think he has a real future in the arts.
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