Comments on: Inauguration Day 2009 http://www.oldschooldad.org/2009/02/inauguration-day-2009/ OSD Tag Line goes here. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Patricia L. H. Cook http://www.oldschooldad.org/2009/02/inauguration-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Patricia L. H. Cook Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:41:03 +0000 http://www.oldschooldad.org/?p=86#comment-73 Outstanding testimonial. Truly, we have come a long way! God Bless America. Pat H. Cook, Author, "My Mama Wrote It!" Outstanding testimonial. Truly, we have come a long way! God Bless America.
Pat H. Cook, Author, “My Mama Wrote It!”

]]> By: Martyn http://www.oldschooldad.org/2009/02/inauguration-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Martyn Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:40:44 +0000 http://www.oldschooldad.org/?p=86#comment-72 Betti recently published "Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota" from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Betti recently published “Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota” from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press.

]]> By: Suzanne Bird-Harris http://www.oldschooldad.org/2009/02/inauguration-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Suzanne Bird-Harris Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:12:47 +0000 http://www.oldschooldad.org/?p=86#comment-71 Betti - I so appreciate and resonate with what you've written here. I, too, am the mother of bi-racial children - a son and a daughter. I wept - literally - as I sat glued to the TV on Inauguration Day. So much possibility is now before us. But more than that, what President Obama's election and inauguration mean to me, personally, is that I no longer have to wonder if my son is thinking, "easy for you to say, Mom, you're white" when I tell him he can do and be anything he wants to do or be in this world. Always before, while I truly believed what I was telling him, there was a little smidgen of doubt, a little chance that my white skin made me particularly naive in that regard. No more. <abbr><em>Suzanne Bird-Harris's last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/vAssistantServices/~3/514310655/">In Other Words: January 16, 2009</a></abbr></em> Betti – I so appreciate and resonate with what you’ve written here. I, too, am the mother of bi-racial children – a son and a daughter. I wept – literally – as I sat glued to the TV on Inauguration Day. So much possibility is now before us.

But more than that, what President Obama’s election and inauguration mean to me, personally, is that I no longer have to wonder if my son is thinking, “easy for you to say, Mom, you’re white” when I tell him he can do and be anything he wants to do or be in this world. Always before, while I truly believed what I was telling him, there was a little smidgen of doubt, a little chance that my white skin made me particularly naive in that regard. No more.

Suzanne Bird-Harris’s last blog post..In Other Words: January 16, 2009

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