So I'm driving home from family vacation at the beach, and I'm in the middle row sitting next to my daughter. The guys are taking turns driving, and my grans are in the back seat playing and talking over one another. Nothing unusual about that and no one is paying particular attention to their conversation. I'm playing a game on my cell phone and my daughter is practicing her Spanish. I hear my ten year old grandson bet his five year old sister that she does not "even" know who was the first president of the United States! Well! Females being females, her neck start to move from side to side in rhythm with the words that are coming out of her mouth... "Oh yes I do know who the first president of the United States was" she indignantly exclaimed! Who? Her brother dares her - she looks in square in the eyes and matter of factly says, "Mart'n Luffa King!"
The car lit up in laughter! I look at my daughter and I say, "how did she come up with that answer?" My daughter analyzes it this way... Well mother, she says, Barrack Obama is the only president she has known in her lifetime. He's a black man, so it would stand to reason that the only other black male that she knows of that stature is Dr. King, so he had to be the first president because he's black too!
Thank you President Obama! You gave a vision to an entire generation.
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