When Hillary emerged from Chelsea's apt., a little girl ran up to her & asked her to pose for photo

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"The sense of possibility." That is a great point. A great way to word it. I get that, completely.

Something that really drove this home was a comment made by some politician guesting on one of the MSNBC shows, who also was the father of school-age children. He recounted one morning at the kitchen table, wherein his little girl was eating her breakfast on her little plastic placemat that featured all the Presidents. "Meet the Presidents," I think - because my kids had that one, too, along with the ones about the solar system, the map of the US, the map of the world, various dinosaurs, and so forth. He said his daughter looked up at him, after regarding that placemat, and asked - "why aren't there any girls?" And her dad concluded his interview segment by pointing out that this really gave him pause, and that he didn't have a good answer for her. Which was one of many reasons why he was supporting Hillary Clinton.

I remember reading about how amazing and revolutionary the whole concept was to wrap one's brain around, because of President Obama: the very idea that Black kids actually can now look at the Presidency, for the first time in ANY of our lives, and see themselves in the Oval Office because of who the occupant of that office is. But then, for me anyway, I started wondering how little Black girls see that. Do they see a difference? How do they see it, versus how little Black boys see it? Any of our Black sons surely sees himself in the Oval Office, since President Obama. How about our Black daughters? Or is something still not quite there yet?