Yesterday, I read this short piece on the Huffington Post, which I thought was pretty good about parenting and education. Watch the clip, and notice the expectations that the President has for his children:
I could not agree with the President more that parents have to set high expectations in the home. This doesn’t start with teachers, it begins at home. Also note how his daughter Malia told him, “I just like having knowledge.”
This message from the President is one that all American parents, but especially Latino parents, need to internalize and make the norm within their families.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Anna // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:02 pm
It’s going to take more than a speech from Obama. It’s going to take a massive shift in the culture, but nobody likes to hear that.
2 El Cholo // Nov 6, 2009 at 9:33 pm
What a change from the last eight years.
3 Paulette // Nov 7, 2009 at 7:02 am
The culture didn’t shift in my non-welfare home. African American parents must redefine success for themselves and their children. They could begin by not purchasing Kobe (Lakers) clothing, don’t purchase JayZ concert tickets and don’t bother going to see Tyler Perry and Oprah’s another-big-fat-black woman Precious(ly) molested by an absent black father. El Cholo it is a change from eight years weekly vacationing George Bush.
4 theKaiser // Nov 7, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Exactly…definitely a positive change from the last eight years, finally we have a President and an administration working for all of us.
5 Anna // Nov 9, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I said that Obama cares for Wall St, not us and it gets deleted? Wow. I don’t think anything I have said has ever been deleted.
Well here’s more: I think Obama is a sexist and a homophobe. I don’t think he’s qualified to be President, and I think that anybody who voted ‘Present’ over 100 times has no core values that he is willing to stand up for and will throw anybody under the bus. I think he ran a sexist primary campaign, and I think it was wrong to appear with that reformed gay preacher Donnie McClurkin, just as it was abhorrent to invite to the inauguration that bigot Warren. I think these liberal Obamabots were really dumb not to see these signs during the primary.
The Democratic Party is not supposed to be about exclusion and sexism and homophobia.
As for his speech on education, it is very easy to make a speech, but much more difficult to fight for adequate education funding. That takes conviction and tenacity. Instead he drains the education budget and sends our money to war contractors and Wall St. thieves.
6 Reyfeo // Nov 9, 2009 at 6:10 pm
“Obamabots”…Good one Anna, hope you don’t mind if I use this and twist it a bit…NObamabots!! Sweet!!
7 Reyfeo // Nov 9, 2009 at 6:13 pm
…and yes, I think you’re right on target with this wanna be President’s inexperience and lack there of any conviction.
8 Reyfeo // Nov 9, 2009 at 6:15 pm
…last one I promise…if he keeps it up, he’ll start to make Bush look like Einstein.
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