Comments on: To my daughter on November 5,

By: Kate B

Kate B — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:21:40 +0000

Meljean,
I know that my niece, your daughter, is way to intelligent to want to be president. She will change the world in even geater and more significant ways.
And yes the parental units are staunch republicans.

By: Gennita Low

Gennita Low — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:22:35 +0000

*sniff*

Beautiful letter and thank you for sharing.

By: Maya M.

Maya M. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:51:18 +0000

My parents married across ethnic lines in Massachusetts a generation ago, at a time when the marriage certificate still asked them to tick color boxes. They wrote ‘white’ and ‘brown’ respectively.

One of the changes I hope will occur, if it hasn’t already, is for such information no longer to be considered relevant to collect.

By: Julia B.

Julia B. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:13:14 +0000

Beautiful!

By: meljean

meljean — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:47:21 +0000

Echo — our parentals are the reason I can marry the man I have, and have the daughter I do, and probably why I’m a writer. It’s definitely not them, or their political party — as far as I can see, we only disagree about policy and issues. If the situation had been different and their candidate had been mixed race and mine white, they’d have still voted for their guy. Yeah?

:slashyhug:

By: Echo

Echo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:19:58 +0000

Well, yes you know the parentals did not vote for Obama…but you know we support that little wonder girl of your with everything we are. I so believe that she can be anything she wants. I also can’t wait for Thanksgiving day now!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:32:03 +0000

Ok – you made me cry. That was really great Meljean.

As I told my daughters (6 & 10 years old) that no matter who you vote for you take a risk. We never know what will happen once a candidate gets into office. But it is definitely nice knowing that the world our kids grow up in will be different.

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:09:20 +0000

Everytime Barack said, “yes we can”, a chill went down my spine. Yes, we can whoever we are, in whatever we do.

By: meljean

meljean — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:28:23 +0000

It still feels like a good day.

The great thing is, I also feel good because I voted solely on the issues and policy, and many of those with my daughter in mind — and there was no racial motivation either for or against when I cast my vote. So this particular change — which is truly a historic moment, whatever an individual’s position on issues and policy — was just a bonus.

Anyway. I don’t talk politics much here and that’s not going to change, but I also feel that this was something that transcends politics and the question of who was going to be President.

And conversation around the Thanksgiving dinner table down at my parents’ house might be really interesting this year

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:13:55 +0000

What a wonderful message to your daughter. She is very fortunate to have parents that will surely help guide her way to the presidency (or other equally great things)!