It's good to be the king ...
and it ain't bad being the First Daughter either! I see that 9-year old Sasha Obama was able to
practice her fledgling Chinese with China president Hu Jintao during his visit to the White House earlier this week.
Chinese isn't a language that we had available on the school menu back in the day when I was in school ... and I don't think that my young 'uns here in the Ohio public school system have that as an option either...
...of course,
our highest elected officer in Ohio doesn't go in much for diversity when it comes to languages or the people he works with. Newly-elected Governor John Kasich has managed to pick almost two-dozen people to his cabinet ... and he only wanted to work with other white folks.
He hasn't selected any people of color to serve in his cabinet. You have to go back to the pre-Civil Rights days of the 1950s to find an Ohio governor who was that afraid of Black or Brown people.
Elections have consequences ... and Black people are about to learn what it means when people like Kasich and Speaker John Boehner get into office. These are
folks who don't seem to want to be associated with African Americans in their workplace.
We need to keep a close eye on these folks over the next couple of years ...
and I need to learn a few words of Chinese in case I ever run into young Sasha!
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