I reserve the right to delete this post at some point in the near or far future. That date will probably come when my daughter's web surfing and reading skills improve significantly to the point where she might decide to sit down and read her ol' poppy's blog.

That being said, let me start with another disclaimer. Daisy is a smart and capable child. She does some mighty impressive things for a six year old. She reads above her level, has a solid grasp of many mathematical concepts, and can do a slew of music-related activities far better than her old man. What she doesn't do particularly well is draw.

Let us mock.

One of her current school assigments is to do a book report on a biography of Rosa Parks. Part of that effort includes creating a Rosa Parks poster. Here is Daisy's poster. I have entitled it, "Apparently, Rosa Is Still Angry"


Here's what amuses me about the picture:

1. Is Rosa in...could that be...I think Rosa Parks is wearing blackface.
2. What's with the raccoon eyes?
3. Well, if she's not wearing blackface, then she's clearly sporting a tiki mask of some sort.
4. She appears to be doing an acrobatic tribal dance.
5. So so very angry.

It's like Daisy somehow took almost all the black stereotype images and crafted her own racist SUPER picture. If she had stuck a piece of fried chicken in one of Rosa's hands and a hunk of watermelon in the other, Daisy probably would have secured an expulsion from her nice San Francisco school.

Rosa, you have my deepest apologies.