March 26, 2020 | Reading Time: 2 minutes
My child’s view of the president
I don’t write about my daughter because that’s best tack to take for a public forum like the Editorial Board. I do want to share something she did recently, though. ERS is 8. She’s sensitive and caring and precocious. After I asked her to draw a picture of how she feels about the president, she…
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I don’t write about my daughter because that’s best tack to take for a public forum like the Editorial Board. I do want to share something she did recently, though.
ERS is 8. She’s sensitive and caring and precocious. After I asked her to draw a picture of how she feels about the president, she said (totally unprompted, I swear) that she’d draw Donald Trump with girls and black children behind him in handcuffs. Why?
Because he’s “so sexist and racist.”
To ERS, and I think to many of her classmates, the president is the man who takes children from their parents, the most terrifying thing they can imagine happening.
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ERS isn’t old enough to help with the Editorial Board. (Except, of course, as its chief illustrator!) She wants to do more, and I can’t wait, but I have to make sure this newsletter about politics in plain English is still around when she’s, say, 11.
So … here I am, asking. Please help make that happen by becoming a paying subscribing or by hitting the tip jar. In any case, though, I want to thank each and every one of you for reading, sharing and supporting the Editorial Board!
—John Stoehr
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John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.
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