From the official White House Flickr site, via teacherken at DailyKos, who draws our attention to the caption:
President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President’s haircut felt like his own. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Changing times, folks. Things may not be perfect, but they’re looking up.
(Thanks to Jim Toevs for alerting me to this photo and diary.)
A friend posted a link to that picture on FB last week. I absolutely love it. I read another story of a little girl who was always teased for being mixed-race but now when anyone teases her she says, “Well, so is the President.” And the fact that Obama was so clearly willing and probably happy to let the boy touch his hair is just priceless.