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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

A 7-year old revolutionary

Thanks to poetess Sheri Booker for forwarding me this article.

Don't say anything bad about Columbus.

"A 7-year-old prodigy unleashed a firestorm when she recited a poem she wrote comparing Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin to "pirates" and "vampires" who robbed blacks of their identities and human rights. " Read NY post article.

Wow, I wonder if I am more in shock at the fact that she's been officially banned, or at the fact that she is only 7-years old and writing some serious poems.

Officially banned. No questions asked. She's seven. Wow.

1 Comments:

At 11:03 AM, Blogger slb said...

this part made me wanna home-school my future kids:

Autum's father, Batin Ashante, said he can't believe the fuss over his daughter's poem.

"She's a little girl who does poetry about real things. She doesn't do poetry about cotton candy," Ashante said. "She's a serious little person."

love!

i wanna raise serious little people. lol

 

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