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These hairs

2020-11-25T21:33:46.663Z


The image of the boy putting his hand in the short hair of then President Obama led me to a hairdresser consideration of politics


The boy Jacob Philadelphia wanted to know if Obama's hair was like his.Pete Souza / CASA BLANCA

It is a memorable photo that fell into oblivion, perhaps because of its anecdotal appearance.

It illustrated, with others taken today, Javier Moreno's interview with Barack Obama, and no one who read the newspaper last Thursday 19 will have stopped noticing that image: the black boy, dressed for a Sunday, putting his hand on the hair short of the then president, who bends down: curly afro hair, theirs.

The recent history of North America is condensed into two hairs, the genuine and the same as the child found in Obama, and the doubtful blond unruly Trump.

That led me to a serious consideration ...

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