On the way to Friendly’s tonight (where the boys remind us ‘Ice Cream Makes The Meal’), we asked Matty and Aidan how their day was and if they learned anything interesting.
“Today we learned about Martin Luther King,” Aidan chirped.
“We learned about him yesterday,” Matty jumped in, attempting the usurp the conversation as he has been apt to do lately. Kimmy quickly reminded Matty that Aidan was talking first, and to let him finish.
“So today we watched a cartoon about Doctor King,” Aidan continued, “And like these three kids went back in time and met Dr. King. And like they talked with him and like, got to know about like equality. And then they brought Dr. King back to the present, but when he was a kid, and like do you know what happened?”
“No, tell us,” I asked.
“Segragation!” Aidan shouted.
“Excuse me?”
“There was still segragation and black people were treated poorly and like one of their friends was like a maid and like black kids and white kids weren’t allowed to go to school together anymore. So like they had to find a way to send Dr. King back in time so he could teach everyone about like being good to each other and he had to die, which was sad.”
“Wow,” I replied, “And what was the moral of the story?”
Before Aidan could reply, Matty jumped in “It means you should never take someone out of the past because you could seriously mess up the future.”
At that moment, I was very grateful for the red light so I could have a moment to ponder the fact that Matty’s main concern was not equality of all people (though he did mention that later) but rather the structural integrity of the space/time continum.
I swear this kid is going to rule the world someday. I try to keep all comics involving Doctor Doom away from him so as to avoid any inspiration.
(Incidentally the cartoon Aidan watched was “Our Friend Martin”)
