Friday, October 17, 2008

Two degrees of separation

Or is it one degree? I’m not sure how that works.

Anyway, here’s a picture of Barack Obama with my cousin, Prof. Phoebe Farris:

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's my mama!

SJ said...

They look like siblings don't they? Their smiles are similar too.

Anonymous said...

You have an attractive, accomplished family. That's the part of the black community I like to see highlighted!

Undercover Black Man said...

^ Thank you, Lynn. You are very sweet to say that.

It's the American story. Our ancestors paid the hard dues. And thankfully they gave to us the values of education, law-abidingness and work.

Anonymous said...

Oh my, your cousin rocks and is now added to my list of academic role models! That's the kind of diverse career I want when I get done with this damn PhD program.