Stay Connected
Atlanta Black Star/Politics/National
NationalNews

Obama Meets Little Girl Who Cried Over His Last Days In Office

Posted byBy Kiersten Willis | Published on: CommentsComments (0)
The White House/Facebook

The White House/Facebook

The little girl who was upset that President Barack Obama is leaving the Oval Office at the end of his term finally got to meet him.

A video posted on the White House’s Facebook and Instagram pages shows the first grader meeting Obama at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll Sunday. Kameria Crayton, whose family lives in Alabama, according to her grandmother’s Facebook page, happily spoke with the president and took a photo with him and first lady Michelle Obama, along with Crayton’s family.

During the meeting, Obama initially believes the young girl is in second grade. Kameria corrects him, and when the president finds out she is in first grade he tells her, “You’ve got to be a reader now.”

In February, Crayton’s grandmother, Caprina D. Harris, recorded a Facebook video of Kameria crying over the president leaving the White House. The young girl is seen wailing, saying she’s “not ready” for him to go. Harris says on the page that the young girl and Obama share the same birthday – Aug. 4 – and adds that he has been the president for Crayton’s whole life. The video has 3.2 million views to date.

Obama initially responded to Crayton’s sadness with a letter, urging her grandmother to let the young girl know she should “dry her tears because I’m not going anywhere.”

His full response:

“Caprina, tell her to dry her tears, because I’m not going anywhere. Once I leave the White House, I’ll still be a citizen just like her. And when she grows up, she can get involved right alongside me. In the meantime, I’ll keep an eye out for her letter, and we’ll always get to celebrate our birthdays together!”

Watch Kameria’s meeting with President Obama below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDjyO-SwimO/?hl=en

Democracy needs journalism it can trust.

This election season, the stakes are higher than usual — and so is the pressure on newsrooms to soften their coverage, stay quiet, or just disappear. Independent reporting, the kind that answers to readers instead of advertisers or political pressure, matters more in a moment like this, not less.

For over 14 years, Atlanta Black Star has stayed independent and reader-funded. We have no corporate owner and no shareholders telling us what to cover or how to cover it. That independence is also our biggest vulnerability: nothing protects it except readers choosing to fund it directly.

Newspaper ad revenue has fallen more than 80% since 2005, and local newsrooms are closing at a rate of roughly two a week nationwide. When outlets go under in a moment like this, it's rarely the independent, reader-funded ones that get to stick around.

We know a request for support isn't why you came here. But without readers choosing to fund this work directly, the depth of reporting we can do at home and abroad shrinks along with everyone else's. If you're not in a position to give, that doesn't change how much we value you as a reader.

If you are able to, a recurring contribution does more for us than a single one-time gift, because it lets us plan the next investigation instead of just the next invoice. It takes about 30 seconds, no long form, no account. Thank you for continuing to support independent journalism and freedom of the press.

Give once Give monthly Support another way

Related Stories

Back to top