It’s Officially Summer: Washington Post Displays Front Page Photo of Black Children Playing Around Open Fire Hydrant
After several false starts punctuated by warm weekdays followed by mild and rainy weekends, SNS can now confirm that summer officially began as of this morning. That’s because today The Washington Post’s front page featured a large photo of black children playing around an open fire hydrant.
The spike in temperatures yesterday in the District of Colombia prompted the fire department to locate some poor black children who were not in school and douse them in a soothing rainstorm of fire hydrant water. The children—blissfully unaware of the concepts of manipulation and stereotype—were happy to dance and sing and jump through the misty shower while dozens of freelance photographers zeroed in on the perfect shot which would capture heat and water, joy and poverty.
“Every year only one photographer earns the honor of getting his shot of the black kids on the front page,” a triumphant Michael Horst recounts. “When the editor called me into his office, I knew mine had been chosen. I’ve head it can be a real career booster.”
Now that the hydrant has been closed up, DC’s poor black children are looking forward to an exciting summer of watching white people from the Virginia and Maryland suburbs walk from the Metro past their homes to RFK Stadium where they will watch the Washington Nationals baseball team play its home games.
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