This conversation happened last Friday but she’s been bugging me for a resolution ever since. I picked her up from school and she was raring to talk to me about what they’d learned. She didn’t even make it all the way into the car before she was hollering, “Mama!! We need to text Bernie. We need to text him right now.”

Me: “Why do we need to text him? I don’t even have his phone number?”

C: “Yes you do, I see the texts all the time. I need to tell him about what I learned at school today.”

Me: “Those are texts from his campaign, not directly from him, but tell me about what you learned.”

C: “I learned about Lincoln, you know Lincoln?”

Me: “Yes, I know Lincoln.”

C: “Do you have his phone number?”

Me: “No, Lincoln’s dead, baby. I don’t have his phone number. Just tell me what you learned.”

C: “I learned about this speech. The emaci…emanicipi…EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. That’s it. I learned about Lincoln’s speech, the Emancipation Proclamation! And the whole time I was thinking, ‘Bernie needs to read this.’”

Me: “Well I’m pretty sure he’s already read it, baby.”

C: “No, no. You don’t understand. This. THIS is how we get those kids out of those cages!! This is how we get them home!! We don’t ask for it, we PROCLAIM it. If Lincoln can free all the slaves, we can free all the kids. Text Bernie right now and tell him that. I told every single person in my class already. I had to argue with some of them because they liked Trump but most of them are on my side now. I’ll tell 5th grade next. You tell Bernie!”

Me: “That’s a very good point, but again I don’t have Bernie’s phone number.”

C: “Well then EMAIL him!”

So there you have it Mr. President, [u/bernie-sanders](https://www.reddit.com/u/bernie-sanders/). You’ve got 4th graders listening and watching all the way down in the Deep South and they want you to know that they’ve got a plan!

Link to the original: [https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/fk88ru/my\_9\_year\_old\_wants\_me\_to\_text\_bernie\_shes\_got\_a/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/fk88ru/my_9_year_old_wants_me_to_text_bernie_shes_got_a/)