A man once said,”Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek” (“17 Of President Obama's Most Inspirational Quotes”). This man is Barack Hussein Obama, who was the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. Obama has risen to become the most powerful man in the United States nation, and continues to transform the way society thinks across all races. The forty-fourth president would not have became who he is today if it was not for being born into an interracial family and raised by a single mother in Honolulu, Hawaii (“Barack Obama Biography”). Obama described Hawaii, his home state, as “the one true melting pot, an experiment
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His mother was Stanley Ann Dunham. Dunham’s first name is Stanley, because her father wanted a boy so bad that he already signed off to have her name be Stanley before he knew the sex of the baby(Davis 12). Obama’s father was Barack Obama Sr., and he was from Kenya (Davis 13). Obama’s father came to the United States, on a scholarship for college. Obama Sr. met Dunham while they were at college, and the two fell in love and produced the baby Obama society knows today (Davis 17). Meanwhile, in Kenya Obama Sr. had another family and Obama’s grandmother did not want his father to bring Dunham into their family, because she was white (Davis 14). Obama Sr. “left paradise” (“The Story Behind His Success”), in Hawaii, and went back to college at Harvard University, to finish his scholarship. Dunham was left with baby Obama, with her mother and father (Davis page 18). The couple finally divorces in 1964 (Davis 17). Obama went to schools at Punahou Academy, and he excelled greatly in basketball and in academics. Despite being “one of three black students at the school” he still graduated with honors in 1979 (“Barack Obama Biography”). Obama proceeded to go to three different colleges: Occidental college in Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, and Harvard University (“Barack Obama
His mother was Stanley Ann Dunham. Dunham’s first name is Stanley, because her father wanted a boy so bad that he already signed off to have her name be Stanley before he knew the sex of the baby(Davis 12). Obama’s father was Barack Obama Sr., and he was from Kenya (Davis 13). Obama’s father came to the United States, on a scholarship for college. Obama Sr. met Dunham while they were at college, and the two fell in love and produced the baby Obama society knows today (Davis 17). Meanwhile, in Kenya Obama Sr. had another family and Obama’s grandmother did not want his father to bring Dunham into their family, because she was white (Davis 14). Obama Sr. “left paradise” (“The Story Behind His Success”), in Hawaii, and went back to college at Harvard University, to finish his scholarship. Dunham was left with baby Obama, with her mother and father (Davis page 18). The couple finally divorces in 1964 (Davis 17). Obama went to schools at Punahou Academy, and he excelled greatly in basketball and in academics. Despite being “one of three black students at the school” he still graduated with honors in 1979 (“Barack Obama Biography”). Obama proceeded to go to three different colleges: Occidental college in Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, and Harvard University (“Barack Obama