Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States. He was the first African American to serve as President. His story is not different from the average person. He was raised in a middle-class family where he was taught that hard work and education were the keys to getting ahead, and the “conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.”
President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. His father was born in Kenya and his mother was from Kansas. President Obama was raised in Hawaii with help from his grandparents. “His grandfather, that he called “Gramps” served in General Patton's army, and his grandmother who he called “Toots” who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management …show more content…
During his campaign, he would often speak about the importance of unity, inclusion and how working together could bring about social change.
When President and Mrs. Obama and their daughter walked onto the stage in Chicago’s Grant Park the world was forever changed. That day was a moment that many people of color thought was impossible. President Obama’s victory was overwhelming (“two to one in the Electoral College) and more than seven million votes over his Republican challenger.”
History was made that day. The election of a black man as President was never supposed to happen. This was a symbolic and progressive step for civil rights. For many this win was important given the election numbers but it also said to the world, to Black Americans and all those who had been oppressed that there was hope. President Obama himself was the change, the motivation and inspiration that the world was a better, could be a different place than what it had been so many years before. Individual and global belief systems were changed. There was a human, a man of compassion who thought about the many and not just the few. A man who wanted to build bridges where they were torn down or had never
President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. His father was born in Kenya and his mother was from Kansas. President Obama was raised in Hawaii with help from his grandparents. “His grandfather, that he called “Gramps” served in General Patton's army, and his grandmother who he called “Toots” who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management …show more content…
During his campaign, he would often speak about the importance of unity, inclusion and how working together could bring about social change.
When President and Mrs. Obama and their daughter walked onto the stage in Chicago’s Grant Park the world was forever changed. That day was a moment that many people of color thought was impossible. President Obama’s victory was overwhelming (“two to one in the Electoral College) and more than seven million votes over his Republican challenger.”
History was made that day. The election of a black man as President was never supposed to happen. This was a symbolic and progressive step for civil rights. For many this win was important given the election numbers but it also said to the world, to Black Americans and all those who had been oppressed that there was hope. President Obama himself was the change, the motivation and inspiration that the world was a better, could be a different place than what it had been so many years before. Individual and global belief systems were changed. There was a human, a man of compassion who thought about the many and not just the few. A man who wanted to build bridges where they were torn down or had never