Barack Obama Examined Through an Adlerian Framework Superiority Striving

Though, knowing some of Obama’s background, it seems as if he was trying to get a point across. The point I have mention before, our differences should not separate us but unite us. Obama speech is inspiring, because he mentions how we all come from different backgrounds and we have our racist view points, but these points are simply from the past in which hardly anyone today has lived in. If we could overlook all the bad from the past and the negativity from being from different communities, we could have a better and stronger nation. Obama also uses his own background as a way to show how we can overcome different ethic backgrounds. It may be hard in some ways but as he states in his speech, “These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.” We are all apart of America, a country that we love, and we are surrounded by the people we love. Yes, we do come from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds, and some may be a mix of many. This is the inspiring part from his speech. Even though he gets many view points from his family and is from a mix of ethnic backgrounds, all that matters is that his family is apart of him and he loves them for who they are not the ethnicity.

Barack Hussein Obama Jr, the first African American President of the United States, was born on August the 4th 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama’s birth is considered as an important turning point for African American’s in history, he was the first African American to serve as a United States president. Barack Obama is currently the 44th president of the United States. He was raised in a middle class family with education being the core of their lives and had very noble values. Obama was a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989 in Chicago’s law firm of Sidley Austin as a summer associate and not too long after that they began to date. Obama was a civil rights attorney, community organizer in Chicago where he helped rebuild communities that was devastated by the closure of the local street plants and a teacher at University of Chicago Law School before pursuing a political career. The time Obama spent helping rebuild the communities he that this time of his life “the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School” (1). For Obama, he explains that from that experience is what contributed to finding his identity and forming the path that he has taken whilst in the white house. Barack Obama won the election in November 4th 2008 and then took office on January the 20th 2009, these two dates were significant days for America.

President Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu Hawaii, August 4, 1961. Obama lived with his mother and father for a short period of time until his father left when he was around the age of two.Obama didn 't really have a relationship with his father . When Obama was little growing up without his father was a struggle for him.When Obama was 10 he moved back to Hawaii to live with his Grandparents,While living with his grandparents, He enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy. Obama excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979.After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. After working in the business sector for two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked on the impoverished South Side as a community organizer for low-income residents in the Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens communities.

Obama begins his speech with his own and America’s racial history to highlight the importance of unity in anticipation of his election. He

Both of his parents, actually met in the University of Hawaii, His father being Barack Obama Sr, who was actually a black foreign student born in Kenya, and his Mother Ann Dunham, was a white american from Kansas. After the birth of Barack Obama, two years later both parents decided to get in a Divorce, and the father left to go continue his studies at Harvard University, after he was done, 19 years later he died in a car accident taken placed back at his home country in Kenya. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. After a couple of years in Indonesia, her mother grew a concern with the education of her son, then latter sending him back to Hawaii to continue his studies, he went back to then live his his grandparents, in which he will be raised by in his teen years. He later continued to attend Hawaii’s prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade through graduation from high school. Making him really smart, all due to the hard work the school had to offer in terms of education. His mother later had seemed to have problems with her husband, and decided to get in a divorce, and continued to then travel back into hawaii. At school education wasn’t the only thing that he excelled in, he also was a huge player in his High School Varsity BasketBall Team. But everyone also commits in mistakes, also while growing up he did many kinds of drugs, now he wasn’t necessarily addicted but he tend to do them in multiple occasions. With no father or other family members to serve as role models including the fact that his relationship with his white grandfather was difficult, he wanted to raise himself to be an African American in the United States of America. After the end of his High School career he then continued to remain in his studies and take them elsewhere, he went to the Occidental College in Los Angeles

In the year of 1964 obamas paraents broke up and soonely after his father moved back to Kenya.

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. Was brought up to raise goats in Africa and, earned a scholarship that let him leave Kenya and live out his dream of going to school in Hawaii. While he was a student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama Sr. met the women that would become Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, and they got married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born a few short months after. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born on an Army base in Kansas,during World War II. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the Army. Her mother, Madelyn, began to work on an assembly line that manufactured

He first characterized his family in detail and thoroughly described their racial make up. His father is a black man from Kenya; and his mother is a white woman from Kansa. He was raised by a black grandfather who served in World War II, and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line. President Obama has also seen both ends of the spectrum as he was raised in one of the world’s poorest nations; but later went on to attend some of America’s most prestigious schools. He talked about his wife and how she is a black American woman with the blood of slaves as well as slave owners. This information about his life was a vital piece to include in his speech because it connected him with other African American’s. It gave credibility to his speech and made his message more valid. It showed America that him and his family have overcome many difficulties in life, similar to what many American’s are trying to, commonly referred to as “the American dream.” His own “American story” was very beneficial to include because it brought forth a great deal of emotion from voters, especially African American voters. By incorporating details that raised emotions, he was able to connect

Obama addressed to a crowd of mixed gender, race, and understanding of their own feelings towards our country. He spoke of the American Identity and story and how it defines the people who live in America. He said, “Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That’s our spirit.

Obama for sure tries to locate truth in his personal experiences. Obama discusses the issue of race in America in a reasonable and logical manner, yet he also seems sincere, full of character, and is educated on the topic. Racism still exists, but it is most often in the subtleness and comfort of familiar spaces and or homes. Obama’s willingness to have an honest conversation on the subject of racism. Obama hoped to change America’s anger for racial issues and move forward, from the past. I think him wanting to share experiences of his own and others, shows us he's really wanting a change for

From the beginning of time , race has seem to be a topic of discussion. There has always been reoccurrences in history about race problems and skin tone issues. Many thought the Civil Rights era would bring a end to race issues in America but that was just a pseudo. By reading , Dreams from my Father , one can get the sense of the struggle for identity and finding a place of belonging. The United States can not escape the historical legacy that it has built over the years when dealing with race. Obama’s famous quote in the book proclaims , “My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn’t, couldn’t, end there (Obama 111). This famous quote signifies Obama need to know more about him; he is proclaiming that although race and ethnicity is just a slight image of who you are , there are many externalities that influence ones identity and how they are formed as a person. Race is something that might always be apart of your identity , but just knowing your race isn’t critically thinking deep enough . One must search deep into their roots in order to understand their true indeitiy and where they belong in this tangled world. During this book, Obama searched sin Kenya for faith, hope , and inspiration through his African ancestry.

He then stated that the “Constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; the Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfect over time” (Obama). Although the Constitution reads equal citizenship and justice embedded directly in its text, Obama stated that the Americans of the next generations are the ones responsible for abiding by those laws. In result, would “narrow the gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time” (Obama). President Obama then transitioned on to his personal life calling it his “own American story.” He used his personal life to make the audience aware that he too has be exposed to various ways of life. He reached out to all walked of life, rich, poor, young, and old, by stating that he’s “gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations”(Obama). Obama made it known that he understands the racial issues within America and it is his task to continue to strive for a “more free, more caring, and more prosperous America”

The truly difficult work of racial governmental issues is finished by Steele, who, clarifying that he, as well, is the offspring of an interracial couple, depicts, as far as his own understanding, the dark individual's technique for being loved by whites (abstaining from appearing to be furious). Be that as it may, in declaring that Obama owes his ascent to being "aided" by whites, he repeats another anti-agents generalization, that of the reliant dark individual who lives grayish individuals' abundance and blame. D'Souza suggests that Obama was chosen as an analgesic to that blame and came to office as a void image and an unexamined amount, whose inclinations and most profound standards—that’s covered outrage—have been kept under tight restraints by the possibility of reelection. With respect to the genuine condition of race relations in America—the motion picture offers not a word about it; the real legislative issues of

After winning the 44th presidential election for the Democrats, and becoming the first African-American to hold this office, Barack Obama gives his winning speech known as the Presidential Election-Night Speech. He is delivering his speech in Chicago, 2008, predominantly people of the minority were present. Additionally, these are people who seek a change in the way society treats those who are perceived and treated differently solely because of their socioeconomic status, mobile, health or mental state, sexual orientation, gender, and/or ethnicity. Obama is aware that this is an expectant, optimistic, but also questioning audience, as he is generally speaking of the whole United States; he is talking to his supporters as well as those who oppose or feel indifferent towards him. Therefore, Obama knowingly and cunningly uses rhetorical devices such as pathos, anecdotes, humor, and repetition in order to instill confidence and reassurance, and to communicate his standpoint on important issues.

Getting to this place was a journey for Obama just as it is for all others, in my opinion. My perception of the encounter, for Barack, was neither horribly negative, nor very positive. He was simply lost, it seemed. As a young child attending a prestigious school in Hawaii, Barack Obama was cared for by his white American mother and grandparents, but was a brown child, having also a black Kenyan father. Barack was an outcast for everyone, being secluded from the whites because of his look, and having a different outlook than other black students at his school who held the view that they were oppressed by white people. It was far from sensible that the people who loved, cared for, and supported him the most could oppress Barack.