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Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961. His mother, Ann Dunham, was eight years younger than his father, Barack Obama Sr. Barack Obama Sr. was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats in Africa and, eventually, earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and go to college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama Sr. met fellow student Ann Dunham, and they married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later. As a child, Obama did not have much of a relationship with his father. Obama Sr. went to Massachusetts to attend Harvard. Obama’s parents had also divorced when he was only two, in 1964. A year later, his mother remarried to a man named Lolo Soetoro, …show more content…

He was one of three black students. While there, he excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979. He also became aware of racism noticed there were no black men in the Sears Catalog. He dealt with self-doubt and had issues with his father. He had only seen his father once since his parents had divorced nearly sixteen years before. His father had also suffered tragedies. He had lost both of his legs in a car crash in 1981 and lost his job as a result. He died a year later in another car crash when Obama Jr. was only 21 years old. He said, “At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me.” Being close to my father, I find that very sad and unnecessary. It wouldn't have taken much for Obama Sr. to give his son a phone call every once in awhile and visit him. Obama should not have just passed his son off to Obama Jr’s grandparents since as his father, it is his responsibility to try to make his son’s life better than his …show more content…

He also took a trip to Kenya to visit the graves of his father and grandfather. He returned to America and entered the school of Harvard in 1988. He also joined a law firm in Chicago as a summer associate and met his future wife, Michelle Robinson, who was then a lawyer who was appointed as Obama’s advisor, and they began dating that year. Obama had a lot of accomplishments at Harvard. In 1990, he became their first black of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law in 1991. After college, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer with the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught law part-time at the University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004. He also helped organize voter registration during the 1992 presidential campaign. Later that year, Obama and Michelle were married. They welcomed two daughters in 1998 and

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