In 1963, the Lincoln Memorial witnessed a historic speech in which Martin[gf]2022[gf]Luther[gf]2022[gf]2022[gf]King conveyed the call for black civil rights to the world with "I Have a Dream."
In 2008, in the same place, the world's eyes were focused on Obama, who announced to the world the birth of the first black person in the United States with his speech "We Will Be Sure".
This is not only a victory for black civil rights, but also an inspiration to the countless Black Americans whose dreams have now become reality. However, the challenges facing Obama as the first black man** cannot be ignored.
His status is both an honor and a pressure. In this pluralistic society, how he uses his identity to promote the progress of society is a question that we have always been concerned about.
In 1988, a young man from the United States came to the village of Koglo in Nairobi, Kenya, and this small village with no traffic and economic poverty became his new starting point.
People were curious about this unfamiliar face, but soon someone came forward to save him. Thrilled to learn that he had arrived, a local family surnamed Obama came out to greet this special guest.
After seeing the young man, his family members came forward to hug him cordially. Only then did the villagers learn that the strange guest was the child born to a local white man married by the elder Obama when he was studying in the United States, named Barack[gf]2022[gf]Hussein[gf]2022[gf]Obama.
He made a special trip to visit his relatives this time. After learning what had happened, the villagers gave him a warm welcome, shook hands with him and hugged him warmly. If the villagers had known in advance that they were shaking hands and hugging the first black man in the United States, they would have asked someone to take a photo.
Throughout Obama's life, the father has been an absent character. No one knows how eager he is to know his father's story, so this time he came back to visit his family to make up for it.
Obama, born in 1961, is a mixed-race child to a white American mother and a black Kenyan student. In 1960, his mother, Dunham, met his father, Obama Sr., at the University of Hawaii.
Dunham was only 18 years old at the time, innocent and very cute. The elder Obama was six years older than Dunham, and with his ingenuity and hard work, he won a full scholarship to the University of Hawaii.
The charm of the elder Obama lies not only in his intelligence, but also in his humor, which always makes people laugh out loud with his words and demeanor.
He managed to win Dunham's heart. They complement each other's personalities, have endless topics to talk about every day, and quickly establish a romantic relationship. However, a fortuitous discovery caused a rift in their feelings.
Dunham accidentally discovers that her boyfriend has married and had children in his hometown. It was like a bolt from the blue for Dunham, and a heated argument was inevitable. Obama Sr. explained that his marriage was the order of his parents, it was difficult to disobey, and he had no feelings for his wife.
He concluded by emphasizing that only Dunham was his true true love.
In many underdeveloped regions, parents often make decisions about their children's marriages. Dunham understands this and sympathizes with her boyfriend's inability to be autonomous due to an arranged marriage. They reconciled as before, and their relationship grew stronger and deeper.
As their relationship heats up, they become skin-to-skin, and Dunham soon discovers that she is pregnant. When Dunham's parents learned of this, they were shocked and adamantly opposed to their daughter giving birth.
They believe that Dunham and Obama Sr. are both students, and if they do have children, it may have an impact on their studies, and who will take care of the children is also a big problem.
Dunham is determined to give birth to a child, even though it means that she will endure unimaginable difficulties. After that, she married Obama Sr. In 1961, Obama, the crystallization of their love, came to life.
Although the concepts of love and marriage are different, marriage requires more responsibility and dedication. Obviously, their marriage was not fully prepared, life was full of hardships and challenges, and conflicts and quarrels escalated.
They were tormented by endless quarrels and exhaustion, and in 1963, they chose to divorce. After the divorce, Dunham went back to school, and the elder Obama was admitted to Harvard University for further study, while the young Obama was taken care of by Dunham's parents.
In the '60s, when there was racism, black people in the United States were oppressed and exploited, and they lived a difficult life and faced many troubles.
Obama's black ancestry and childhood discrimination left a deep scar on his young mind. At a critical stage of growing up, despite his mother's best efforts to protect him, his father's absence became his biggest childhood regret.
Whenever he was bullied, Obama looked forward to his father being there for him and for him. However, this expectation has been disappointed again and again in the face of reality, and from childhood to adulthood, he has only seen his father a handful of times.
These realities have left Obama deeply dissatisfied with his father, and this negativity has been haunting him and has left him in deep trouble.
Obama was led astray by inner anguish and became a delinquent teenager. But fortunately, he eventually realizes his mistake and realizes his mistake with the right guidance of his loved ones.
In 1988, he was admitted to Harvard University, where he majored in law. This is also his father's alma mater, which makes him think of his father from time to time, and he loves and hates him. In order to learn about his father's past and at the same time to reconcile with himself, he decided to return to his father's hometown of Koglo in Kenya to visit his family.
During our trip to Kenya, friends and family in the village of Koglo told us the story of Obama Sr. These memories allowed Obama to truly get to know and know his father.
Born in 1936 in the village of Coglo, Obama Sr. showed a bright talent and eloquence from an early age. Because of his likable personality, he successfully joined the British colonial army as a teenager.
In the military, the elder Obama broadened his horizons and developed a deep curiosity and yearning for the Western world. In order to realize his dream, he studied without sleep and food, and eventually succeeded in winning a full scholarship to the University of Hawaii, and met Dunham and married and had children.
After returning to the United States, he chose to return to his homeland and embarked on a path into politics, becoming a well-known economist in Kenya.
The elder Obama was talented, but he never met a real appreciator, and his career was uneventful, and he finally withdrew due to political disagreement with Kenya's Kenyatta.
After that, he fell into a deep depression for a long time. In 1982, he was killed in a heart-wrenching car accident in Nairobi, ending his life of disappointment.
Obama learned of his father's death days after he died, so he was unable to stay with him in his final moments. Every time he thought of this, Obama felt deeply remorseful, and his family and friends also saw his heavy heart, so they immediately changed the subject and invited him to try the local specialties, hoping to bring him some comfort.
Sarah's grandmother is Obama's non-blood grandmother, and although the two are not related by blood, Sarah's grandmother has always been very concerned about the American grandson, always wondering when Obama will come home to see.
Now that her wish has come true, she is naturally very happy. To welcome her grandson, she cooked her own chicken stew, her own specialty. The whole family sits around the same table and enjoys together.
For the next two weeks, Obama lived and ate with Sarah's grandmother, living a life of sunrise and sunset. Before Obama arrived, Sarah's biggest problem, who had lived alone for many years, was manual work such as carrying rice and water.
She is old and has inconvenient legs, and it is very hard to do these things.
When Obama learned the news, his heart was filled with pity, and he decided to take on all the heavy lifting on his own initiative. Every morning, the villagers could see him hurrying home with two heavy buckets.
Considering that his stay was not long, Obama also decided to help ease the burden on his grandmother. Every day, he would carry some of his family's rice to the factory in the town and carry the milled rice home.
The process was very difficult for Obama, and he was exhausted by the daily thunderstorms. However, even though Obama was tired enough, his grandmother still insisted on carrying rice with him to ease his burden.
In this process, Obama walked in the front, and Sara did her best to support Mi in the back, and the cooperation between grandparents and grandchildren showed deep love and affection, which was deeply moving.
Sara is full of praise for her hard-working grandson, and praises him whenever she meets people. Malik is Obama's older half-brother, and although he and his younger brother Obama have never met, their genes make them not strangers and they quickly become acquainted.
Malik is a good winemaker, and Obama is a wine tastinger, and the two have surprisingly similar amounts of wine and interests. They often drank and chatted under the big trees at the head of the village, Malik told family stories, Obama told about life in the United States, and the brothers talked about everything.
Mr. Obama had a sense of humor like his father's, and he had a lot of fun in his conversations, which Malik admired. In his conversations with him, Malik sensed that this erudite and eloquent brother would certainly make great achievements in the future.
He even shared his thoughts with friends and family, but they didn't take it to heart at the time. However, as the saying goes, "a word becomes a prophecy", and this is all what happened later.
Time flew by, and by the time Obama left for home, they had only been together for two weeks, but Obama had become so close to his family that he felt deeply inseparable.
At the moment of separation, Sarah's grandmother couldn't help but shed tears of grief that made her feel so lost. Seeing his grandmother's emotions, Obama immediately stepped forward to comfort her and said firmly: "One day, I will definitely come back to pick you up for a trip to the United States, you have to take care of your health and wait for my return." ”
Hearing this, Sara immediately burst into tears and smiled, revealing a big smile. Malik and the other siblings were also very reluctant, and kept expressing their desire to come back to Obama often.
With tears in his eyes, Obama waved goodbye to his friends and family before taking a bus to the airport. This trip to Kenya left a deep impression on him, and he had the idea of writing in his mind.
After returning to the United States, Obama focused on his studies and became a high-profile student on campus. During his studies, Obama put his writing plan into practice, and a book containing Obama's life experiences and his trip to Kenya, "Obama's Memoirs[gf]2022[gf]My Father's Dream," took shape.
In 1991, Obama graduated from college with honors. He has since worked as a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. While teaching, Obama continued his writing program, which was eventually completed and published in 1995.
This made him famous, and coupled with his position at prestigious schools, he was often invited to various political events. Obama is eloquent and born to be a politician.
In 1996, he stood out from a crowd of contenders and was elected to the Illinois Assembly. After successfully joining the parliament, Obama has a clearer plan for his future political career, which is to become the United States, and he has been working hard to achieve this.
After becoming the first to become a leader, Obama actively participated in various parliamentary affairs and accumulated rich political experience. In 2004, he decided to enter the parliamentary elections and was eventually elected to the U.S. Senate, laying a solid foundation for his political career.
In the process, Obama realized that incidents were frequent, and the public was increasingly concerned about gun control. As a law major, he keenly grasped this social hotspot, and used his professional knowledge and influence to promote the drafting of a bill to control the routine**, contributing to the security of American society.
Obama's move won the hearts of the people, and he is increasingly admired by the people. He firmly grasped the pulse of the times and put forward bills on major issues such as climate change and nuclear terrorism.
As a result, Obama became one of the most popular senators, with the base popularity of the campaign. In 2008, with the end of the term of former George W. Bush, various parties began to look for new candidates.
In the fierce competition, to:"Change"Obama, the theme of the Democrat, won a large number of supporters, and finally succeeded in getting the nomination of the ** candidate. As the only black man in the campaign, Obama won the support and recognition of blacks across the country as soon as he appeared.
1.Obama's African-American identity has given him enormous influence, earning him a large number of votes, but it has also brought him many questions. In particular, rumors that he was born in Kenya are rampant, casting doubt on his candidacy.
Some have used his Kenyan mixed-race status to make a fuss about whether he qualifies as a U.S. citizen. In order to quell these rumors, Obama had to make public information such as his birth certificate as a way to prove his identity.
2.Obama's black identity is both his strength and his trouble. Although he has won the support of a large number of voters, it has also raised a series of questions.
Rumors about his birth in Kenya, in particular, have made his candidacy highly controversial. Some have used his Kenyan mixed-race status to make a fuss about whether he qualifies as a U.S. citizen.
In order to prove his innocence, Obama had to release information such as his birth certificate and quell the rumors. 3.Obama's black identity is one of his highlights, but it also causes him a lot of trouble.
Among them, rumors that he was born in Kenya are the most serious, which makes his candidacy extremely questionable. Some have used his Kenyan mixed-race status to make a big fuss about his eligibility to run as a U.S. citizen.
In order to dispel the rumors, Obama had to make public information such as his birth certificate as a way to prove his identity.