Grace Lee (Biography of Barack Obama)

Did you know that Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th president in the united states?

Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama's father went to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies and then returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born.

Four years later when Obama was ten, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

He was enrolled in the fifth grade (Primary 5) at the esteemed Punahou Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. He was only one of three black students at the school. This is where Obama first became conscious of racism and what it meant to be an African-American.

After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama previously served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.

Although there are some white people who doesn't like him, he never let us down. Do you know why the white people doesn't like him? Long ago, black people were used to be servants so the white people always look down at them, the think they are poor.

Obama may or may not have the ability to do his job well but the black people are proud of him. In this way, his place of the president will still be his until he die.