The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo; and even a few phrases of Gullah, the Creole dialect of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Very few are wealthy, and some — like Sarah Obama, the stepgrandmother who only recently got electricity and running water in her metal-roofed shack — are quite poor.Aside from a top-quality education, the new president came to politics with none of his predecessor’s advantages: no famou
s last name, no deep-pocketed parents to finance early forays into politics and, in fact, not much of a father at all. So Mr. Obama built his political career from scratch, with best-selling books and long-shot runs for office, leaving his relatives astonished at where he has brought them.It is so mind-boggling that there is a black president in a White House. Some say that The Dreams of Martin Luther King has come true.
Atlast we should be greatful to the People of America for electing such a Multi Cultural and Ethnically Diverse president.
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