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  • Barack Obama called himself a skinny kid with a funny name.

  • It was this way of noting that his family was different from that of most well known politicians in the United States.

  • Obama's father was black and from Kenya, his mother was a white American constitution.

  • Help you, God help me.

  • When he took office, Barack Obama was the country's first African American president.

  • I believe in the American history has not yet shown what the effect of his presidency will be.

  • But Obama wrote and spoke often about his experience as a person of mixed race.

  • He said he believed people could overcome their divisions on that place.

Barack Obama called himself a skinny kid with a funny name.

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