What is and Obstalce Obama had to overcome?

Answer 1

Barack Obama faced a number of obstacles as a child. He was biracial at a time when inter-racial marriage was still not very common. He was born in Hawaii to a father who was from Kenya and a mother who was from Kansas. His father showed very little interest in him, and by the time he was two, his father was gone, leaving his mom, a college student, to raise him. Fortunately, his grandparents cared a lot about him, but first, he moved with his mom (who had re-married) to Indonesia, where he was a biracial American child in a moderate Muslim country where everyone spoke a different language.

He got along with everyone and attended English-speaking schools, but after four years, he wanted to be back in the USA, and he returned to Hawaii live with his grandparents. As he got older, he felt he was very different from all the other kids, and he briefly experimented with drugs, before deciding to focus on getting into college. These were just some of the obstacles he faced before he finally found a direction for his life: he decided to become a serious student and do something that would help others, which is why he chose to study politics and law at Columbia University and then at Harvard Law School.

Answer 2

Barack Obama faced a number of obstacles. He was born in Hawaii to a young couple who were both in college. His dad left when Barack was only two, and his mom struggled to raise him, with the help of his maternal grandparents. He overcame being biracial (his mom was white, his dad was black, and biracial marriages were still not very common); living in Indonesia for nearly five years (his mom remarried, and the family moved there; it was a country where young Barack knew nobody and didn't speak the language, but he managed to adapt); having a funny-sounding name (although he was American, few kids had a name like Barack Hussein Obama-- the one thing his biological father left him); wanting to go to college although his family was by no means wealthy; and persuading the voters, first in Chicago, and then nationally, that although he was relatively unknown, he would get things done for them as their senator (and later, as their president).

Answer 3

One obtacle Obama had to overcome , was that he was a black man and the second thing was that people thought he was a muslim.