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The first black president! 44th President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama

The first black president in history.

Since the founding of the United States, blacks have always been exposed to discrimination. He was used as a slave until the Civil War and continued to be persecuted after the Civil War.

300 years after the founding of the United States, the history of the United States has changed significantly.

Barack Hussein Obama until becoming president

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. His father is a black man born in Kenya and his mother is a white man born in Kansas.

Although his father was a Muslim, Obama himself was a Protestant Christian, his parents divorced in 1964, and Obama would live with his mother thereafter.

Eventually his mother became an anthropologist and remarried to an Indonesian, and Obama spent his elementary school days in Indonesia.

After that, in 1971, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, and after graduating from high school, entered Occidental College in California, and two years later he transferred to Columbia University to study political science.

After graduating, he worked for a publishing company in New York, then enrolled in Harvard Draw School, and after graduating he worked as a lawyer in Chicago. He ran for the 2008 presidential election as a member of parliament and became the first black president in history.

The 44th President of the United States

Obama, like the president of the Democratic Party, focused on domestic enhancement.

He has implemented a universal health insurance system called "Obamacare," tolerating same-sex marriage, and has launched a series of advanced policies, including a $ 3 billion budget to improve the lives of indigenous peoples.

In addition, minorities such as Asia, Africa, and Native Americans have been actively hired for key positions, just as Cherokee graduates have been appointed Senior Advisors to the White House, and the US Supreme Judge is Hispanic Sonia Sotomayor. He worked on innovative personnel such as appointing Mayor.

However, on the other hand, foreign policy is also harmonious like the president of the Democratic Party, and it seems that the United States is weak from the domestic market by saying "The United States will stop the police of the world", and the recovery of diplomatic relations with Iran and Cuba is also domestic. Not supported.

On the other hand, although he increased the troops stationed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said in a speech in Prague that "the United States has the moral responsibility to take action as the only nuclear-weapon state using nuclear weapons," as the incumbent president. He won the Nobel Peace Prize during his first tenure.

Personal evaluation of Barack Hussein Obama

He is the president who has enriched domestic politics, actively adopted minorities, and breathed new life into American politics.

However, the opposition from the conventional "strong America" ​​is strong, and it invites the conservative opposition including immigration issues, which causes the tragedy of Donald Trump's inauguration as president.

I think this area represents the difficulty of American politics and is symbolic.