Obama et ses fils

Barack Obama contribue au programme “Becoming a Man” à Chicago et il participe à des discussions avec des jeunes noirs. Les première rencontres ne furent pas médiatisées. Obama se confie comme tous les participants et il considère que ces rencontres lui rapportent beaucoup. Le premier Président noir de l'histoire américaine est un symbole fort pour tous ces jeunes.

 "Back in Room 208 of Hyde Park Academy that winter afternoon, Obama told the group he tries to exercise every day but was feeling the aches of a 51-year-old. Emotionally, he was always thinking about his daughters, and he said he feels intellectually challenged all the time. Spiritually, he said, he prays every night.

 Then Obama was asked to tell his story: How did a black man become president? He talked about his anger as a young man growing up without a father in the picture. When he was a teen in high school, he partied too much, ignored school too much. He confided that he drank and smoked pot."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/chicago-teens-stories-on-becoming-a-man-leave-a-mark-on-the-president/2014/02/09/8808c336-82b8-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html?hpid=z4