In 1988, Obama came to his african hometown, a small village in Kenya that was so unknown in the world that it could not be found on a map.
This is the first time Obama has been here, when he was not "the first black President of the United States," but a fledgling political rookie who aimed for that distant presidency.
However, without roots, he did not have strong support, he was not white, and although he was discriminated against in "high society" in the United States, he was not a spokesman for black people, because he went all the way to the aristocratic school and had no idea what kind of life the black people lived at the bottom.

A rough life
Therefore, at that time, Obama's situation was very embarrassing, white people looked down, black people also disdained, but in order to achieve his ambitions, Obama always had to find a group of support, white group Obama did not have much hope, prejudice is carved in the bones, Obama can not go to the skin bleaching, so he can only try to get close to the black group.
And to truly win the support of black people, Obama decided to go to his father's hometown of Kenya for a root-seeking operation in the first step.
To talk about the origin of Obama and Kenya, of course, we have to talk about his father, who is known as the old Obama, although he has not achieved as high as his son, but the drama of the old Obama's life is really more wonderful than his son.

Although Obama was black, he was also an authentic American born in Hawaii, but his father was different, the elder Obama was born in poor Kenya, when Kenya was not yet independent and was still a British colony.
Britain's policy toward the colonies was quite cruel and bloody, the local peasants were exploited to the point of almost unable to survive, and growing up in such an environment, the elder Obama witnessed many human sufferings from a young age, so he became a staunch anti-colonialist, and for Western countries, whether it was Britain or the United States, the old Obama never had much good feelings.
But in order to further publicize his anti-colonial ideas, the elder Obama still set his sights on the United States on the other side of the ocean, and he decided to receive a higher education in the United States so that he could have the opportunity to realize his political ideals.

Academically, Obama Sr. was quite good, but if you talk about his love life, it would be quite unbearable, and when the elder Obama came to the United States in his early twenties, he quickly met a girl five years younger than him in college, this girl named Ann Dunham, who was the mother of the later Obama.
Obama Sr. claimed to Ann Dunham that he was unmarried, but in fact it was a deception because Obama had already been married once in Kenya and even had two children. In Kenya, it is not very unusual for boys and girls to marry at the age of fourteen or fifteen, but Ann Dunham is not very aware of these things.
In 1961, Obama Sr. married Ann Dunham, who was three months pregnant, and Obama Sr. was emotionally unreliable, playing with the two women between the applause, and he was only a dewy marriage to Ann Dunham.

Two years later, Obama was given the opportunity to study at Harvard, that is, he was leaving Ann's hometown of Hawaii, at which point he could choose to take his wife with him or leave alone to leave her home and wait for him for a few years.
As a result, the elder Obama chose the third way, that is, to divorce his wife directly, continue to be dashing himself, and leave the child in the care of the young Ann Dunham. Two-year-old Obama probably didn't understand what was going on, but anyway, from that moment on, he became a child abandoned by his father.
A few years later, the elder Obama married again, married a woman from Lithuania, and gave birth to several children, and in the life of the elder Obama, his debts can be said to be innumerable.
However, in Kenya, the behavior of the old Obama is simply normal and cannot be more normal, because the old Obama's father has married three wives in his life, and the old Obama himself was born to the second wife, and in such a poor environment, naturally there is no law to restrict marriage.

But the old Obama's affair undoubtedly took a huge toll on all his wives and children.
Especially in the United States at that time, the behavior of the old Obama did not take into account the survival of Ann and Obama, you know, in that era, although black and white people in the United States were calling for equality, in fact, black people were still discriminated against, only about 19% of white women would choose to marry black men, and even in some states, the law explicitly prohibited intermarriage between blacks and whites.
Ann Dunham's willingness to marry Obama Sr. was undoubtedly courageous, but unfortunately, her sincerity was completely wrong. Obama later wrote in his memoirs: "My father was as black as carbon, and my mother was as white as milk." ”
Such a couple is common in today's America, but it was regarded as a monster by people at that time, and Obama, a half-race child born in such a family, is of course more like an outlier, neither white nor black.

If the elder Obama is a relatively family-oriented person, it may be fine, but the old Obama is still a bad reputation of the wanderer, this is even worse, from childhood in school, Obama is the object of discrimination and ridicule of his classmates, people know that he is a child without a father, and his missing father is still a rogue from Kenya.
Obama has very few memories of his father, but he still has a strong attachment to his father, and he remembers that when he was young, in order to escape the discrimination of his classmates, he lied, saying that his father was a prince in Kenya, had a throne to inherit, and he would become a king in the future.
Maybe obama's story was so well made up that many people believed him, and even some people stopped bullying him and began to respect him.
This made the young Obama feel a rare sense of self-esteem. But he was afraid that this lie would be exposed until one day, his father, Obama Sr., came to visit him.

Contrary to what many people think, although obama abandoned his wife and children, he still met his son once or twice, of course, visiting him did not mean that he was responsible, that day the elder Obama just came to the school, and at Obama's pleading, he took the podium and told his legendary story and his anti-colonial ideas.
Obama was a natural orator, so much so that after his speech, his classmates at school admired Obama even more. It was one of the few happy moments in Obama's childhood memories.
Later, they met again when they were ten years old, at the airport, the father and son met by chance, so the elder Obama gave his son Obama a basketball, and left in a hurry without saying a few words, which was the only two meetings in Obama's memory, and it was such a brief meeting that supported Obama's beautiful fantasy about his father.

Thousands of miles to find roots
But obama sr. has not been as successful as he claims, and his son Mark, who gave birth to his third marriage, once described his father in his memoirs: "He always pretended to be amazing, but we know that truly confident people don't need to brag like him, and they don't need to be drunk all the time to fill their false self-confidence." 」 ”
Mark didn't lie, and compared to his brother Obama, Mark spent more time with his father, Obama Sr., and witnessed the worst stage of Obama's life. When Obama finished his studies in the United States, he returned to Kenya ambitiously, decided to realize his political ideals, and wanted to run for president with great fanfare.
But despite his excellent studies in school, when it comes to politics, his methods are still a bit naïve, and his campaign has failed unsurprisingly. From the time of his unsuccessful presidential campaign, the elder Obama became depressed and spent every day at home drinking, committing crimes from time to time, and being called into the police station.

In Mark's memory, his father did not look like a man at all, but like the drunkards and gamblers who could be seen everywhere on the streets of Kenya, and every day in addition to drinking was to vent his dissatisfaction and violence against his wife and children. He was a worst husband and the worst father, and In a way, Obama may have been lucky, because he avoided many childhood shadows because he was far away from his father.
Eventually, Obama Sr. died in 1982, less than 50 years old, and the cause of death was because of a traffic accident, which was his third car accident, and it was not at all surprising that he died in a car accident, because in the last few years of his life, he drank more and more frequently, and he did not pay more and more attention to the safety of life, and it became a matter of course to die.
After the death of his father, the connection between Obama and Kenya was also broken, in fact, obama had no connection with Kenya itself in the first half of his life, the only bond was that there was a father from Kenya, but didn't his father already abandon him?

Obama knows nothing about his relatives in Kenya and has not met any Kenyans other than his father, so it's hard to say what real kinship he has with Kenya.
Obama was later able to go down the path of president thanks to his mother's nurturing. After the departure of the elder Obama, the tenacious Ann Dunham resumed his studies, raising his children while going to graduate school, and eventually became a brilliant anthropologist, obama inherited the tenacious and indomitable qualities of his mother and laid the foundation for his later life path.
Ann Dunham later married a second time, married an Indonesian, and moved to Indonesia with young Obama to live and study, and it was not until Obama's fifth grade that his mother sent him back to Hawaii to study, because with the financial support of his mother and stepfather, Obama was able to walk all the way to a prestigious university.

As a mixed-race child, Obama's experience from childhood is very complicated, sensitive he can clearly feel the unwelcome in everyone's hearts for himself, but this can not hide Obama's excellence, he still appears to be outstanding among his peers, extremely pre-determined ideological and political insights.
Since it is such a person who is better than his peers, it is impossible not to have ambitions, Obama has targeted the American political arena, even the presidency, before Obama, no black person has ever been elected president, but Obama may not be the first.
So, for his future prospects, in 1988, Obama came to Kenya, he wanted to find his own place, of course, he also needed the support here, the status of black people has been much better than in the past, if he can win some more black solidarity, the future of his political future is unlimited.

But Obama sat on a plane to Kenya and overheard an unpleasant conversation.
Several Americans and Britons on the plane laughed at Africa's backwardness and said that Africans are a bunch of uncivilized guys, which made Obama, who is also black, very distressed, but realized that his future path was definitely not so smooth, but the enthusiasm of Kenyan relatives temporarily dispelled the unhappiness in Obama's heart.
Mr. Obama's arrival made his relatives very happy, and although his father had died that year, his aunts and uncles still regarded the child as part of their own family.
After Obama came to Kenya, he was greeted by his aunt and the owner of this big family, Obama's father has eight brothers and sisters, of course, they also have different mothers, but in Kenya, the cohesion between the families is very strong, after all, this kind of poor and backward place, without the support of a united family, life will really not go on.

In the eyes of these Kenyan relatives, Obama is a child who has won glory for them. The fact that the child actually went to a prestigious university in the United States, and was even a well-known lawyer, and now has some status in the political arena, is really too much for his relatives to grow up, so Obama has received an unprecedented welcome, and almost the entire family has come out to greet him, even his grandmother Sarah, who has never met him in person, regardless of his old age.
But Sarah is actually not related to Obama, Sarah is only the stepmother of the old Obama, but they are also a family, surrounded by these relatives, Obama almost feels as if he is a native of this village, he quickly mingles with his family, learning the local language, trying to integrate into the family environment, and took the initiative to wear local traditional clothing.
Obama also met his half-brother Malik, brother and Obama are almost two worlds of people, Obama grew up in the United States, although he has black blood, but still accepts American values, in fact, in his bones, he is completely American.

But his brother was a pure Kenyan, without any American ancestry, and grew up in a Village in Kenya, never been to the United States, and had no chance of higher education, but the brothers still had a good conversation, and Malik took out his few savings to invite Obama to drink.
The older brother's economic conditions are not good, so it is a rare luxury to drink with his brother in the village.
After getting acquainted, Obama found that his brother liked to drink very much, just because of the shyness of the pocket, so he was always reluctant to drink, for his brother and Obama showed great generosity, every day after helping the family to finish the work, Obama would take out his own money, take the initiative to invite his brother to the tavern to relax, which made the people in the village feel very good about this generous young man.

Moreover, although everyone regards Obama as a distinguished guest, Obama still took the initiative to help the family, learning to farm and carry rice in the farmland, carrying rice used to be the work of grandmother Sarah, although she is already so old, but because of the difficulties of economic conditions, she certainly has no way to lie down and retire.
Obama said that since he came, he should take the initiative to help his grandmother do some work, so every day people can see this young man from the United States, carrying a heavy bag of rice, walking on the village road.
This short kenyan life was quite useful to Obama, because this attitude toward black people, who once seemed out of place in the black community, was finally accepted, became a political representative among black people, and passed the political arena all the way through the political arena.

Political speculation
Finally, in 2008, Obama stepped into his dream presidency.
But in the process of running for president, Obama and the black community also had some friction, because someone attacked Obama at the time and said that he was a black man from Kenya, what qualifications did he have to run for president of the United States?
At that time, Obama was very angry and took out his birth certificate, saying that he was an American born and raised in Hawaii, what does it have to do with Kenya? Such indifferent words undoubtedly hurt the hearts of the black community and became a stain on Obama's character.
Between Obama and Kenya, the so-called homeland, the interests of course outweigh the feelings, it is difficult to expect a person who has never really grown up in Kenya to have any feelings for this land, and his full connection with Kenya is only a week in Kenya in the 80s, which is not enough to make him make Kenya his real home.

However, in terms of behavior, Obama can also be regarded as giving his Kenyan relatives enough face, and at his inauguration, Obama also specially took his grandmother Sarah over to witness his glory moment.
For Obama's family in Kenya, Obama became president, and they can also be said to be one person, chickens and dogs ascended to heaven, and since then they have been freed from poverty, and there is countless money as long as they receive a few interviews.
So objectively speaking, Obama's use, at least brought substantial benefits to his relatives, but also for Obama to further bring good feelings among the black community, in any case, Obama has made history, became the first black president, history will remember this moment.

That tiny village in Kenya became a popular tourist spot overnight, and everyone wanted to see what Mr. Obama's hometown looked like, even though mr. Obama was never born and raised here.
But Obama didn't mind giving the village some benefits with his celebrity aura, donating an elementary school to the village, naming it after himself, and allowing the villagers to promote it in their own name, and in the year Obama was elected president, eight boys were born here, and all eight boys were named Obama.
This is of course the result of the celebrity effect, the villagers also have a little selfishness, although this kind of behavior sounds a little strange in people, more suspected of using heat to hype, but the village can catch fire, there are tourists to make money, it is better than the past obscure, everyone use each other is not bad.

For the villagers, these incomes are enough, but for more Africans, the historical significance of Obama's presidency, which has been living in the oppression of the Western world in the past, and Obama's election gives them hope that Obama is a black president who killed from white discrimination and may bring about change in Africa.
But everyone ignores that no matter how much Obama cares about his relationship with Kenya and how he shows his friendliness to the black community, that kind of friendship is conditional.
In his mind, he was an American born and raised in Hawaii, not a Kenyan, and even less connected to Africa, how could he expect a U.S. president to have any mercy toward Africa?

Obama firmly loves his motherland and safeguards the interests of his motherland, of course, Obama's motherland is the United States, after Obama came to power, he once showed the intention of fighting for the interests of Africa, but then countless facts proved that it is too easy to say good things, but what can a few good words bring to the status quo in Africa?
After Obama was elected president, he also visited Kenya twice and said that he wanted to sign a cooperation agreement with Kenya, but in the end these things were all empty, and people realized that Obama was no different from past US presidents.
If I had to make a difference, the president of the Past United States had the support of most whites, while Obama had the support of most blacks.

All this because of the color of his skin, the weakness of being discriminated against, and the unexpected advantage of running for president, which is a historical progress, but Kenya does not enjoy these benefits, and the black people in the United States cheer for their president, but it is only a victory for the black community in the United States.
Kenya is the homeland that only exists in Obama's mouth at certain moments, and most of the time, Obama still firmly emphasizes to others that he is an American, and only if people agree that Obama is an American, no one will question the legitimacy of his president, Obama is a very realistic person, he knows how to take the greatest benefit for himself.
Real interests are always more important than illusory feelings, kenya can not expect a U.S. president to do anything, and the feelings between Obama and Kenya are nothing more than that.