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Unlike Bill Clinton, he did not have a mother telling everyone that her first-grader would grow up to be president. When Obama was a toddler in Honolulu, his white grandfather boasted that his grandson was a Hawaiian prince, but that was more to explain his skin color than to promote family aspirations. (Even his family was racist towards him.)

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When Barack Obama worked as a community organizer amid the bleak industrial decay of Chicago’s far South Side during the 1980s, he tried to follow a mantra of that profession: Dream of the world as you wish it to be, but deal with the world as it is. (It shows how hard a worker Obama was even at that time.)

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A day earlier, 900 miles away in Johannesburg, the president’s motorcade had pulled up to the Nelson Mandela Center of Memory, where Obama met privately with Mandela’s daughters Makaziwe Mandela and Zindzi Mandela Hlongwane, as well as a number of his grandchildren. Mandela, 94, was in the hospital, severely ill, and Obama had chosen not to visit the ailing icon out of respect for his health concerns. (This shows that no matter the fact that Nelson Mandela is a historic figure he still understands that he probably won't want to be visited in his condition.)

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Zoom in, and the scene is like so many others: An American family on vacation, touring a historical site abroad. The father is in khakis and a navy windbreaker, the mother in a sweater and sensible pumps, and their two school-age daughters in casual wear and sneakers, arms crossed and looking slightly bored as an elderly tour guide explains the global significance of a pile of limestone rocks. (It makes it seem like a normal day, not the American President going to Africa.)

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During his second year in office, Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act. The law reduced the disparity in the penalties for crack and powder cocaine, which civil rights leaders had said for years unfairly punished African Americans. (Showed that he worked hard for his people.)

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Criminal justice was always a priority issue for Barack Obama.“Since my first campaign, I’ve talked about how, in too many cases, our criminal justice system ends up being a pipeline from underfunded, inadequate schools to overcrowded jails,” he declared in the summer of 2015. (How did he deal with Crime?

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Beginning with the 2012 shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, the nation reopened an intense debate on the continued horror of institutional racism evidenced by a string of high-profile deaths of black men, women, boys and girls at the hands of law enforcement. (Have questions on how this affected Obama's presidency at the time.)

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The Obama victory helped fulfill one of the great ambitions of the civil rights struggle by showcasing the ability of extraordinarily talented black Americans to lead and excel in all facets of American life. (Want to learn more about)