Struggles and Obstacles

Obama was raised in Hawaii, where there was an extremely small African American population, he was brought up by a white family, but treated as a Hawaiian, African American, White, and Indonesian. In his quote, "I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child," Obama later recalled. "And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me." He also faced identity problems because he is African American and voting for office.