Bodysurfing in Hawaii
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and went to its prestigious Punahou High School, spending a few years of his childhood in Indonesia. I lived across the street from his high school, although a few years after he graduated. I don't know Obama, at least not much more than anyone watching the news these days, but I do have some insights into the environment he lived in while in Hawaii.
One of the things to recognize was that Obama lived in Hawaii while a Japanese-American governor came to power. While in high school, he would have seen Gov. George Ariyoshi emerge as the first US governor of Asian descent, an extraordinary event at the time that was widely celebrated in Hawaii.
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