When Barry Became Barack

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• March 23, 2008
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  When Barry Became Barack

  Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:39pm

  It's clear that he was trying to fit in somehow, but not in the way of his father's generation. He wanted to be taken seriously, perhaps to rebel against the compromises blacks and others were expected to make in a white-dominated society. But more generally, he was also looking for a community that would accept him as he was, inside and out.