"Obama's People"

About the Book

Since President Barack Obama is from a biracial heritage and is now the leader of the free world, he has become an icon for the biracial and mixed person’s ethnic and national identity. The author, also of biracial heritage, illuminates the reader on how he and other Americans of mixed heritage are now,more than ever, proud to be an American. Having high self-esteem,and a challenging, but bright future.Whether one is White, Black,Asian, Latino, Native American or mixed...President Obama represents all of us. As Americans, we will continue making important contributions to America and the world,with determination and a model for success....Yes We Can! and Yes We Are!... "Obama´s People."

About the Author

I was born a biracial child with a Scottish American father and an Egyptian/Ethiopian-American mother in 1947. Growing up as biracial in an interracial and bi-cultural family seemed perfectly normal to me until I reached the age of eight. Then the American society of my school peers told me I was different from them and attempted to make me feel “less than.” Fortunately, I had an educated mother and a loving father who practiced what he preached. . .that all people are created equal and that we should love one another. My mother was insightful enough to teach me that I had received the best from “both worlds.” She had been a schoolteacher that majored in English and minored in psychology. As luck would have it, her psychological mentor was Alfred Adler whose primary premise was that human being are usually trying to move from an inferior state of being to a more superior state. Fortunately, for me I believed what my mother taught me, in spite of society’s attempts to damage my ego strength. I was also fortunate to have a father that was a member of the dominant culture (even though he received tons of discrimination when folks found out he was married to a “Negro” .. . that’s what African Americans were called in the 1940’s to the mid 1960’s. My mother also had her share.). He never told me that there were things I was not capable of doing, unlike, my African-American friends. I found it different when would over-hear my Black friend’s fathers that would tell them to be on the look out for prejudiced Whites and discriminatory practices. I later realized later in life that their fathers were just trying to protect them, but it also had a secondary effect. It limited them in some way to go after any goal they fancied. My father never gave me any limitations. If I ran into limitations.. .I did just that …I ran right into them. Almost always, I usually found a way to surmount them or get around them to achieve whatever I set out to accomplish. It was my inner belief that I was OK. So, whatever goal I entertained, . . .I just went after it. My entire life is a testimony to this type of attitude and belief system. If I believed it, I could achieve it.. .that’s the story of my life in America. May God Bless America and President Barack Obama that has created a clear and proud identity for BiRacials and mixed people in this country and the world. Dr. Phillip D. MacFarland, Ph.D., MSc, MA, BA, LCP, author/psychologist