Obama's mom was kind of a badass.

She married an African when interracial marriage was illegal in almost half the U.S. At 24, she moved from Kansas to Indonesia and became a blacksmith while raising two kids as a single mother. Whatever you think of him, Obama's mom was kind of a badass.

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Obama's mom was kind of a badass.

She married an African when interracial marriage was illegal in almost half the U.S. At 24, she moved from Kansas to Indonesia and became a blacksmith while raising two kids as a single mother. Whatever you think of him, Obama's mom was kind of a badass.

Ann Dunham, who jettisoned the name Stanley upon emerging from childhood, was just 17 years old in the fall of 1960 when she became pregnant with the child of a charismatic Kenyan named Barack Hussein Obama, a fellow student at the University of Hawaii who was more than six years her senior. She dropped out of school, married him and gave birth shortly before their union ended. In the aftermath, she met Lolo Soetoro, an amiable, easygoing, tennis-playing graduate student from the Indonesian island of Java. They married in 1964, after Ann’s divorce came through, but their early life together was upended by forces beyond their control.

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