Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Barack Obama Revealed He Called People Homophobic Slurs When He Was a Teenager
stylecaster.comThere was once a time when President Barack Obama used homophobic slurs as a teenager, a choice that he is now “profoundly ashamed” of.
The former President made this surprising admission in A Promised Land, his new memoir, which hit shelves on Wednesday, November 17.
In the book, Barack is honest about his how his LGBTQ views have changed over the years, admitting that his “attitudes toward gays, lesbians, and transgender people hadn’t always been particularly enlightened” in the years before he entered politics.
It took going to college to change his perspective. Barack reveals that, as a teenager, he and his friends “sometimes threw around” homophobic slurs at each other as “casual put-downs—callow attempts to fortify our masculinity and
