Obama's White Grandmother: Tutu.

This is an interesting story about the Obama family that might shed some light on his attitudes toward life and where some of his strengths have come from. Obama's Tutu  It is really an interesting thing that his grandmother was a groundbreaker too:

While Obama's views on race relations in America were being shaped, his maternal grandmother — Madelyn Dunham, now 85 — received a series of promotions at Hawai'i's top bank. And in December 1970, she was named one of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii.

This is the lady that folks have been talking about as the subject of remarks Obama made in his speech on ethnic attitudes in America today.  

In his speech, Obama linked Wright and Dunham when he said, "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

I grew up in Hawaii and learned a lot from this well written Honolulu Advertiser article.  Try check it out here: