“I was a little shy and I kind of remember touching his hair and him towering over me. I didn’t know how powerful he was,” Philadelphia said in the video. “When I was younger, I just thought the President was just my dad’s boss. Philadelphia also spoke about the moment and how he remembers that day in the Oval Office. It would speak to Black kids and Latino kids and gay kids and young girls - how they could see the world open up for them,” the former President said. To see a person who looked like them in the Oval Office.
“I remember telling Michelle and some of my staff, you know, I think that if I were to win, the day I was sworn into office, young people, particularly African American people, people of color, outsiders, folks who maybe didn’t always feel like they belonged, they’d look at themselves differently. “I think this picture embodied one of the hopes that I’d had when I first started running for office,” Obama said.
