Barack Obama has a heartwarming reunion with Jacob Philadelphia 13 years after the viral “hair like mine” photo.
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The two first met in 2009, when Jacob was visiting the Oval Office with his dad, former National Security Council staffer Carlton Philadelphia. The then-5-year-old and his older brother spoke with Obama responded by bending over so Jacob could hold his hand out and feel his hair for himself."Go ahead, touch it," Obama said at the time.
"I think this picture embodied one of the hopes I had when I first started running for office," Obama said."I remember tellingand some of my staff, 'I think that if I were to win, the day that I was sworn into office, young people, particularly African American people, people of color, outsiders, folks who maybe always didn't feel like they belonged, they'd look at themselves differently to see a person who looks like them in the Oval Office...
Jacob, who has traveled the world as the son of a State Department employee, told the former president he plans to attend the University of Memphis and study political science after high school."Yes, it really has," Jacob responded.
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