In Barack Obama: The Story, Washington Post journalist David Maraniss reveals that at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Obama was mocked by UJIMA, the black student group on campus.
He spent hours listening to the music of reggae king's Bob Marley and became obsessed with his deeply political album Survival.
He also became a huge fan of Stevie Wonder and took a boring low-paid job so he could understand what it was like to be poor and black
