Barack Obama has said all young boys should have a mixture of male role models and friends, including a gay person so that they don’t grow up ‘ignorant’.
The former president spoke with his wife Michelle Obama on the podcast she hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson, called IMO, which stands for ‘in my opinion’.
Obama, 63, whose own father was absent in Kenya during his upbringing, said that even if boys have a ‘great dad’ they need more than one male role model.
‘One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was, I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren’t out,’ the Harvard Law graduate-turned-Democrat politician said.