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Obama's Brother Speaks Out
ZHOU, China -- The mixed-race son of a brilliant but troubled Kenyan academic and a white American woman writes an emotionally wrenching book about his search for identity and self.
This is not the familiar story of President Obama. It is the tale of his publicity-shy younger half-brother, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, who has lived in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for seven years and has just produced a loosely autobiographical work of fiction titled "Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East."
Barack Obama Sr. married Mark's mother, Ruth Nidesand, while he was studying at Harvard after divorcing President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. The elder Obama and Nidesand lived together in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, where Mark spent much of his childhood.
How much of the book is true?
While he allowed that some of the characters are composites, he said many scenes echoed his own experience as a victim of, and witness to, domestic violence.
"My father beat me. He beat my mother. And you just don't do that," Ndesandjo said later. "I shut those thoughts in the back of my mind for many years."
"I remember times in my house when I would hear the screams, and I would hear my mother's pain," he said. "I was a child. . . . I could not protect her."
Ndesandjo said his memories of his father were so bitter that he stopped using the name Obama and adopted the last name of his stepfather, a man Ruth Nidesand married after divorcing Barack Obama Sr. But then, Mark Ndesandjo said, he watched the televised scenes of joy in Chicago's Grant Park the night a man with that hated last name was elected president of the United States.
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This is not the familiar story of President Obama. It is the tale of his publicity-shy younger half-brother, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, who has lived in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for seven years and has just produced a loosely autobiographical work of fiction titled "Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East."Barack Obama Sr. married Mark's mother, Ruth Nidesand, while he was studying at Harvard after divorcing President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. The elder Obama and Nidesand lived together in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, where Mark spent much of his childhood.
How much of the book is true?
While he allowed that some of the characters are composites, he said many scenes echoed his own experience as a victim of, and witness to, domestic violence.
"My father beat me. He beat my mother. And you just don't do that," Ndesandjo said later. "I shut those thoughts in the back of my mind for many years."
"I remember times in my house when I would hear the screams, and I would hear my mother's pain," he said. "I was a child. . . . I could not protect her."
Ndesandjo said his memories of his father were so bitter that he stopped using the name Obama and adopted the last name of his stepfather, a man Ruth Nidesand married after divorcing Barack Obama Sr. But then, Mark Ndesandjo said, he watched the televised scenes of joy in Chicago's Grant Park the night a man with that hated last name was elected president of the United States.
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cool interview
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Well, at least that's the end of the Robocalls
for a while, anyway. My sister in NJ counted 17 over the last two days. Mostly from the Repubs. I think they learned something from the last election.
Here in VA, I didn't get quite as many-- maybe 10 or 12. I don't listen long enough to tell which side is calling. My mind is already made up.
Here in VA, I didn't get quite as many-- maybe 10 or 12. I don't listen long enough to tell which side is calling. My mind is already made up.
What the PEOPLE WANT
Health Care Reform could be VERY simple if someone was listening to WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT!
1. Single Payer/Public Option
2. NO FINES!!!!
3. HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!!!
4. Stop pissing away funds on WAR and the HEALTH CARE REFORM act will be financed @ $150,000,000 per day!
TOO SIMPLE FOR YOU?
1. Single Payer/Public Option
2. NO FINES!!!!
3. HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!!!
4. Stop pissing away funds on WAR and the HEALTH CARE REFORM act will be financed @ $150,000,000 per day!
TOO SIMPLE FOR YOU?
I can hear it NOW
Having watched the new version of "V" last night I could not help thinking this is more fodder for the Republicans. The V Vistors offered Free Health Care and were indoctrinating young followers. I can hear it now.... "I told you, HE was not from the United States...he's an alien". Well kids, just like so much you republicans believe...the show is just fiction TOO!!!
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.... LOL
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.... LOL
Climate Change Summit
Now the REPUBLICANS are boycotting the Climate Change Summit. What the hell do you people believe in? Okay besides MONEY and YOURSELVES! AND your FAKE God shield is not going to work here. (NO I am not saying GOD is fake, I am saying these people invoke God only to hide behind, not believe in!)
YOU GET 'EM
As mod, I have the right to delete any posts I find ofrensive. But, I refuse to do so. I have been involced in many right-wing groups and have been deleted because I dared to go against the group, and was summarily booted. I won't do that here, on principle. Besides, I love seeing you guys take them. Go get 'em, Obsmsphilres.
A $1 trillion price tag!
A $1 trillion price tag!
The "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (HR 3962)
President Obama promised "transparency" and that any bill would be written in public. That was a lie.
You Democrats are going for broke, which means we'll all be broke if this is not stopped.
Does anyone really believe that a government plan consisting of nearly two thousand pages will simplify things and leave us a freer people?
The ongoing takeover attempt of our health care system is proof that Congressman have regrown their tin ears now that they're back in the Beltway bubble, insulated from constituents.
The "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (HR 3962)
President Obama promised "transparency" and that any bill would be written in public. That was a lie.
You Democrats are going for broke, which means we'll all be broke if this is not stopped.
Does anyone really believe that a government plan consisting of nearly two thousand pages will simplify things and leave us a freer people?
The ongoing takeover attempt of our health care system is proof that Congressman have regrown their tin ears now that they're back in the Beltway bubble, insulated from constituents.
