Obama's half brother speaks out on abusive father

[greenbriar]

GUANGZHOU, China – President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.

"My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that," said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama Sr.'s third wife. "It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with."


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_en_ot/as_chin...

[saracat]

1. This is news?????? I am sorry to here this but it isn't news.

[cali]

2. um. are you confused as to what forum you're in?

This is GD, not late breaking and you know perfectly well that everything from American Idol to movies is discussed here. Why so outraged over this OP?

[greenbriar]

3. I am used to it...lends credence to the following post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[saracat]

7. I am not outraged. I just don't understand the signifigance of the post

But then you are right, a lot of GDesn't have any relevance.

[greenbriar]

8. well, the significance is that the book is due out soon

and it was in Yahoo's top news items of the hour

so I don't understand your "outrage" and if it didn't concern you, why did you click on the thread just to make a disparaging remark?

when I scan the threads on DU, if a topic doesn't interest me, I move on and don't click on it

[saracat]

9. I thought it was goingv to be more "signifigant" than it was but hey, mistakes happen.

[greenbriar]

10. I think this is cool. His motive is TO RAISE AWARENESS of domestic violence

In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.

[dionysus]

4. someone just can't help themselves!

[greenbriar]

5. do you mean "hear" dear?

just asking

[greenbriar]

6. and now here comes the neg rep brigade

right on cue

[Hutzpa]

11. That would teach you

[greenbriar]

12. yea, I know

sigh

[AnnieBW]

13. How Long Until Limpballs

seizes on this as "his brother lives is (ooooh, scary)CHINA" and/or "Obama is abusing us like his father abused his mother."

[greenbriar]

14. oh you are probably right

that pig can not resist something like this.

When the book comes out, he will probably twist it all around