Obama's half brother speaks out on abusive father

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_china_obama_brother

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?

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

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

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

:rofl:

just asking

right on cue

:rofl:

sigh

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

that pig can not resist something like this.

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