Writes Joe Cesarone: “The London Times attempts to scandalize Barack Obama with its portrayal of Mark Ndesandjo, Barack’s capitalist half brother who they found living in Shenzen, China. Excerpts:
BARACK Obama’s half-brother has been helping to promote cheap Chinese exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House…
…He lives in Nanshan, a brash new district of high-rises and streets teeming after dark with young migrants eating spicy street food and cramming into bars, karaoke joints and massage parlours.
“He is big, strong and full of energy, speaks good Chinese and is a really easygoing guy,” said a Chinese friend, “He always wears a hat over his shaven head. I believe he has several consultancy jobs.”…
… Obama painted a disappointed picture of his half-brother in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, in which he celebrated his own return to Kenya and rediscovery of his African inheritance…
… Obama wrote that Mark didn’t want to ask himself a lot of questions about the meaning of racial identity, dismissing the idea with the words: “life’s hard enough without all that excess baggage.”
“So here we have one half-brother who spends his time actually delivering useful products and services to people in the private sector, especially low-income people, and another half-brother who parasitically feeds off the private sector for personal gain while at the same time seeking to strangle that sector with ever-increasing state power. It’s not surprising that the first half-brother has little time for ‘the meaning of racial identity’, as he is an active participant of the private sector which brings all races together in peaceful cooperation, while the second half-brother must constantly divide the world up based on skin color, so he can heal the world and provide ‘hope’ with redistribution via the barrel of a gun.”
11:11 am on July 27, 2008
