Posted on 11/10/2008 8:59:06 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Obamas half brother and six-year resident of Shenzhen, sent his congratulations to Obama yesterday immediately after the U.S. Democratic senator won the 2008 presidential election.
Mark Ndesandjo (2nd from left) teaches children to play the piano at
Shenzhen Social Welware Center. This picture was featured in the Shenzhen
Daily on March 11, 2004.
Ndesandjo was very happy about his half brothers victory and sent him his best wishes, Ndesandjos best Chinese friend and business partner Sui Zhengjun told the Shenzhen Daily yesterday.
We sent text messages to each other after the election, and he was very happy with the outcome, Sui said. He, like many Americans, has very high hopes about Obamas concept of change and hopes Obama can really bring changes to America. He told me he was very satisfied as not only Obamas half brother but also as an American.
Ndesandjo disappeared from the public after media reported at the end of July that he was Obamas half brother and was a businessman living in Shenzhen. Sui refused to say where Ndesandjo was at the moment, suggesting that the First Half Brother might go back to America to avoid the media.
Ndesandjos company, an Internet-based consulting company, Worldnexus Ltd., in Nanshan District is still under operation despite a July Sunday Times report that Ndesandjo said it was not trading and might restart next year.
Sui, the register of the company, confirmed that Ndesandjo, the companys former senior partner, had left the company at the beginning of this year for personal reasons but would come back in 2009.
The company is still under normal operations. It will not be affected by any persons coming and going, Sui said.
Ndesandjos mobile was switched off yesterday morning and turned on later after the election was finished. However, several calls by the Shenzhen Daily went unanswered.
After Ndesandjos identity was revealed, the wine producers of Shenyang Dragon Medical Co. Ltd., Liaoning Province, invited Ndesandjo to be their product spokesman. Ndesandjo turned down the offer, saying that he would think about it after the election.
Sui said Ndesandjo still had no intention to do so, adding that his friend was not that kind of person and preferred a quiet life.
Ndesandjo is the son of Obamas late father and his third wife. He came to Shenzhen from Florida in 2002 and is now engaged to a Chinese woman from Henan Province.
The Shenzhen Daily first wrote about his life in a March 11, 2004 report. The story, titled More than just donating, described his charity activities for orphans at Shenzhen Social Welfare Center.
yitbos
Gets more unbelievable as the days wear on.
I understand that. Shenzen is a beautiful new city on the mainland side of Hong Kong. I am just wondering how all these Obama children got scattered to so many corners of the earth.
When will he start wearing a beret?
I know they check for guns, but are machetes allowed at political conventions? It seems to be acceptable in Africa and we are multi cultural and open minded now.
Hell, why not? Welcome to the banana republic of America.
Got me.
I said it on a thread about a week ago; half the world is a half-relative of Obama!
“Is Shenzhen in one of those muslim parts of China? “
No. It’s the mainland side of Hong Kong. It is a relatively new city, but huge by American standards. It’s also very clean and pretty compared to most Chinese cities because it is so new.
The One doesn’t seem to care about them, why should we. He doesn’t even visit his aunt in Boston. Would he care if they were kidnapped? His biggest concern would be the bad PR.
Oh grow up! You really just showed your ignorance with that comment. I am all for being against Obama’s policies and political philosophies, but with that snide remark about Shenzen and Islam you just proved the stereotypical dumb redneck image yet again.
BTW, Shenzhen is a magnificent city in the Guandong province of China, near Hong Kong. There is probably more free market capitalism going on in Chinese cities like Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai these days than in all of Europe combined.
Well, there's the uncle politico in Kenya who wants an autonomous socialist/Islamic state who Hussein campaigned for as a Senator.
Then there's the half-bro living in Red China.
Those could be of concern. Both have used the fact that they are related to Hussein for personal gain.
yitbos
There’s at least one half-sister. Maybe more.
This one actually looks like zero.
What's with the hostilities? fso301 asked a simple question.
which required a simple answer. Not all of us Freepers are China experts and don't deserve to be attacked for asking a simple high school geography question.
A different article about the brother:
Obamas half-brother is a reluctant star in China
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127586/posts
From what I understand, there are areas of China with a high proportion of muslims, and they actually have what their government calls a “muslim problem”.
Try working on using your brain more than your emotions.
In 1964, Obama Senior married his third wife, an American-born teacher called Ruth, who met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann and who followed him to Africa. She now runs the up-market Maduri kindergarten in Nairobi.
Senior had two children with Ruth.
One of them is Obamas half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, who 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 has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention and his family links remain unknown to most of his acquaintances in Shenzhen, a border boomtown in southern China where he has lived since 2002.
Obama refers to Mark as “my brother” and says he was the only uncontested heir after their father, a Kenyan, died in a car crash in 1982.
Mark’s internet-based company, Worldnexus Ltd., provides corporate communications and website design to Chinese firms seeking customers in English-speaking markets, of which the United States is the biggest.
Worldnexus is not registered to conduct business in Shenzhen and officials at the citys commercial administration bureau said this raised potential issues of taxation and compliance with the law by its customers.
Ndesandjo, who had an elite education in the United States, collecting a degree from Brown University, a masters in physics from Stanford and an MBA from Emory, did not share Obamas emotional view of his roots.
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.
At a rather tense lunch, Obama quoted “Mark” — his family name is never given away in the book — as saying Kenya was “just another poor African country” to which he felt little attachment.
Mark added: “theres not much work for a physicist, is there, in a country where the average person doesnt have a telephone.”
According to Obamas account, Mark looked him in the eye and said: “You think that somehow Im cut off from my roots, that sort of thing. Well, youre right.”
“At a certain point I made the decision not to think about who my real father was. He was dead to me even when he was still alive. I knew that he was a drunk and showed no concern for his wife and children. Thats enough.”
Barack Obama senior fathered eight children by four different women.
Obama has described Mark as “a black man of my height and complexion with a bush Afro and horn-rimmed glasses” who was studying physics at Berkeley during Obama’s 1987 visit.
Obama wrote that Mark didnt want to ask himself a lot of questions about the meaning of racial identity, dismissing the idea with the words: “lifes hard enough without all that excess baggage.”
Asked if he was quoted accurately in the book, Ndesandjo did not respond.
Obama wrote that on parting, “we exchanged addresses and promised to write, with a dishonesty that made my heart ache.”
Two decades after that encounter, the extended and complex Obama family is bound to come under further scrutiny after the US election.
“That not enough has been written about his family is strange,” wrote columnist Roger Cohen in the New York Times last March.”
Of course Cohen and his fellow Obama sycophants could have corrected that at any time - - but they didn’t.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaFamily.htm
Try cracking open a geography book before asking such an asinine question.
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