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"The 500-page book includes an appendix listing a number of alleged factual errors in Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams from my Father," such as quotes incorrectly attributed to Ndesandjo's mother.
"It's a correction. A lot of the stuff that Barack wrote is wrong in that book and I can understand that because to me for him the book was a tool for fashioning an identity and he was using composites," Ndesandjo said.
"I wanted to bring it up because first of all I wanted the record to be straight. I wanted to tell my own story, not let people tell it for me," he said.
Why is the title of your thread about abuse, but the body of the thread is a statement that there were errors in a book and that a new book lists them?
OK , so this is about Obama's half brother and the abuse Obama's father inflicted on his new wife about 10 years after he left Stanley. Obama barely knew his father. I'm not surprised that Obama got some family stories wrong. I get some of my family's old stories wrong because I was too young or wasn't there. What is your point?
OK , so this is about Obama's half brother and the abuse Obama's father inflicted on his new wife about 10 years after he left Stanley. Obama barely knew his father. I'm not surprised that Obama got some family stories wrong. I get some of my family's old stories wrong because I was too young or wasn't there. What is your point?
I found it interesting. Obama has such a high opinion of his father in the book he wrote but that's probably because he never knew him. I think he only met him once. It's probably for the best if the man was abusive.
Just another relative of someone who is well known wanting to get themselves in the spotlight.
I don't see where this is or should be important to anyone but the family involved.
I think it's natural for any child to build a fantasy about an absent parent, one they never knew in real life. I imagine that urge is even more heightened if the person is black being raised by a white family, with no contact from the black side of his family. It's not always the case. I do have a very dear friend who has a black child from a college relationship, but ended up marrying her high school sweetheart a couple of years later. The boy is very dark skinned, yet the only dad he's ever known is blonde with blue eyes. I sometimes wonder if the kid feels different, but I can say that everyone in that family loves that boy like crazy. He's a great kid, so it would be impossible not to.
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