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Being Obama’s Brother

In November 2008, I stood in a bar in Kenya watching Barack Obama give his victory speech. From the wild cheering of the crowd on TV, and his repeated appeals to them personally—"You said," "You heard," "You called"—I felt as if the people of America knew this man far better than I, even though we shared the same father. If there was a leading light in the Obama clan, he was it; and if there was a shadowed place that no one liked to talk about, then that, I guess, was me.

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I hope the brother rises to true leadership role in Kenya.


-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 3rd of January 2010 04:01:24 PM