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Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt

Started by dsnope, 10/30/2008 02:01AM
Posted 10/30/2008 02:01AM Opening Post
Barack wrote about his dear Aunt Onyango in his first book "Dreams of My Father."
That was before she ended up in a Boston slum.
Thankfully, the foreign press was able to track her down.
Times Online reported:

Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.

The US press has repeatedly rehearsed Mr Obama’s extraordinary odyssey, but the other side of the family’s American experience has only been revealed in parts. Just across town from where Mr Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, some of his closest blood relatives have confronted the harshness of immigrant life in America.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece

Once again-- It was a foreign news agency that discovered this story on Barack Obama's family members.
Like every one of these previous articles:

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Obama's Long Lost Brother Lives In Kenyan Slum Hut
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