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| Documentary finds Obama's half-brot |
| Documentary finds Obama's half-brother in Kenya slums
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 11-July-2012
4:26:54 AM |
| Barack Obama's slum-dwelling half-brother in Kenya says he needs no help from his powerful sibling, in an election-year documentary that is highly critical of the US president.
"I think he has a family of his own," said George Obama in a park-bench interview with conservative author Dinesh D'Souza that is a highlight of "2016: Obama's America," which premieres this week in Houston, Texas.
"I'm a member of his family, but I'm over-age, so I help myself," the younger Obama said in a four-minute clip that appears on the website of the Hollywood Reporter (www.hollywoodreporter.com) trade journal.
D'Souza, author of the 2011 bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," said he tracked down the US president's brother in Nairobi after seeing a news report about him living in squalor in the Kenyan capital.
The film clip does not mention that Obama grew up in a well-to-do part of Nairobi, before he ventured toward its slums, ultimately working with a charity he co-founded to help young people trapped in poverty.
When D'Souza, citing the Bible, suggests that President Obama -- who is up for re-election in November -- is failing in his duty as "his brother's keeper," George
Obama replies: "He's got other issues to deal with." "He's taking care of the world, so he's taking care of me."
George Obama, appearing for the first time in a movie, goes on to say that Kenya might be enjoying a higher level of development today had British colonial rule -- which ended in 1963 -- lasted for a bit longer.
"But it's true," he said. "They would have developed us. Instead we were fighting, fighting, fighting over nothing. We are third world, second world."
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