Barack Obama's mother 'was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without his knowledge'
Barack Obama's mother was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without the future president's knowledge, a new book claims.
Ann Dunham gave Barack Obama Sr regular updates about his life during the 1960s and 70s and even sent him school reports.
It was not until the 1980s that Mr Obama became aware of the contact between the two - but he still did not forgive his father for being an absent dad.
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Barack Obama was shocked to find out from a
half-sister on his father's side that his mother Anne Dunham was in
regular contact with his father throughout his childhood, even sending
school reports to him in Kenya
She said he was a 'prisoner of his principles' who would do endless favours for others even if they had a history of failing to reciprocate.
Auma Obama recounts meeting her brother for the
first time in the 1980s in Chicago in her memoir And Then Life Happens.
While on the trip she told the future president about his parents'
communication
Father and son met just one more time, at Christmas in 1971, leaving the future president with a void in his life he spoke moving about in his memoir 'Dreams of My Father'.
Now his half sister Auma - one of Barack Obama Sr's daughter from his second marriage - has revealed that Mr Obama's mother was keeping secrets from him for his childhood and adolescence.
Adding to his agony is that Barack Obama Sr died in 1982, and Ms Dunham died in 1995 meaning Mr Obama will never get answers from either of them.
In her autobiography 'And Then Life Happens', Auma Obama writes of a conversation she had with her brother. After their father's second wife Ruth left him, Barack Obama Sr 'kept promising us that you [President Obama] and your mother would come visit us in Kenya.'
The book says: 'I (Auma) believed him and waited a long time in vain for your visit.'
'Barack looked at me with astonishment. 'I knew absolutely nothing about that,' he replied after a brief silence.
'(I said) They wrote to each other. But you know that, right? Your mother always sent him your school report cards and regularly told him how you were doing.
'He always knew what was going on with you. He told us and anyone who would listen about you. From his descriptions, I knew you pretty well. So I thought at the time, anyway.'
'I couldn't interpret the expression on Barack's face, but I nonetheless had the sense that what I had just said moved him.
'"But that wasn't enough," he said finally.'
Auma also said their father was a 'prisoner of
his principles' who would do endless favours for friends and family.
Here is the future president with extended family on a 1987 Kenya visit,
five years after his father's death
She had left him in Hawaii with his grandparents whilst she went off to further her studies in Indonesia with his half sister Maya in tow.
Obama also told his sister how his mother loved Indonesia and left her children in Hawaii to study there
But Auma writes: 'As he said that, he shook his head with amusement, as if he had long ago given up the attempt to understand her.'
Adding to the intrigue is that whilst Ms Dunham was giving her ex-husband updates on Barack Obama's childhood progress, she was married to her second husband Lolo Soetoro.
He also told Auma of younger sister Maya, his mother's daughter with Lolo. 'You’ll like her,' he said. 'She’s charming.'
In the book Auma Obama also recounts how during their first conversations, she also told him some home truths about their father.
In the book she writes that she said: 'Our father was someone from whom everyone expected too much.
'He didn't know how to defend himself against the many demands made on him. His sense of duty toward the larger Obama family was very strong. But the reverse was unfortunately not always the case.
When they met the future president also told his
half-sister about his half-sister Maya on his mother's side, with whom
he was and is still close, making Auama hopeful they would also be close
some day
'...it's simply what our tradition requires. There were times when there wasn't even enough money for my school fees, and I had to watch our father give away everything he had left to a relative. He was always confident that we would somehow get by.'
Family: Auma Obama and older half-brother Barack in Chicago after meeting for the first
They disclosures are not the first time Barack Obama Sr has come under scrutiny.
Documents from the U.S. immigration service from the 1960s suggested agents thought he was a serial womaniser and polygamist.
The files state that he was still supposedly married to a woman in Kenya when he wed Ms Dunham and that at Harvard University he 'had an eye for the ladies'.
Yet Mr Obama's father is not the only member of his family who has a colourful history.
His uncle Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested in August last year for driving under the influence and other motoring offences.
He was found to have violated an order to go back to his native Kenya 20 years ago and, according to a police report, told officers: 'I think I will call the White House'.
Mr Obama's sister Zeituni Onyango faced with deportation from the U.S. until a judge in Boston granted her asylum last year.
Mr Obama's former nanny has also been revealed as a gay transgender man who worked as a prostitute and made the future president laugh by trying on his mother's lipstick.
'Evie' cared for the boy she called Barry when Ms Dunham moved to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta in the late 1960s.
Mr Obama himself last year released his long form birth certificate to silence the 'birther' row and prove he was born in Hawaii and not Kenya, making him eligible to be the U.S. president.
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