re.
Name: Mark O Ndesandjo
Birth Date: Nov 1965
Phone Number: 665-2826
Address: 2243 19th Av, San Francisco, California 94116-0801 (1993)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Saturday, May 2, 1992
DRED SCOTT
OF THE ERA
Editor — Hey, Rodney, why worry? After all, this was going to happen. You see, the word ``beat’’ is qualified. This word, in the minds of many Americans, has a different definition when applied to certain minorities. In many cases, ``to kill’’ is itself a qualified infinitive. To all those Americans whose disappointment has grown into numbness, stand up. Do something. Apathy is the worst reaction. All right, there is indeed no voice for these tanned, bruised, Americans in the courts, and within the dull, gray corridors of police departments across the nation. For God’s sake, write, yell, stand up, throw food against the wall! Write to your congresspersons. Be heard. I hurt. You hurt too. Actually the hurt has become normal for me. My hea rt stands between an escapist neutrality and a ``goodness I hurt but this verdict will be forgotten in a day after the next train crash on the evening news’’ type of apathy. What else can we do? America gives us individual voices. America also silences u s through our impotence at being nationally heard. Behold the speechless democracy!
Rodney King has become a symbol. His experience has tainted the American dream. More elusive is the goal of us dreamers, and, for select minorities, fraught with difficulties. This infamous verdict, this Dred Scott of the Era, this backlash, this stinging lash of truth’s hard blinding light, goes beyond the individuals involved. It is not a signpost of our times. One that might herald the beginning of good things, or the ominous precursor of moral blight that withers the nation. Until the coming events are written in stone, these people of America can only struggle against the screams of execration of their brothers and sisters.
MARK NDESANDJO
San Francisco
re. Name: Mark Ndesandjo
City: Bayonne
State: New Jersey
Zip Code: 07002
Phone Number: 201-858-3527
Residence Years: 1997
READERS’ FORUM
Star-Ledger, The (Newark, NJ) - Sunday, August 11, 1996
Sniffing Armani perfume and dusting down their Gucci suits, Newt Gingrich and his presidential and congressional brethren smile at each other. They have saved children from welfare by eliminating it. And many across America join in the refrain: .Let them go hungry. There is something wrong with these dirty Americans. After all, they are poor. These criminals and their children, what of them? They deserve no handouts. There is no crime more shameful than poverty..
No matter that the last time there was no federal help for the poor, a third of the nation was ill housed, ill clad or ill nourished. No matter that the size of the program is a pittance compared with the whims of generals and captains of industry trafficking in billion-dollar armament sales. No matter that there was a time when Americans cared about the less fortunate. These days a declining America attacks its own. Mark Ndesandjo , Wantage
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READER FORUM
Star-Ledger, The (Newark, NJ) - Friday, August 8, 1997
Clinton caves in
The President and Congress have finally reached that point where it makes political sense not to do battle but to agree on a soulless budget. Meanwhile, children remain uninsured, welfare alumni are forced to learn to distinguish between various species of tree leaves and the Bill of Rights is enfeebled by five people who probably never faced the human beings diminished by their rulings.
Bill Clinton has let a great opportunity pass him by. He could have mustered popular support in the face of a hostile Congress had he been willing to take more risks. Instead, he eliminated welfare rather than reform it, and he now makes pretty speeches about racial harmony and saving our children without doing much about it. His pulpit is a loud and hollow one. “Congress leaves me no wiggle-room!” he may wail. But Ronald Reagan was able to produce results over the objections of a Democratic Congress. Clinton caved in. He was just a man. But one must be more of a man to be my president. I guess I was guilty of dreaming too much. Mark Ndesandjo , Wantage
PUBLIC RECORD
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL - Thursday, December 20, 2001
Ronald J. Feibus et al. to Mark O. Ndesandjo , Forrest Hills, $448,400
Good finds, & the Georgia address from Brown Deer in Post #61 says record was created in 2002
Record Created: 03/2002
Title:Obama’s brother pushes Chinese imports on US.
Authors:Michael Sheridan in Shenzhen, China.
Source:Sunday Times, The; 07/27/2008.
Accession Number:7EH0924545703
Section: Overseas news, pg. 27 - News
THE half-brother of Barack Obama has been helping to promote cheap Chinese
exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been
winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House.
He has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention and his family
links remain unknown to most of his acquaintances in Shenzhen, a boom town in
southern China where he has lived since 2002.
Mark Ndesandjo, who is in his early forties, is the son of Obama’s late father
and his third wife, an American named Ruth Nidesand who runs the upmarket
Madari kindergarten in Nairobi. Obama refers to him simply as “my brother” and
says he was the only uncontested heir when their father, a Kenyan, died in a
car crash in 1982.
However, the two men held sharply diverging views on their African heritage
and while Obama chose to live in the glare of publicity, his half-brother
submerged himself in the most cosmopolitan city in China.
Friends say he has a Chinese girlfriend in her twenties from Henan, a poor,
landlocked province that sends millions of migrants to the coastal cities.
He lives in Nanshan, a brash new district of high-rises and streets teeming
after dark with young migrants eating spicy street food and cramming into bars,
karaoke joints and massage parlours.
“He is big, strong and full of energy, speaks good Chinese and is a really
easy-going guy,” said a Chinese friend. “He always wears a hat over his shaven
head. I believe he has several consultancy jobs.”
Chinese officials said there were questions about his internet-based company,
WorldNEXUS. It has provided corporate communications and website design to
Chinese firms seeking customers in English-speaking markets, of which the
United States is the biggest.
WorldNEXUS is not registered to conduct business in Shenzhen and officials at
the city’s commercial administration bureau said this raised potential problems
with issues of tax and compliance by its customers.
The company’s website promises “increased communication efficiency” to clients
and lists exporters of electronics and machine parts among its contracts. It
lists an office address in the west of the city but no such building could be
located.
Contacted by The Sunday Times last week, Ndesandjo said: “Thanks for your
interest. However, I am not giving interviews at this time.” Ndesandjo told a
Chinese businessman that WorldNEXUS was not trading, saying that he hoped to
“restart the business next year” and adding that the website was “out of date”.
Any family connection between the presidential contender and the flood of
Chinese imports that are blamed by many Americans for destroying jobs could be
politically embarrassing. Obama takes a populist position on trade with China,
calling in December for a ban on toys from the country until safety checks were
introduced.
Although the kinship between the two men is bound to cause a sensation in
China - as in their father’s native Kenya, no distinction is drawn between full
and half brothers - they do not appear to be close.
Ndesandjo, who has degrees from Brown University, a masters in physics from
Stanford and an MBA from Emory, does not share Obama’s emotional view of his
roots.
Obama painted a disappointed picture of his half-brother in his 1995 memoir,
Dreams from My Father. At a rather tense lunch, Obama quoted “Mark” - his
family name is not given in the book - as saying Kenya was “just another poor
African country” to which he felt little attachment.
Obama wrote that on parting, “we exchanged addresses and promised to write,
with a dishonesty that made my heart ache”.
Two decades after that encounter, the extended Obama family is bound to come
under scrutiny as the presidential election nears.
Copyright (C) The Sunday Times, 2008