NTDTV: President Obamas Half-Brother Talks about Life in China

Since NTDTV's official YouTube Channel got taken down for some weird reason, I thought it would be a good time to upload some of their noteworthy videos again and it's also to remind you guys that you can actually still find ALL their programming on their website: http://english.ntdtv.com - So just cause their YouTube Channel is gone, doesn't mean they are gone - go visit their website, they have 24 hour programming with live streaming.

Meet Mark Ndesandjo... musician, novelist - and half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama.

After the September 11th attacks in the U.S. when he lost his job and focus, Ndesandjo built an unlikely life for himself in the Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen.

[Mark Ndesandjo, Half-Brother of U.S. President Barack Obama]:
"Emotionally I needed to be in someplace new, someplace where I could re-evaluate myself and to start from scratch."

Besides his artistic pursuits and charity work teaching the piano to Chinese orphans, Ndesandjo runs several businesses including a BBQ restaurant, popular for its beer and hearty cuisine.

Some of his Chinese staff said it was unbelievable to have the president's brother as their boss.

"I felt great surprise and a little excited. But it's my job and I'll continue to do it as normal."

Other Shenzhen residents hoped for improved Sino-U.S. relations with an Obama sibling now living in China.

[Mr. Li, Shenzhen Resident]:
"Obama's brother coming and living in China is a pleasant surprise to us. We welcome him. I think it is very important and essential that China and the United States mutually understand each other."

Once publicity-shy, Ndesandjo broke his media silence to launch a novel, which draws on painful memories of his late Kenyan father - Barack Obama Senior - beating his mother.

[Mark Ndesandjo, Half-Brother of U.S. President Barack Obama]:
"And I remember times in my house when I would hear the screams and I would hear my mother, my mother's pain."

He spoke little of his relationship with his famous brother, who has the same father but a different mother, but said the successful presidential campaign last year had helped heal the family's wounds.

[Mark Ndesandjo, Half-Brother of U.S. President Barack Obama]:
"It was Barack who supported me and inspired me."

While Ndesandjo wouldn't talk politics, he spoke fondly of his young Chinese wife and said America could learn from China's deep-rooted family values.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• NTDTV
• President
• Obamas
• Half-Brother
• Talks
• about
• Life
• in
• China

[Supenmanu]

NTDTV IS BACK! (so go check it out cause that also means i am not gonna upload any of their videos no more)

[MrMonkey868686]

Look this family really knows how to mix.

[olin777]

Awesome! It's back! Great work, thanks.

[Alphonzen]

Oh crap, one of the tenents is 'truthfulness'- you won't get any of that from the chinese government

[Alphonzen]

Whats wrong with falun gong, mr Hu Jintao

The three central tenets of the Falun Gong system, as articulated by founder Li Hongzhi, are 'Truthfulness' (眞), 'Compassion' (善), and 'Forbearance' (忍).

[middlelamb]

What a good point!

Hello from Romania. A post comunist country. :)

[rainbowcolorducky]

if it is, great!!! Falun Gong practitioners are the most reliable and truthful people!

[Supenmanu]

Yes... many employees at NTDTV do practice Falun Gong... so what? What are you trying to get at?

See... i am German and in the past i heard many Nazis attacking basically any given media as being owned by Jews... But i don't get what they are trying to get at? Suppose it is owned by Jews, so what? Maybe it's? also owned by Christians, or atheists or blacks or whatever... so what?

[chinesekmt]

NTDTV is a channel sponsored and set up by falun gong practitioners. I bet this female reporter is also a falun gong member.

[rainbowcolorducky]

Amazing!!! president's brother is in NTDTV broadcast. Ntdtv is the only great and reliable channel!