{"id":130488,"date":"2015-07-01T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=130488"},"modified":"2015-07-01T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:26:57","slug":"obamas-brother-sells-revealing-handwritten-letter-from-1995-in-which-president-to-be-reveals-political-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/obamas-brother-sells-revealing-handwritten-letter-from-1995-in-which-president-to-be-reveals-political-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s brother sells revealing handwritten letter from 1995 in which president-to-be reveals political ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Obama’s half-brother has sold a handwritten letter the president sent him 20 years ago – revealing he planned to venture into politics to tackle ‘some serious issues blacks face here’.<\/p>\n
It is the third personal note Malik Abongo ‘Roy’ Obama has auctioned in recent years.<\/p>\n
But this, dated 23 July 1995, is perhaps the most revealing about the president-to-be’s political ambitions.<\/p>\n
‘Some colleagues of mine here have talked me into running for the Illinois State Senate (like being an MP for a province),’ Obama, then a 33-year-old lawyer in Chicago, wrote to his paternal brother in Kenya.<\/p>\n
‘I have agreed, since I have an interest in politics to deal with some serious issues blacks face here.’<\/p>\n