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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama's transgendered ex-nanny an outcast
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iUY2F_TanmYwO175ix_ExNLFcNow?docId=c65ce20c5a1e47b088fc32e488049345Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets.
Evie, who was born a man but believes she is really a woman, has endured a lifetime of taunts and beatings because of her identity. She describes how soldiers once shaved her long, black hair to the scalp and smashed out glowing cigarettes onto her hands and arms.
Evie, who was born a man but believes she is really a woman, has endured a lifetime of taunts and beatings because of her identity. She describes how soldiers once shaved her long, black hair to the scalp and smashed out glowing cigarettes onto her hands and arms.
Teased and bullied, she dropped out of school after the third grade and decided to learn how to cook.
As it turned out, she was pretty good at it, making her way into the kitchens of several high-ranking officials by the time she was a teenager, she recalls with a smile and a wink. And so it was, at a cocktail party in 1969, that she met Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, who had arrived in the country two years earlier after marrying her second husband, Indonesian Lolo Soetoro.
Dunham was so impressed by Evie's beef steak and fried rice that she offered her a job in the family home. It didn't take long before Evie also was 8-year-old Barry's caretaker, playing with him and bringing him to and from school.
As it turned out, she was pretty good at it, making her way into the kitchens of several high-ranking officials by the time she was a teenager, she recalls with a smile and a wink. And so it was, at a cocktail party in 1969, that she met Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, who had arrived in the country two years earlier after marrying her second husband, Indonesian Lolo Soetoro.
Dunham was so impressed by Evie's beef steak and fried rice that she offered her a job in the family home. It didn't take long before Evie also was 8-year-old Barry's caretaker, playing with him and bringing him to and from school.
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Obama's transgendered ex-nanny an outcast (Original Post)
superpatriotman
Mar 2012
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I was sickened to read the comments to this story on Yahoo. Seriously, I know the RW are pigs, but,
lib_wit_it
Mar 2012
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And people wonder why Limbaugh has been so "successful" for all of these years?
bullwinkle428
Mar 2012
#4
Enrique
(27,461 posts)1. headline of the day
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)2. no one deserves a life like that
so sad
lib_wit_it
(2,222 posts)3. I was sickened to read the comments to this story on Yahoo. Seriously, I know the RW are pigs, but,
I was shocked and appalled by the hateful, immature reactions they felt the need to share with the world. What the hall is wrong with these people??!! http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-obamas-transgender-ex-nanny-outcast-070907242.html
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)4. And people wonder why Limbaugh has been so "successful" for all of these years?
Sub-human cretins need some kind of overlord to look up to.