Posted on 07/08/2004 9:39:42 PM PDT by Soliton
Teresa Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique in 1938 and lived as a priveledged colonialist in a social system that used forced labor (government sanctioned slavery)until the revolution of 1960.
The Mozambique system was so bad during her life time that 250,000 blacks per year FLED TO SOUTH AFRICA to work in the gold mines.
She was sent off to college in South Africa when things got bad in Mozambique. Her father only left after everything he owned was siezed by the new revolutionary government.
It's all in this very long article.
Teresa has created various myths to insulate her from this horrible racist upbringing.
She should be asked at every turn, how many servants her family had and how were they paid.
Colonialism wasn't so peachy keen everywhere, esp. if dominated by the Spanish and Portuguese and yeah even the French.
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