Vietnamese-American Newspapers Savage Kerry

Various Vietnamese American Newspapers | 2/15/2004 | Self

[angkor]

Just an FYI that the local Vietnamese-American newspapers in Northern Virginia are running front page coverage of Kerry's VVAW activities.

Sorry my translation capabilities are so feeble, otherwise I'd post some of the articles here (and none of the papers have web sites for electronic text to run through online translators).

Suffice it to say that the papers are quite critical of Kerry. One paper has two photos of Jane Fonda from her 1972 Hanoi trip on the section A2 jump. Two papers run the Newsmax.com Kerry/Fonda photo on the front page, above the fold.

If anyone would know about Kerry's alleged "atrocities against Vietnamese civilians", it would be the Vietnamese themselves, particularly those who came to America after 1975 (to wit, several million). And with family, friends, and acquaintances both here in the States and also back in Vietnam, the network is large enough to produce at least a rumor or two, perhaps even a validated account that innocent civilians were killed and ravaged, as Kerry stated again and again in the 70's.

But that's not what happening. Instead, Kerry is being savaged and exposed in the Vietnamese-American press.

And he's being properly identified in print for what he really is: a "phan boi".

A traitor.

[jackbill]

I don't think Teresa Heinz has any Afrikaner ancestry--she is always described as the daughter of a Portuguese doctor.

I believe her father was a German doctor. The mother, I believe, was Portuguese.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't remember her surname but it is a typically Portuguese name...so I assume that's her father's name (that is, that her parents were married).

I haven't seen Afrikaans mentioned as one of the languages she speaks (or Dutch, for that matter), so I would guess she attended an English-language university in South Africa.

[dfwgator]

She went to South Africa for her university education but that doesn't make her an Afrikaner any more than having an office in Harlem makes Bill Clinton an African American.

She may not be an Afrikaaner, but getting schooled in South Africa during that period would be a tacit acknowledgement that she did indeed support Apartheid.

[Verginius Rufus]

If Teresa Heinz's Presidential-candidate husband were a Republican, she would not only be a supporter of Apartheid, but the inventor of it. Because Kerry's a Democrat, she gets a pass.

Not all whites in South Africa supported apartheid, and one or two of the universities actively opposed the system. Alan Paton, a white South African, made the outside world aware of the racial situation in South Africa in his Cry, the Beloved Country (published before fully-developed apartheid was imposed in 1948)...he was of British descent, not an Afrikaner.

The Afrikaners are mostly of Dutch descent, with some French Huguenot and German mixed in, and can trace their families back to the 17th century, as long ago as the First Families of Virginia can trace their presence in America. It was the Afrikaners, not all of the whites, who were the strongest supporters of apartheid. The Portuguese have been in Mozambique and Angola even longer, but I don't think Teresa's family was of long-time African residence.