She hired a butler for husband John to make him sandwiches and attend to his other needs. Like providing a writing surface.
Posted on 10/21/2004 2:21:30 AM PDT by j. earl carter
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story...
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004 12:13 p.m. EST Teresa Heinz Kerry: I'm an 'African American'
First lady wannabe Teresa Heinz Kerry sometimes describes herself as an "African American," even though she grew up amidst segregated privilege in colonial Mozambique.
"My roots are African," she told a reporter in 1995. "The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African."
Throughout the 1990s, Heinz Kerry referred to herself as "African American," the Baltimore Sun revealed on Tuesday. And when her use of the term set off a firestorm of controversy in 1993, she defended the claim.
"African-hyphen-American belongs to blacks," Heinz Kerry's spokesman told reporters, insisting that it was proper for his boss to call herself African American as long as no hyphen was used or intended.
The one-time Republican's depiction of herself as African rankles some who knew Heinz Kerry in the days when her father ran a medical clinic in Mozambique.
Some say the wealthy "African American" has snubbed blacks in her homeland, because she has done next to nothing with her vast Heinz Foods fortune to improve living conditions there.
"We are proud she is a daughter of the land," Neo Simbine, 75, a retired black nurse who worked with Heinz Kerry's father, told the Sun. "But you have to live what you say. If she really loves Mozambique and has lots of money, why doesn't she build us a hospital?"
Heinz Kerry's fortune is equal to nearly a quarter of Mozambique's annual Gross Domestic Product.
But aside from a contribution to her homeland's Save the Children Fund, the woman who repeatedly invokes her Mozambican roots has limited her generosity.
A spokeswoman for the Heinz Foundation said the prospective first lady would give more if she were more confident the money would be managed properly.
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Conservative Columnist Says School Owes White 'African-American' Student an Apology
by Jim Brown and Jenni Parker January 30, 2004
(AgapePress) - A white high school student and native of South Africa has been excluded from consideration for a Nebraska school's "Distinguished African-American Student Award" because he is not black. Moreover, he has been suspended for actions the school alleges were "offensive" to black students.
Trevor Richards, a junior at Omaha's Westside High School who was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, was recently suspended along with two friends for distributing posters urging support for Richards as next year's "Distinguished African-American Student."
That award has for eight years been given on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to a senior selected by teachers. On that day this year, the three boys decided to initiate their campaign by plastering the school with 150 flyers bearing Trevor's smiling picture and a message soliciting votes for him for the award.
The school suspended Trevor and his friends for their unauthorized actions. And one day after the three boys' suspension, another student who had begun gathering signatures for a petition protesting the boys' punishment was also booted from classes.
One of the boys described the intent behind the posters as an attempt at satire on the term "African-American." While the definition of the term denotes an American of African descent, popular usage in the United States generally connotes black African descent. In any event, some conservatives have come to view the Westside incident as a test case for the abolition of race-based terminology as well as race-based awards.
But while Westside's principal John Crook insists the posters Richards and his friends handed out were racially offensive, conservative columnist David Huntwork says school officials reacted too harshly to something that was "not a very malicious act whatsoever."
Huntwork asserts the posters contained no hateful images and were really designed and distributed strictly to make a point. "It was meant to just point out the ridiculousness of race-based awards and how divisive these things are," he says, "and frankly it was very clever."
The columnist feels Westside owes Richards and his friends an apology. He says the school officials' reaction to the incident "shows how entrenched this whole multiculturalism-diversity-political correctness ideology and philosophy [is and how it] has taken over in the schools."
Huntwork is calling on the Nebraska high school to rescind its punishment. "I think it's amazing," he adds, "that there have been absolutely no apologies to these students, certainly no clearing of their academic records for this, and no recognition that [the school officials] overreacted."
Trevor Richards' mother Karen recently told American Family Radio News that while her family is considering legal action against the school, she cannot wait for the controversy to die down.
She also had black servants...
Does she remember the 'servants'?
I say, Send her BACK!
[My roots are African,. . ."The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African."]
It would appear that she does not remember them. . .
She hired a butler for husband John to make him sandwiches and attend to his other needs. Like providing a writing surface.
"African-American" is a euphemism for "black," which is a euphemism for "colored," which is a euphemism for "Negro."
In actuality, she is MORE African-American than Sharpton or J Jackson...maybe she can get an 8A Program or partake in Affirmative Action.....
Apartheid-American would be more fitting.
I would like to know when she was 'home' last.
I just wish African Americans and African-Americans would decide whether they want to be Africans or Americans.
Sounds like THK was a typical plantation owner.
Heinz is a (AAINO) and deep down in side hates blacks. She just trys to be nice and nuturing to cover her covert racism. Heinz do you live near blacks, associate daily, invite them for supper and attend church with them other than for political purposes? I think not! Ms Mamma T, now or never will possess the pride , courage and fortitude to consider your self PC(AA)Black American. Heinz is as phony and fruity as her gigilo metrosexual idiot hisband. Bush/Cheney 2004
She IS an African-American, by definition. More so than most who come under that term, as she was in fact born in Africa.
Looks like the American euphemism industry had better find a new form of words.
That is an impressive picture. Wish Drudge would show that one. . .
This just goes to show the RIDICULOUS extreme of politically correct language and the logical fallacies inherent in its use. As the least politically-correct person I know says -- "the double-a in NAACP don't stand for African-American."
I loved her remark that she didn't send money to Mozambique because it wouldn't be used properly. Is she saying black africans just can't deal with money?
What a snob, what a racist.
Acutally I do remember picture; still get the same thought of Kerry's expectations from others.
Honey, Please SERVE ME by keeping your MOUTH CLOSED!
/sarcasm off
The NYTimes published this photo in their story about Kerry's butler..... paid for by Teresa of course.
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