Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I'm an African American'

Newsmax ^ | 2/24/03 | Newsmax

[the invisib1e hand]

i dunno. i just re-read my post, and I really don't see how it justifies your ill mannered reply. In fact, the example you use is nothing at all like the example I used. Perhaps I'm an ill-educated, name calling, bigot, or...well...I don't want to be rude. You figure it out.

[nopardons]

Try rereading it again. You were VERY rude, showed how ill educated you are by calling South Africans " Southies ",impugned white South Africans by stating that they are " pushing " Apartheid now, which is completely untrue, and now you're whining, because I gave it back to you. You figure it out......or better still, get someone to explain it all to you. :-)

[the invisib1e hand]

ok, let's start here:

showed how ill educated you are by calling South Africans " Southies ",

is it "ill-educated" to call someone who lives in the south of something a "Southie," or is it merely a slang term that pushes your buttons? (and by the way, do you have a problem with Irish people who live in South Boston? -- what, South Africaners are much better than them, right? And I'm the bigot?)

impugned white South Africans by stating that they are " pushing " Apartheid now,

a re-read is in order for you. I said that all south africans push apartheid ???, or did I invoke the image of a particular south african that pushes apartheid, merely for the sake of illustration?

There is no need for you to answer these questions. Thank you for offering yourself as further proof that the accuser is usually guilty. Do some remedial reading. Pick up a college level literature book. I think you've been living on sound-bytes and sensationalism a bit too long. Best wishes.

[nopardons]

Oh,I see, you just want to insult other and when corrected, insult some more. Okay, let's look at your stab at digging yourself out of the hole you dug, but just managing to dig yourself down deeper.

"Southie", is NOT what any one or nation is called, because they live in/come from an area south of something, or South Africa.In point of indisputable fact, "Southie" refers to a person/persons from an area of Boston, only. I have never seen written or heard someone from Georgia,Australia, South America.nor South Africa called a "Southie" by anyone but you. That alone, makes you appear ill educated; twice now.

No,I don't " have a problem with Southies"..do YOU? But they are lower class people, who fought enforced busing ( and they were right, I was on their side, when this was going on )and taken in context, with your implication ( your snide Apartheid comment )of racial bigotry, that furthered the appearance of your being a bigot and ill educated.

You left off any modifier......all, some, a few, etc., implying, therefore, that all South African whites were Apartheid loving bigots. Please get someone to help you.......you don't even understand what you write, let alone what I have written.

No, thank YOU, for proving that some people here will post about anything and everything,especially things they don't know much about,and only want to engage in flaming.

[raloxk]

This women is potentially more troublsome for Kerry than Hillary was for Bill

[martin_fierro]

Look what happened to this white kid when he claimed being an "African American."

[george wythe]

"Southie", is NOT what any one or nation is called, because they live in/come from an area south of something, or South Africa.In point of indisputable fact, "Southie" refers to a person/persons from an area of Boston, only. I have never seen written or heard someone from Georgia,Australia, South America.nor South Africa called a "Southie" by anyone but you. That alone, makes you appear ill educated; twice now.

I did not know what a "Southie" was until I read your post. Very interesting.

I'm too young to remember the start of forced bussing, so I was surprised to learn that even people in liberal-controlled Boston fought this ill-conceived policy.

[Clemenza]

I hope this spoiled brat is taken to task by the black community in America. In fact, I hope she repeats it....in a black church.

Reminds me of when Boutros Boutros Ghali, head of the UN at the time, gave a speech to the OAU stating that "I too am an African" (Mr. Ghali is a fair skinned Egyptian Copt). There was considerable uproar from the audience and Ghali never quite recovered his status with the African nations.

[Clemenza]

I'm too young to remember the start of forced bussing, so I was surprised to learn that even people in liberal-controlled Boston fought this ill-conceived policy.

Although opposed to bussing, I had little symphathy for the "Southies." For years, the citizens of South Boston enjoyed the benefits of socialism, through government jobs, housing projects and public works. They loved socialism when it benefitted them, but then got pissed when they had to share their government schools with the blacks in Roxbury.

[John_Galt518]

I wonder if Teresa knows her husband was rumored to be messing around with a non African female AP reporter.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I hope this spoiled brat is taken to task by the black community in America. In fact, I hope she repeats it....in a black church

The left wing Negros are the ones who insisted on being called African Americans to whitewash Negro, Black, Colored, and other terms claiming these were derisive. So they push for new terms that a white Teresa can legitimately claim. So how are Haitians, Jamaicans, blacks from South America properly cataloged as African Americans?