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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Mrs. Heinz-Kerry was born and raised in Mozambique, way back when it was a Portuguese African colony. Splitting hairs but in a sense she could call herself an 'African-American", even though she is a descendant of Portuguese colonials. Unfortunately, it was The Wrong Thing To Say.
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In the context of her caring about black issues that was different. Also it was the African-American community she offended. Her spokesman at the time said it was OK because she didn't use a hyphen to which people countered that African American means one thing and one thing only, black Americans.
"Africa for the Africans, those at Home and abroad"-Marcus Garvey
Now "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" - her fortune has increased a great deal since then actually.
I don't care much enough about this woman to sit here talking shiznizzle about her but really that was a jackass comment to make just like the shoveit comment. And, again, the Democratic party knows this.
-Rudey