March 12, 2004
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira Heinz Kerry
At the beginning of 2004, I dramatically switched the focus of this weblog. Before I had written about anything and everything, from the ridiculous to the sublime. I discussed politics quite a bit. There was even a Bush-Cheney 04 banner on the site.
I decided to change because the purpose of the website to begin with was ministry oriented. The articles began to focus on missions and Brazil. I have never looked back.
This article may be seen by some as breaking the rule, because it talks about a political figure. Yet it has to do with Portuguese speaking people, and particularly with the country of Mozambique--one of the chief targets for Brazilian missionaries.
The subject of this entry is Teresa Heinz Kerry. The name in the title is her full name. She was born in Mozambique to Portuguese parents.
Much has been made of her African roots. I am here to tell you that she is about as African as George Bush. According to a London Times article her parents were wealthy Portuguese expatriates. She lived in Mozambique in a time when it was completely under the rule of the Portuguese. Native Mozambicans were not even allowed to have their own businesses. In that environment, she was definitely a child of privilege.
The people of Mozambique struggled long and hard to throw off the bonds of Portuguese colonization. My question is, where was Maria Teresa during this time? Much is made of her marching in protest of apartheid in South Africa (truly a noble cause), but what about her native Mozambique? If I had a chance to talk to her, I would like to ask her that question. I might be surprised by the answer, but I doubt it.
Click here for a quick outline of the history of Mozambique.
Posted by Andrew on March 12, 2004 7:52 PM.
Comments
Posted by: Don at July 28, 2004 7:52 PM
Agree with Don ... her speech at the DNC last night did not ring true.
I plan to search for proof that she marched in 1950 against Apartheid in South Africa.
If I uncover anything in my research, I will post to this site.
Posted by: Carol at July 29, 2004 12:06 AM
Have you seen this from today's wire?:
Teresa Heinz-Kerry Launches Five-Language Tirade
Reuters| 8/11/2004 | Matt Myford
Teresa Heinz-Kerry gave reporters an earful Thursday, telling a Wendy’s cook to “go to hell” in five different languages. During a campaign stop in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, Heniz- Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, ordered a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger. Campaign aides say the burger was “soggy” and “lacked sufficient mayonnaise.”
Ms. Heinz-Kerry took two bites, threw the burger down on her tray, and “stormed up to the register” with “a look that could’ve burned a hole in the ozone layer.”
She immediately called out the cook, Casimir Budzinski, and proceeded to call him “very nasty words in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian.”
This latest Teresa tirade comes less than two weeks after her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, where she addressed confused onlookers in the aforementioned five languages.
“Ol’ Cas emigrated from Poland about a month ago, so it was all Greek to him,” said an anonymous Wendy’s spokesman. Mr. Budzinski apparently knows limited English: mainly the basic condiments and some rudimentary kitchen commands, including “Hurry the hell up...this friggin’ car’s been at the drive-thru window for ten minutes!”
The trip turned out to be a disaster for the Kerry/Edwards ticket. Mr. Kerry, who has a growing reputation as a flip-flopper, “took about a half-hour to decide whether or not he wanted mustard on his burger” and consequently “turned everybody behind him in line into Bush supporters,” Kerry campaign aides said.
Posted by: Republicans for Truth at September 23, 2004 1:05 PM
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Heinz-Kerry protesting against apartheid in South Africa??
Doubtful - as a student at Wits University in Johannesburg, in them days you would have been locked up for doing that whether or not you were black OR white...
Who is she trying to kid??