Hold The Presses: C.Rice Talks Race

[Tanksleyd]

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080328/FOREIGN/746301768/1001

In essence she calls the still existent racism a national "Birth Defect". Seems to me she is trying to give Obama a helping hand. Also I first caught this story in the CONSERVATIVE newspaper The Washington Times.

[Battle]

Well...well...the mindless automaton can actually speak!


An excerpt from the article...

"Black Americans were a founding population," she said. "Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That's not a very pretty reality of our founding."

As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, "descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that."

[Mastrmynd]

Condy said that?
wow.
well...i wonder what she's gonna do when bush starts saying, "it was all mrs. rice's fault. we got the intel from her..and her alone."

[DamonO]

Condoleezza Rice may be a very intelligent woman, but she was a lousy National Security Adviser, and an extremely unimpressive Secretary of State.

Yes, I said it.

[karaszero]

I don't think anybody is really paying attention to her, I don't see her as being credible enough to say ANYTHING about race in this country after the way she handled herself before/during/after Hurricane Katrina

[Mastrmynd]

oh yeah...
she's shot her foot and mouf off.
she's just...there....fillin' the status quo in teh white house.

[Catch22]

It's all about perceptions, image and legacy.  Since this administration is ending she, and many others, will try to distance themselves from the policies and attitudes of this failed administration in hopes that history casts a favorable eye on their time in the White House.  She should have done like Colin Powell and got out while the getting was good.  What she says is very true, but with her actions (shopping for shoes, etc.) post-Katrina her statements don't mean much to me.

[Mastrmynd]

n***a, AIR FORCE ONES were on sale!
muh'f***in' AIR FORCE ONES!!
you think a lil' flood in nawlin's is gonna make her miss a SHOE SALE of this MAGNITUDE??

[Catch22]

n***a, AIR FORCE ONES were on sale!
muh'f***in' AIR FORCE ONES!!
you think a lil' flood in nawlin's is gonna make her miss a SHOE SALE of this MAGNITUDE??

LOL

I hear ya...but you know what's sad...even the Shoe Models at Magic City in Atlanta started a Katrina Fund.  We got Shoe Models more in touch with the people of the country than the Secretary of State and her guitar playing boss.

[Redjack]

whatev.

I can't wait to see the back of Ms. Rice. She has made a disgraceful show in her time in the spotlight and I can't even catalogue the ways I am ashamed of her.

She states the obvious and gets press for it?

Bite me, Condie. How about all those unnecessarily dead and maimed soldiers? Liar. War profiteer.

She's as bad as the rest of those criminals with none of their excuses. She should know better.

[Vic Vega]

n***a, AIR FORCE ONES were on sale!
muh'f***in' AIR FORCE ONES!!
you think a lil' flood in nawlin's is gonna make her miss a SHOE SALE of this MAGNITUDE??

BAHAHAHA!!!

The effed up part is that this was more than likely her actual mindset at the time. 

Stephon Marbury goes to New Orleans and breaks down crying.

The President's people go down there (C. Rice included )and pretty much collectively shrug their shoulders.

[Mastrmynd]

thank you...thank you...