Condoleezza Rice: "Of Course" Blacks Have To Live With White's Racism (Which Is Why Blacks Hate Her)

“Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.”

This is sad, because the former Secretary Of State should be wise enough to know "enormous progress" still doesn't equate with a good life, when it consigns millions of blacks to an unwarranted poverty - while whites, because of their own scheming, hold 20 times our wealth. Such an attitude is, surely, a sign of some epic stupidity on her part.

If she keeps this up, we might have to buffalo her off the stage,...

Thomas Sowell: The Right Is Stupid And Late (On Race)

The Sowell of The Republican Party has a few choice words, for a GOP hoping to lure blacks, that aren't what they expected:

  "Recently former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice added her voice to those who have long been urging the Republican party to reach out to black voters. Not only is that long overdue, what is also long overdue is putting some time — and, above all, some serious thought — into how to go about doing it."

Trying not to mention blacks being on the Democrat's "plantation" might be a good place to start,….

 

Condi: How "Good Breeding" Can Lead To "Bad Culture"

"I think that my female ancestors probably suffered a lot. And, that I have to be very grateful, that they survived it. 

I've always thought that this is the kind of 'unhealed wound' in America that we have trouble talking about. What really happened during slavery. We have trouble talking about the scars of that. That's the unspoken, and the unfinished, business of race in America."

- former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on white men raping black women, in America

 

What's Wrong With The Right & What It Could Be Doing

Behind the "Big Tent" mask the Republicans are desperate to be noticed wearing, are groups who honestly think they don't see race, because they need that psychological cover as a license to thwart history. 

You see, if they don't honestly acknowledge what's happened to blacks, then A) they don't have to do anything substantial about it, and B) they can magnanimously imagine themselves as part of a different and more wholesome, and profitable, future.

The "GOP Hipster" Is a Pampered Babbling Sack of Horse Hockey

But, by directing their attention and ire so vehemently on blacks - and especially on this President and his policies - it's painfully obvious to everyone watching, the Republican Party is, culturally, still firmly stuck in America's rearview mirror. And with their image fading fast:

Endemic Corruption: The Ukraine Is Ex-Soviet, But What Excuse Do Black American Politicians Have?

Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, they're blacks of a different era - one the rest of us, now, only want a peek at on film, and not in our daily lives.

“You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free.” 

And yet, it's here. Dr. Ben Carson - and the adulation he receives from conservatives - could be replaced by Booker T. Washington without even squinting our eyes. American culture's that real. Right down to the Southern backdrop of strange fruit. 

That's because we're a country, with a character, and the sooner we start acting like it, the better. There is no escaping our history. The most we can hope is to learn from it.

None Of These Men Will Ever Be President

How the Republican Party thinks a traumatized and terrorized people - who've never had what they needed - were somehow going to collectively beat the odds, is a question I may not be equipped to answer because, frankly, I don't understand it. But then, I'm not willfully obtuse, as well. 

Unlike the Republican Party (and the other blacks momentarily still in it) I can not look my people in the face and not acknowledge their struggle as a moral one, or frame their plight as undeserving. When it comes to their concerns - vs. the major concerns of even "mainstream" America - theirs wins, hands down, every time. Partially because, as we've seen, freedom and justice for blacks has always had a profound influence on loosening the parameters limiting other's lives as well.

"Where [Mitt Romney] lost was on the question of, ‘Who cares about you?’”

Those slave ships left a lot in their wake. TMR has been calling for reparations and it's time that's on the table. But even more than that, it's the Republican Party that should be calling for a Truth & Reconciliation commission, not only in order to (cynically) assess if, why, and how money to blacks would be warranted and/or distributed, but also so we can get the story in the open and, finally, walk together as a nation.

It is worth noting that it was [Henry] Ford's picture that had pride of place in Hitler's study and not Heidegger's: the origins of nazism and the ideological motives inspiring it were not exclusively German.

The Republican Party freed the slaves.

Ted Nugent Loving Republican Tom Tancredo Getting Crushed in Colorado Governor’s Race

The Republican Party should see to it, as their civic duty, that ignorance on this particular subject will no longer be an excuse for anything.

How the civil rights movement changed black gun culture

Excluded, Then Dismissed, Then In Focus (And Pissed)

Only the Right can hear Condoleezza Rice's black ass say the Republican Party has to be more inclusive, and they come away saying yes, but the focus should be "particularly Latino and Asian immigrants." Somebody's missing, don't you think? But who could that be? Oh yes, there we are:

"'Viral Media' is all White People. Sometimes sites let black journalists write for them, but they never really feel included." 

 That's the first tweet from someone calling himself ExMediaMan, who, it's said, "has enough dirt to bury the entire Internet." 

Well, don't make any quick decisions on what to do with it, yet:

I think The Elephant's Graveyard is going to need it,…

ADDED:

Isn't it strange how, as soon as somebody white gets really, really mad, that's when they'll tell you what whites are actually doing to blacks? 

Like open discrimination?

But were colorblind, right kids? And there's no racism YOU can find,….

 

There's Stuff Whites Don't Mention In CPAC Brochures

Conservatives - wondering why others say they're racists - it's the company you keep:

"White nationalists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are planning to gather discreetly this evening at a steak house,…"

You can keep 'em:

And that goes double for Condi and Clarence, who're probably having dinner with them, too,...

John Wayne Wants To Rap (He Just Don't Know How)

“Condoleezza Rice suggests race is one of America’s birth defects. You just have to scratch the surface and it’s always there. The reality is that America is a very tribal place. In cities, in my experience, the black community lives here, the Chinese community lives here, the Wasp community lives here, the Italian community lives here, the Hispanic community lives here. They work together much more cohesively perhaps than in Britain, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day everyone goes back to their own community. They learn about the other communities by watching TV. American civic and institutional integration is way ahead of ours. Mayors, senators, judges, police chiefs, the president, are all from a variety of backgrounds. But I’d say the social integration is closer to where Britain was in the 1970s,...”

He Speaks - And Then Pauses - And Then He Speaks,...

I'm only posting these last three minutes of Paul Ryan's speech last night because, sadly, this was the best part. The best because it was almost over, but also because it was the only segment where he didn't pause unwarranted for mechanical applause, didn't deliver his lines as though he thought they were smarter than they actually were, and I didn't have to hear him constantly clearing his throat into the microphone. I don't know if the Democrats are going to do any better, speech-wise, but if not - after Chris Christie's lackluster performance the night before - we might have to say oratory is definitely becoming a lost art in this country.

Don't get me wrong - I didn't disagree with any of the sentiments Ryan advocated - but when I had to whince every time he said, "Mitt Romney and me," because, not only do I dislike the head of the ticket with a passion, but it's bad english, well, let's just say Glenn Reynolds (or the Democrats) should be hawking t-shirts that say "Apparently math ain't the ONLY thing that's hard!"

Susana Martinez saying, "Damn, I guess we ARE Republicans!" was funny - during that one line - and Condi did o-kay, which is weird (I know so-called "people of color" aren't the only ones capable of talking with style and vigor <--Yeah, I'm a Kennedy now) but the night for the most part was a bust, which I know people are going to claim is a result of my deep animosity for Romney, rather my long emersion in a culture that loves verbal dexterity, as well as the conservative's own election year blinders. Like Obama - who they seem to want to emulate in every way this year - they can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

Well, actually the Right *might* be able to: 

If I remember correctly, there's a certain "pig wearing lipstick" out there known for knocking 'em dead,...
 

"No Dear, You're Wrong,...Do Your Homework."

All We've Got To Do Is Stay On Point (And It's Guaranteed You'll Get Stabbed In The Eye)

"My friends and I have been talking about this all day. The only conclusion we could come up with is Hillary was set up by Obama supporters at State. Nothing else makes sense. Huh. Maybe the last guy wasn’t so dumb after all, picking a gal that spoke fluent Russian."

-- Eugene Volokh, with more on the "stupidity" issue - and that dumb button idea - for The Volokh Conspiracy.

The Clean-Up Woman

"We inherited a law enforcement mentality where you punished the crime after it happened, instead of trying to prevent the crime...

...We inherited,...the failed Camp David Accords, and as a result the Second Intifada. Yasser Arafat was in power, stealing people blind and working with terrorists,...

We inherited a Lebanon with Syrian forces there for 30 years. Now, Syrian forces are out. There is a democratic government in power -- yes, being challenged by Hezbollah -- but the prime minister has survived and they've elected a president. The Lebanese army is out in the country for the first time. And they are friendly to the United States.

...Saddam Hussein dragged the region into a war and lost over a million lives. It dragged the U.S. into war. He murdered his own people, terrorized his neighbors and sought weapons of mass destruction. Today? You have a multiethnic, multiconfessional democracy that isn't threatening its neighbors.

So, I just don't understand this argument that it is so much worse. I always say, 'as opposed to what?' Syrian forces in Lebanon and no democracy. Saddam Hussein in power, threatening his neighbors and us. The Taliban in Afghanistan. The Palestinians and Israelis in an open intifada. That was the better Middle East? And it wasn't as if politics wasn't going on -- it was just going on in radical mosques and the madrassas, whereas now it is going on in the open. And yes, once in a while the Hamases of the world will win, but frankly I'd rather have them out in electoral politics trying to explain how they will fix the sewer system than running the streets with their faces covered, being the glorious resistance.

Is it done? No. But we'd have never gotten on this different path without Iraq."

-- Condoleezza Rice, untying the rhetorical knots on real politiks that Democrats have used to bind American foreign policy - before she hands the mop and broom off to them, of course - in The Wall Street Journal.

Puttin' Beatin's On The Thetans

“You shouldn’t be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that’s what they’re born for.”

- L. Ron Hubbard, supposedly to his second wife, according to Investigative journalist Ian Halperin, author of “Hollywood Undercover,” his exposé of the cult

"I can tell you who shouldn’t be President - Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice and the Rev. Al Sharpton. They should not be allowed to run for office, they should be sweeping the office.”

- A Scientology recruiter, also from Ian Halperin

This is just getting better and better,...

She Is Black As Night - Owns A Vagina - And Experienced: Condoleezza Rice For President!

“I cannot believe that women all over this country are not up in arms over Oprah’s backing of Obama. For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a woman in the White House and Oprah backs the black MAN. She’s choosing her race over her gender.”

- austaz68, in a sexist (and racist) e-mail, found on the website of Oprah Winfrey

I guess the Democrat's battle against racism and sexism is over, huh? Yea - common sense lost - leaving a massive display of hypocrisy as the big winner.

Damn, I'm glad I'm not a Democrat anymore,...it's just stupidity on parade.