WASHINGTON (Oct. 16)
Condoleezza Rice Gets Candid: The former Secretary of State Talks about Race & Relationships
Plus: Is 'Compassionate Conservatism' Dead? -- Partisans on both the left and the right are "too easily driven to calling each other racists," says Condoleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black woman in U.S. history.
"There is nothing that is a bigger hot button than to question somebody's motives and to call it racist, and unfortunately people do it on both sides," she says.
In a wide-ranging interview with AOL News on a day filled with speeches and TV appearances to promote her new book, Rice spoke candidly about the misconceptions and assumptions about herself and the black community...
http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/co...
"There is nothing that is a bigger hot button than to question somebody's motives and to call it racist, and unfortunately people do it on both sides," she says.
In a wide-ranging interview with AOL News on a day filled with speeches and TV appearances to promote her new book, Rice spoke candidly about the misconceptions and assumptions about herself and the black community...
http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/co...
Very, very interesting Sister Jen.
"She also said she is unconcerned by liberal critics in the black community who called her and Colin Powell 'house Negroes' for working in the Republican Bush administration.
'I really don't care,' Rice said. 'I don't need anybody to tell me how to be black. We don't really need arguments about what it is to be authentically black. That is nothing but a tool for a silly conversation.'
Rice said she is more concerned about 'the witches' brew of race and poverty' that is holding back a generation of minority students. Since leaving Washington, she has devoted herself to K-12 education when not teaching business students at Stanford."
This definitely one I need to read!