It’s official. I am the only person in America who didn’t love theCondoleezza Rice RNC speech.
no you are not alone.
Indeed, Rice’s address on the third day of the Republican National Convention Wednesday received a rapturous reception from the assembled delegates, and from pundits. In fact, but for some grousing about a bit of lipstick on her teeth, I’ve heard nothing but praise for the former secretary of state’s presentation.
On the upside, the speech was beautifully written and well delivered (even if the opening lines were a painful reminder of the part Rice played in an administration that missed the blatant signals preceding the 9/11 terror attacks — I think the presidential daily brief was titled, “Bin Laden Determined To Attack the United States?..”) But it was on the subjects of race, segregation, and the new favorite Republican buzzwords: “envy” and “grievance,” that Rice’s words truly left me cold.
you and millions of others took umbrage to her verbiage born of right wing segregationist and she merely carried the water for oppressors who would oppress her if she had not joined their ranks
but are they still doing it with the war on women?
she has two strikes she is a woman and Black, and obviously apathetic to the plight of her race and gender.
Toward the end of her speech, Rice told the crowd, and the nation: “on a personal note – a little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham – the most segregated big city in America — her parents can’t take her to a movie theater or a restaurant – but they make her believe that even though she can’t have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter — she can be president of the United States and she becomes the Secretary of State.”
Her references to America’s diversity and historic promise certainly resonated inside the Tampa Bay Forum, and she received thunderous applause from the crowd.
Though I was there as an observer, not a participant, I found myself incredibly uncomfortable, standing amid that roaring, overwhelmingly white crowd, as they reveled in hearing a black woman, whose childhood friend was one of the four young girls killed in the infamous firebombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, seem to excuse historic wrongs to further the unending conservative mission of patting America on the back.
not saying she wasn't qualified but why would a notoriously racist, chauvinist, women haters club would pick, the little girl from Jim Crow Birmingham? was there some reaching out by decorating their "token pole?"
