GERORGE E. CURRY: Condoleezza Rice Misfires (George Curry really, really doesn't like Condi Rice)

The Chicago Defender ^ | May 17, 2005 | George Curry

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GERORGE E. CURRY: Condoleezza Rice Misfires

by George E. Curry May 17, 2005

Few things are as repulsive as Black conservatives trying to advance the Republican agenda by mischaracterizing the Civil Rights Movement or distorting history. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice provided a textbook example of this during a recent appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

When asked her thoughts on gun control, Rice replied: “Well, Larry, I come out of a – my personal experiences in which in Birmingham, Ala., my father and his friends defended our community in 1962 and 1963 against White nightriders by going to the head of the community, the head of the cul-de-sac, and sitting there armed. And so I’m very concerned about any abridgement of the Second Amendment…”

Moments later, she added: “…We have to be very careful when we start abridging rights that our Founding Fathers thought very important. And on this one, I think that they understood that there might be circumstances that people like my father experienced in Birmingham, Ala., when, in fact, the police weren’t going to protect you.”

This expert on Soviet history obviously hasn’t studied enough American history. There is no evidence that the Founding Fathers – or the Fondling Fathers, as I like to call some of them – were in the least bit worried about African-Americans being able to protect themselves against White supremacists. In fact, half of them owned slaves. So did nine U.S. presidents. To brush up on her American history, Rice should read the expert witness testimony submitted by Eric Foner, then-president of the American Historical Association, in connection with the University of Michigan’s defense of its affirmative action programs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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“Slaves, of course, experienced the institution of politics and law quite differently from white Americans,” wrote Foner, a history professor at Columbia University. “Before the law, slaves were property who had virtually no legal rights. They could be bought, sold, leased, and seized to satisfy an owner’s debt, their family ties had no legal standing, and they could not leave the plantation or hold meetings without the permission of their owner.” Given the treatment of African-Americans, it is incredulous to assert, as Rice does, that the Founding Fathers were even remotely concerned about allowing Blacks to protect themselves.

This is not the first time Rice has distorted facts for political gain.

Speaking at the 2000 Republican convention, Rice praised her father as “the first Republican I knew.” She declared, “Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.” What Rice forgot was the truth: political parties don’t register voters in Alabama. Voters are added to the voting rolls by registrars. A profile of Rice written by Dale Russakoff, a reporter for the Washington Post and native of Birmingham, was even more telling. After a White registrar asked Rice’s father a trick question to keep him from registering, according to Russakoff: “Rice says her father later learned of a Republican functionary in the registrar’s office who would register blacks secretly, as long as they registered Republicans – not the expansive grant of suffrage suggested in her speech.”

Rice’s exploitation of the Civil Rights Movement is even more notable because her middle-class parents, by her own admission, were not active in the movement. Her father, John Rice, was a minister and her mother, Angelena, was a school teacher.

The Washington Post profile revealed, “On both sides of her family, Condi Rice is descended from white slave owners as well as black slaves; and the slaves were mostly ‘house slaves,’ as opposed to ‘field slaves,’ according to Connie Rice [Condoleezza’s cousin].”

Many middle-class Blacks waited for working class African-Americans to bring down barriers that would especially benefit better educated African-Americans.

“Condi Rice says her father embraced [the movement’s] goals, but not its means,” the profile of her explained. “’My father was not a march-in-the-street preacher,’ she says. He strenuously opposed the tactic that ultimately broke white business resistance to ending segregation in stores downtown – recruiting children to march into police commissioner Bull Connor’s phalanx of officers, police dogs and fire hoses, and overflow the jails. ‘He saw no reason to put children at risk,’ Rice says. ‘He would never put his own children at risk.’” But others did. And their courage should not be politically exploited by those who stood on the sidelines and refused to take similar risks.

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Freepers, this was a HIDEOUS article from the Chicago defender. Fortunately, THEY have a message board. Aside from his bias against the right to keep and bear arms (hey, he's in Chicago, Gungrabber Central), he can't seem to carry a logical argument against what Dr. Rice was trying to say: that the Constitution provides protections for all of us, even though the Framers didn't intend to protect people who looked like Dr. Rice.

Then this hideous billingsgate meanders into a personal attack on her deceased mother and father. That is the best Curry can do.

Okay Freeps. It's SECOND AMENDMENT TIME!!!!!

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Chris

[Ramonan]

What a self-important,libelous prig this guy is!

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Few things are as repulsive as Black conservatives trying to advance the Republican agenda by mischaracterizing the Civil Rights Movement or distorting history. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice provided a textbook example of this during a recent appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

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What he meant was: "Few things are as repulsive as Black conservatives." The rest is just filler.

[ARCADIA]

Nothing like the mindless rants of a pure unadulterated racism.

[Uncle Hal]

Nothing is as repulsive as a black liberal (I assume he is) dissing a black conservative.

[section9]

The guy is a hater, period. He can't carry an anti RKBA argument against the quite logical pro-RKBA argument that Rice gave on the King show. So what does he do? The little intellectual hubcap thief insults her family. Shmuck.

I say let's sick Ted Nugent on this guy.

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Chris

[TheDon]

Gee, George and AlQ critizing Condi at the same time. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

[TheDon]

George is just another racist, who can't handle powerful women.

[wideawake]

This article is simply dumb.

Of course the Founding fathers were not worrying about blacks in Birmingham in the 1960s being unarmed.

What they were worried about were American citizens being caught unarmed and unable to defend themselves.

And Secretary Rice made the point that her folks were American citizens caught in a situation where, if they had no weapons, they would have been at the tender mercies of a terrorist organization.

This guy completely missed the point of her argument.

[section9]

Agreed. Que revolto!

I mean, he even criticizes Rice's dad for getting registered in secret by a Pubbie functionary when the Klan Krowd wouldn't let him register as a Donk.

Jesus. These guys are really drinking the Hillary Kool-Aid.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[glorgau]

The key point the guy misses is that the black citizens didn't get full rights until they exercised their right of self-defense by being armed. Gun control laws were first put in place to keep blacks from exercising their rights as citizens.

[pogo101]

It's hilarious how this, uh, "writer" keeps changing the subject. Condi mentions the (general, non-race-restricted) right to keep and bear arms as something important to the Founders because that right assured self-protection. Idiot writer responds, first, with an irrelevant slam at the founders as "fondlers," then attempts to assert that the issue is one of race, THEN pirouettes into assaulting them as horrific racists. Scuse me?

Later, when Condi is talking about why she's Republican, and she mentions that the Democrats around whom she grew up -- who ran Alabama -- would not register her father to vote, this moron writer says A HA! Political parties don't register voters! I WIN!, which is simply silly. To get a position in Alabama as a voter-registration worker in that state at that time, you'd have to have been a white Democrat, and moron-writer knows this full well.

[section9]

The mark of the intellectual three-card monte dealer is the dodge from one subject to the next. We at Americans For Dr. Rice will presently frost this guy a new a$$.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[6SJ7]

The writer also conveniently forgets many early 'gun control' laws were indeed written to prevent blacks from owning firearms.

[Antonello]

This guy completely missed the point of her argument.

He didn't miss it. He deliberately misconstrued it into something that fit his argument. In other words, he's a deceitful liar.

[sgtbono2002]

Does the fact that the Founding fathers werent thinking about blacks protecting themselves with guns mean they dont have that right today? According to this dick it does.

[Tallguy]

Does George Curry think that Condi Rice's statement is automatically limited to "The Black Experience" just because she happens to be black. Clearly she's speaking as an unhyphenated American. She's Secretary of State fer cryin' out loud.

[evolved_rage]

The Washington Post profile revealed, “On both sides of her family, Condi Rice is descended from white slave owners as well as black slaves; and the slaves were mostly ‘house slaves,’ as opposed to ‘field slaves,’ according to Connie Rice [Condoleezza’s cousin].”

This POS article is HIDEOUS on so many levels...

[section9]

Please don't get me started on cousin Connie. What a backstabber. Right after Condi's 9/11 testimony, Connie basically came out and called Condi a liar.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[mhking]

George Curry's background is one of attacking black conservatives. He was the editor of Emerge and not only approved but promoted the issue of that magazine with Clarence Thomas depicted as a lawn jockey.

This kind of vitriol from his is no surprise, given his background.

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