Posted on 05/14/2004 8:27:10 AM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Thursday that terrorists today are driven by the same hatred that inspired Klansmen to bomb a church in 1963 in her hometown of Birmingham, Ala.
President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser spoke to about 10,000 people — including a small group of protesters — at Vanderbilt University's Senior Class Day.
The bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four girls, including her friend, 11-year-old Denise McNair, and was meant to instill fear, Rice said.
"Those terrorists failed because of the poverty of their visions — a vision of hate, inequality. ... And they failed because of the courage and sacrifice of all who suffered and struggled for civil rights."
Today, many express doubts about prospects for freedom in the Middle East, much as they once did about Russia, Africa and the American South, Rice said.
She urged students to avoid the mistake of thinking some people do not "share your desire to live freely."
Some Vanderbilt students and faculty had signed a petition to protest Rice's selection for an award. The petition said the award amounted to a university endorsement of Rice's role in the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and described her as a "person who repeatedly misrepresented the truth to tragic effect."
Constance Gee, a professor and wife of Chancellor Gordon Gee, was among 200 people who signed the petition against Rice receiving the Chancellor's Medal.
Before Rice's speech, about 40 protesters gathered in the drizzle, some holding signs such as "Vandy Does Not Support Liars."
note how this AP story is more about the protestors than about Condi's statements....
tragic state of affairs in the media these days.
Chris, elite university spouse assclown ping...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1135484/posts
E. Gordon Geek can't tell the difference between a tie and a victory, so who gives a rat's ass what he or his wife think?
vandy is a very liberal elitist place of brain washing
Thanks for the e-mail addresses.
I am visiting in Nashville, attended the speech (which was AWESOME), and met the Chancellor and his wife. It was his idea to create this new award and to make Condi the first recipient. I am told that he is a conservative, whereas his wife is quite the liberal. So send him letters of support . . . and condolence. Save your flames for Constance, but they will do no good; she is hard-core leftist.
Well, it really isn't, but it's a great deal more tilted the protestors' way than the story that appeared in AP member The Tennessean's morning editions. In fact, it's obvious that the AP didn't like the Tennessean story and wrote its own, contrary to the usual practice of the AP of picking up members' stories.
Had not Chancellor Gee's wife provided the press with the craven irony they lusted for, the protestors' side of things would have been greatly diminished. And the local fraudcast network TV affiliates openly lamented the fact that the protestors were not allowed to set up a giant PA sound system so they could attempt to drown out Condi.
A letter writer to The Tennessean this morning pointed up the hypocrisy of the protestors in noting that Al Franken spoke at Vandy last year and none of the protestors seemed too concerned about his hard-left political speech.
Michael
Like other elitist fortunes,for example the Forbes family,as in JohnForbes Kerry,whose family fortune was made in the Opium trade,Vandy was founded from money made by ruthless Capitalism.
Re#8 No surprise there. Most are. Thankfully, more and more students are starting to see the light...
Senator Byrd responds, "Hey, I resemble that!"
Wow, sounds like the home attendance at a Vandy football game. Bigtime.
MM
Do they have any evidence to support their contention, or are they just pi$$ed because Condoleeza Rice is the most powerful black woman in the US and she doesn't share their views?
Rice's comments are also fitting for the initial Klansmen who were formed as a terrorist insurgent organization in the post-Civil War south.
I don't understand that kind of relationship. It's like Mary Maitlin and James Carville. Unless that's all just pretense to help their careers, how could you be married to someone who holds a worldview diametrically opposed to your own?
Absolutely correct. I would like to see one of the talking heads ask Senator Byrd to respond to the parallel between Klan activities and Islamic terrorism. Fat chance of that ever happening.
Gordon Gee is the good guy. His wife is the one on drugs.
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