Posted on 05/17/2005 1:51:29 PM PDT by section9
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.
Obviously, George can't see the 2nd Amendment issue except through the prism of racism. And so, he misses Condi's point.
>>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.<<
What a self-important, self-verified idiot. This is a pure racist remark by him. Fact is, the founding fathers proved their intelligence and integrity by protecting the rights generically, regardless of race. Unlike him, race was not an issue. The issue was to protect the individuals right to protect himself from others that would do him harm, be he black against white, white against black, or girl against boy.
This guy is a real piece of work. It is amazing his voice is given any more prominence than the average letter to the editor.
It is sick. Condi is such a good role model for our young people.
I don't agree with her on everything- but I respect her. I hate to see the left smear her like this.
Just another pimp of the Race Industry tryng for press coverage!
Yeah, but one of the things that is MORE repulsive is Black liberals trying to advance the socialist agenda by mischaracterizing the Civil Rights Movement or distorting history. Yet that happens every day. Ask Jesse Jackson. Or Al Sharpton. Or Kwesi Mfume. Or Julian Bond. Or Andrew Young. Or Coleman Young. Or Marion Barry. Or Louis Farrakhan. Or any of their fellow travelers/apologists.
Asking a liberal to be color blind is like asking a fish to stay dry.
What a frickin' stupid moron. He can't follow a simple line of reasoning. He's a racist b@st@rd! Apparently the only constitutional right granted blacks in this @$$h@t'$ opinion is the constitutionally guaranteed right to commit genocide via abortion....
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice provided a textbook example of this during a recent appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”
** Condi grew up in the midst of segregation. That's all I need to know. I remember seeing that issue of Emerge on the newsstand and issuing a CURSE on it then ripping up the copy I grabbed off the shelf.
Very interesting how they dissect her family tree all the way back to slavery but slobber all over Barack Obama.
That was left to authors and legislators who wrote and passed the 13th and 14th amendments, which extended the protections of US citizenship to blacks, either newly freed, or descendants of generations of free blacks.
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
That was left to authors and legislators who wrote and passed the 13th and 14th amendments, which extended the protections of US citizenship to blacks, either newly freed, or descendants of generations of free blacks.
I know what he means, like when that repulsican Algore Sr. got up and filibustered the Civil Rights amendments of 1965, and when that racist republican who is still in the senate, Robert Byrd did the same. Hell he was even a member of the KLAN! And all those republican governors in the south used the police and fire dept. to disenfranchise all those black voters.... hideous! It was the kind hearted democrats who helped set up the NAACP, and now the GOP has turned them into a racist organization. All these so-called "house blacks" just don't know the true history of this nation. {/BIZARRO-WORLD}
This is of a piece with other pieces within the black press. Establishment black leaders have latched themselves onto the patronage bandwagon of the Democratic Party. Given that fact, they have to work within the apparatus of that party. That means the Clintons.
Rice upsets that applecart. Should she run and should she win, their entire arrangement collapses like the house of cards that it is.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Ho hum. Another liberal trots out the tired horse; any black person who isn't liberal is not really black, doesn't understand the 'truth of the black condition' (defined by liberals as eternal victimhood where anything the ), or is a 'house ...'. This dweeb hits the cliche' from all angles. It's just boring to read these guys because every single one says exactly the same tripe.
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 guy is just plain wrong he is the reason why my tag-line exists. Also his history is wrong because the United States is the only country that I know of that fought a Civil War to end slavery. I don't want to hear that states rights stuff either b/c it was over the states right to have slaves as property. If not for the Republicans there would not have been a 13,14, and 15th amendments. Oh by the way George Curry 90 years after this country came into existence slavery was ended. People like Farrakhan like to spout the 400 years of oppression but most of that was when this country was owned and operated by British. My great grandfather held off the clan in the early part of last century with a shotgun, pistol and a Winchester and that was way before 1960's Birmingham. America is still the greatest country for any black person to live in. Sure it has its faults but black Americans have the highest standard of living of any Africanized people in the World! Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it George Curry!
I>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."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…”
Individuals asserting they will not be victims is not "active in the movement"
"active in the movement" is identification with the group victimhood.
This is true!
What a maroon! The wisdom of the Founding Fathers, despite this idjit's attitude toward them, was that it didn't matter WHO you are, if you are an American citizen, you DO have the right to defend yourself.
His bias against conservatives in general, and Black conservatives in particular, is glaring.
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