Posted on 07/10/2005 6:31:51 AM PDT by Scarchin
HENNIKER — James Meredith yesterday challenged a “white supremacy” he said leaves Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a second-class citizen, despite her prominent role.
Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi and an attorney and writer who lives in Oxford, Miss., spoke at New England College as a part of the school’s weeklong residency portion of a course in “pop culture and politics.”
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Despite repeated attempts by some of the 20 in attendance, he declined to say what full citizenship means. Later, he said in an interview, if you have to ask you’re probably part of the problem.
bttt
Discussion already underway.
Saw it. Just wanted to test this one.
Thanks.
Pull this thread.
Why would you want to pull a thread? Do the discussion of issues offend you?
I am so proud that our society has overcome our racially troubled past to the point where now a white man such as myself can observe that a particular black man, namely Mr. Meredith, appears to have been educated beyond his intelligence, without the white man being called a racist.
Is this a great country or what?
whoops.......my bad
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