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I think Condi said the right thing to this group. Most of them think that Black conservatives are little more than wannabe whites pretending that race doesn't matter. She effectively dispelled that notion and that no doubt endeared some of them to her. I think it'll soften any tendency on their part to attack her.

Firstly, most of these black liberal columnists are at the beck and call of very white, very liberal newspaper editors who share with them a common fidelity to the Democratic Party. If it helps the Democratic Party for these columnists to attack Rice, they will do so. Condi is simply trying to make it difficult for them to do that with any honesty.

Dr. Rice knows what's coming at her: the Hildebeast and the DNC Agitation and Propaganda apparatus. So let us dispense with Mr. Pearson's sense of integrity and fair play: when the chips are down, Condi could be the Risen Christ and Pearson and his ilk will still tell everyone to vote straight Democratic.

Now then, Condi didn't intend to dispel anything. One thing I like about her is that she tends to say what she believes. Carefully, and with style, but she says what she believes.

All she was doing was stating a truth: race matters.

What the columnist did was to create a straw man to use as part of a general assault on black conservatives. To wit:

Black conservatives, take note: It's OK to admit that race is still a problem in this country. You don't have to sink into denial. The sky won't fall down. The ground won't swallow you up.
It doesn't mean that you have to join Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, take Congresswoman Maxine Waters to lunch or join the NAACP.
It's safe to take your heads out of the sand and face the truth: While the United States has made tremendous progress on race, it still has a long way to go.

Understand that there are very few black conservatives in this country who don't believe that "race matters". This columnist just decided to pull that straw man out of his ass because he wanted to make a cheap, rhetorical field goal from the five-yard line.

If Pearson can marginalize black conservatives in his own mind, then he doesn't have to deal with the serious questions they raise about the Great Society consensus that exists in the black community. When Condi was talking to that group of black columnists, it's as if what she was saying, and why she was saying it, soared over Pearson's head.

Race does matter. The difference is that black liberals like Pearson are obsessed by it; black conservatives are not.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Race matters.It always has.

Adults who have felt the sting of racial discrimination, try to make this country a better place for their children.This is the goal.Many strive to achieve it.

I am not black.My fraternal white grandmother detested me, and my brothers, her own grandchildren, because my mother was "a half breed heathen Indian".I was born in 1958.

Am I bitter? DUH. But I moved on, and so can all of us, in the USA.We are the only society with a chance of doing so.The trick is not to pass the "sins of the fathers" to the children.

I was raised in a racist environment.My grandmother hated me, but she really, truly hated black people even more. Anyone who expects me to apologise for her attitude against blacks, can KMA.If anyone expects me to justify it,KMA.

Do the "victims" of race baiting ever stop to consider the relative youth of our society as the USA? Even today, in 2002, in various parts of the USA, the old saying " the only good Indian is a dead one" is accepted as a commonly known truth.Why do some blacks feel they have some kind of edge on racial discrimination pain, because their ancestors were imported live? As opposed to conquered and slain, Native American indigenous people?Please!Try to buy a clue here.

This is the 21st century.Get over it, and try not to pass barbaric racial or religious hatred to your children.It may be a part of your adult experience, but it need not be your child's.

Of course, race matters.It will probably take a few more generations before it does not.If we train our children that the racial hatred of the past is condoned or accepted, it will never go away.

Adults must use our logic to overcome childish impulses.WAKE UP EVERYONE.AN ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY IS BEATING AT THE DOOR.WE CAN CHOOSE TO ADVANCE, OR WE CAN REVERT TO ABSOLUTE BARBARISM.

Chris,

I think your post was very eloquent on many many levels. Moreover, something you said about 2 weeks ago was even more telling. I will paraphrase, so please forgive anything lost or misinterpreted:

- Dr. Rice terrifies the "black leaders" and the Liberals because she is achieving without their help, blessing, or aid. On the contrary, she is succeeding without them. Should this continue, she owes them nothing, and marginalizes them to the doldrums of insignificance.

excellent reply. thank you for saving me the effort, and saying what I would have with greater style and brevity than I could have managed.

Race does matter. The difference is that black liberals like Pearson are obsessed by it; black conservatives are not.

There ya go. Race matters ok- now move on and do the best you can with what you got.