Condi Rice's Disdain for the Civil Rights Movement

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/chestnut11192005.html

Her Father Taught Her Well

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Mr. Robinson wrote that the parents of Ms. Rice did their best to shelter their only daughter from Jim Crow racism. The truth is they did a helluva lot more than shelter Ms. Rice. They misled her about the justice of the civil rights movement, misled her about the courage of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, misled her about the greatness of Rev. Martin King and misled her about all the dedicated people risking their lives in the streets and jails in Birmingham. Ms. Rice and most upper middle class blacks in Birmingham were misled in the 1960s about the black struggle and they were taught that the civil rights movement represented what black folks should not to do.

Ms. Rice's father, a prominent pastor in Birmingham, looked down on Shuttlesworth and his small working class congregation, and publicly called them "uneducated, misguided Negroes." But, in 2005, a life-size statute of Shuttlesworth stands majestically for all the ages in front of the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum. Rev. Rice's monument is his daughter's high position in a Republican administration that has 2% support in black America. That is poetic justice personified.

On the flight from Washington, Ms. Rice told Mr. Robinson, "I've always said about Birmingham that because race was everything, race was nothing." So, 40 years after her father denounced us, Ms. Rice reduces segregation, the movement, all the deaths and sacrifices to one word, "nothing." In a sense, she is in 2005 where her father was 40 years ago. I have a feeling she would spit on the grave of King and on all those brave souls whose life and death sacrifices put her where she is now.

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If the plight of black people had been left to the tender mercy of those black leaders that Bull Connor and George Wallace called moderates, we wouldn't be able to vote today or even rent a room at a racially segregated Holiday Inn. If our fortunes in 2005 are left in care of the Rices, our votes will matter less and less and we won't be able to afford a room at the local motel. Let there be no doubt that while white Alabama celebrates Ms. Rice, there is much reserve and distrust in black Alabama about the second black Secretary of State. Also, let there be no doubt why.
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and Condi doesn't give a shit about the women in Afghanistan and Iraq

[sam sarrha]

1. i always figured she was a wigger.... hang'n with the' Man' all the time

but homie dont play that....!!!

[goclark]

2. That is telling, telling and yet no surprise...

It is shameful that even now Condi doesn't get it.


It is true that some African Americans in her generation and her social upbringing were of that thinking THEN, but they would be few and far between now.

It really shows how far away from her real roots she has stooped to, she is by all accounts, WHITE.

No, I 'll take that back. Most of the Whites that I know may not have lived in that generation but they would certainly feel shame and sorrow for the Bombings in Birmingham.

Shame on Condi, I hope I am alive to see the day that she learns the pain of being in jail for War Crimes. Crimes that she did approve of with the help of her "husband."

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Nothing worse than a self-loathing __________ (fill-in-the-blank)

They do a lot of harm in their attempt to hide their self contempt.

[BloodyWilliam]

4. So our secretary of state is Uncle Rukus from the Boondocks?

Huh.

[goclark]

5. Sorry to say she needs to have the delightful and smart

grandsons to teach her a thing or two.

I love the Boondocks! It is my favorite show.

[DavidBowman]

6. This statement is unsupportable

"I have a feeling she would spit on the grave of King and on all those brave souls whose life and death sacrifices put her where she is now."

[mitchum]

7. "What is the nature of a thing?"

I don't find it very unsupportable