Condi Rice Blames Both Sides For Trump's Racism: 'There's A Lot Coming Out Of The Left'

[CatWoman]

Former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Sunday blamed Democrats for racism after she was asked about Donald Trump's controversial bigoted statements.

During an interview on CNN, host Fareed Zakaria asked Rice about some of Trump's most racist statements, like telling Democratic congresswomen to "go back" where they came from. And when he said there were good people on "both sides" at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.

"When you hear Trump, this is a repudiation of everything you were trying to do," Zakaria pointed out.

"The president needs to be a lot more careful," Rice agreed. "Race is a very delicate and raw nerve in America. We have the birth defect of slavery, we have the birth defect of a number of people being treated badly."

"But I tell you," she continued. "You need to be careful, Fareed. It's not all coming out of the White House. I hear a lot coming out of the left of these issues to, that I don't like the language that is being used about people, that because somebody looks a certain way or are of a certain color, they ought to think a certain way. And if they don't think a certain way, then they're really not black."

Rice asserted that "we need to all back off."


https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/condi-rice-blames-both-sides-trumps-racism?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=20815

[CatMor]

1. Sorry Condi ...

the only one to blame for trump's racism is trump.

[Voltaire2]

2. Horrible war criminal said what?

[Iliyah]

3. STFU

[malaise]

4. Condi and her relatives pretended the 16th St slaughter didn't happen

Go away uncle Tom's kith and kin - please go away - you disgust me. Go and play the piano for your owners.

[CottonBear]

5. STFU, you warmongering liar. N/T

[empedocles]

6. Condi looking at further employment prospects?

[CatWoman]

14. that's what I think

and remember her on the Kavanaugh cheerleading team during his hearings?

[empedocles]

20. Fits

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I hear a lot coming out of the left? BS!! NT

[justhanginon]

21. She sounds a lot like Herr Frumpf's crapola, "some people are saying".

[GoCubsGo]

8. Why has Kindasleazzzy crawled out from under her rock?

She hawking a new book or something?

Go fuck yourself, Condi.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Must. Protect. Mineral. Extractors.

The money trumps peace crowd.

[eShirl]

10. for example?

we'll wait

[Ms. Toad]

11. Your headline is inaccurate.

Nothingin the article suggests she is blaming the left for Trump's racism.

She IS saying there is also racism on both ends of the spectrum But that is a different matter. I don't think she's wrong as to the existence of racism on both sides, but it is inaccurate to treat them as equivalent in quantity and quality.

[BeyondGeography]

12. Show a little spine for once, Condi

Nah.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Word salad.

[Mc Mike]

15. She always sucked. She probably used to blame the neighbors up on dynamite hill.

[rurallib]

16. When I hear of Condi, I think of her cousin Connie Rice

two people so different in one family.
Too bad more people haven't heard of Connie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_L._Rice

In her non-litigation work in the 1990s, Rice served as counsel to the Watts gang truce and spearheaded a statewide campaign to save equal opportunity programs. Mayors Tom Bradley and Richard Riordan appointed Rice to the governing board of Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power where she served as president and enacted contracting reforms and environmental advances. In 1998, Rice helped lead a successful campaign to place aggressive public school reformers on the governing board for Los Angeles’ public schools.[4]

As a litigator, Rice has filed class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, probation and public housing. She filed a landmark case on behalf of the Bus Riders Union that resulted in a mandate that more than $2 billion be spent to improve the Los Angeles bus system. In 1999, Rice launched a coalition lawsuit that won $750 million for new school construction in Los Angeles - money previously slated for less crowded, more affluent suburban school districts. In these and other cases, Rice has led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and clients to win more than $4 billion of injunctive relief and damages.[3]

In 2013, Rice participated in an internal review of the Los Angeles Police Department's firing of Christopher Dorner (who cited racism as the basis of his termination, and subsequently the reason for his shootings). After a lengthy review of the LAPD's firing of Dorner, Rice concluded that the firing was justified and that Dorner's allegations of racism were unfounded.[5]

She has also provided commentaries for NPR.

She would make an occasional appearance on The Bill Moyers Show back in the day.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Got Her Status By Bowing To Power

Shut up Condi
You revealed yourself as a pathetic opportunist at Exxon
Now, about that PhD...

[50 Shades Of Blue]

18. Exactly what do you hear, Condi? Please be specific with your accusations.

Because otherwise you sound exactly like you're deflecting for Trump.

[GeorgeGist]

19. War criminals who aren't in prison or dead ...

should just STFU and count their blessings.

[dlk]

22. More of the Bogus Bothsiderism

Who can forget the massive corruption in the administration she was part of? Her credibility is nil.

[Lint Head]

23. This war criminal is suddenly relevant? Blood is own her hands.

[Skittles]

24. she is still sickening

[spanone]

25. why don't you point out what you hear out of the left, condi? ....you lying republican.

[dem4decades]

26. What if the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud Condi? Fuck her.

[gratuitous]

27. Concrete examples on one side

Vague allegations of "I hear a lot" of how it's not all coming out of the White House. And certainly no indication that "they're not really black" is a conscious, directed program coming down from the highest level. So, "both sides"? I think not.

[sharedvalues]

28. She believes this because WSJ lies about it daily

And elite Republicans read the WSJ. Which is a propaganda arm of the Murdoch family.

[Miles Archer]

29. Some people need to "back off," and she's one of them. How can we miss her when she won't go away?

[uponit7771]

30. Then Fareed asked,"what democratic leaders are saying this a habit?..." right? no? figured ... sigh

[ooky]

39. Yeah.

Good 'ol Fareed.

[lunatica]

31. She fucking gave Trump a pass on racism and blamed the rest of us.

Unbelievable!

[salin]

32. Not surprised. In 1993 she was a Provost for Stanford.

In the fall, I was a new phd student. There was a long standing issue per pay disparity between male and female professors, and there was a symposium to discuss the issue. She was representing the Status Quo.

I had never heard of her before this session. Aside from voicing all of the standard excuses: More women are professors in lower paying/demand/grant-producing fields than males. (When challenged that the disparities were the same in the fields she referred to as opposed to the Humanities) she engaged in rhetorical diversion-non responses. She came off as a "yes-person" for the university and its Board. I was impressed by some of the panel, but while I found Rice to be very intellegent and well-versed, her responses still boiled down to toadying to the employer.

Thus I wasn't surprised by her role/support in the GWBush administration, nor am I surprised by this "both-sidesism" empty navigating away from the core issue.

[JDC]

33. F U Condi

[Proud Liberal Dem]

34. WABOBS

Bothsiderism when it's obviously not warranted is one of my biggest pet peeves.

[The Wizard]

35. After her disgraceful

testimony in front of the 9-11 Commission she can never be believed again. She lied when she said no one could have imagined anyone using planes as missiles two months after the G8 meetings in Genoa, Italy where all the dignitaries were moved from the hotels to ships because intelligence reports said al Qaeda was planning to fly planes into the hotels.

[Eyeball_Kid]

36. What is she talking about?

A mushroom cloud of racism? Or a mushroom cloud of bothsidesism?

Whatever it is, she doesn't have her ear to the ground I'm walking on, I can tell. It would be good to know her references.

[Liberal In Texas]

37. So I guess the "Left" is making aluminum tubes?

Lying war monger should have been sent to the Hague.

[Tarc]

38. Condi tries to thread the same needle Megyn Kelly did, and fails

It's like these people know their party line is complete bullshit, but they have some kneejerk need to still seek affirmation from their base.

You don't get to have it both ways, Condi.