What Rice Can't See (great op-ed from WaPo)

Finally, another African-American questions Kinda Sleazy's motives in propping up *. I love it!!
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by Eugene Robinson

Like a lot of African Americans, I've long wondered what the deal was with Condoleezza Rice and the issue of race. How does she work so loyally for George W. Bush, whose approval rating among blacks was measured in a recent poll at a negligible 2 percent? How did she come to a worldview so radically different from that of most black Americans? Is she blind, is she in denial, is she confused -- or what?

After spending three days with the secretary of state and her entourage as she toured Birmingham, where she grew up in a protective bubble as the tumult of the civil rights movement swirled around her, I have a partial answer: It's as if Rice is still cosseted in her beloved Titusville, the neighborhood of black strivers where she was raised, able to see the very different reality that other African Americans experience but not to reach out of the bubble -- not able to touch that other reality, and thus not able to really understand it.

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When Rice was growing up, her father stood guard at the entrance of her neighborhood with a rifle to keep the Klan's nightriders away. But that was outside the bubble. Inside the bubble, Rice was sitting at the piano in pretty dresses to play Bach fugues. It sounds like a wonderful childhood, but one that left her able to see the impact that race has in America -- able to examine it and analyze it -- but not to feel it.

If there's a "Rosebud" to decode the enigma that is Condoleezza Rice, it's Titusville.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102401370.html

everything else about her is lily white. As the story suggests she was never exposed to anything remotely connected to the struggles of poor or lower middle class blacks in America. She's truly a "bubble girl", groomed to live within the white man's world and denied any connection to her black heritage.

what Mr. Robinson will write if Condi replaces Cheney? Glad she had a little time to shop during Katrina because her days will be busier than ever. She is a Cinderella for sure....if the glass slipper fits......

no wonder she views him as "her husband..."

and she thinks she'll marry Bush in the end. What other motivation could possibly exist?