Rice: Disaster shows 'ugly way' race, poverty collide

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the people who were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are evidence that race and poverty can still come together "in a very ugly way" in parts of the "Old South."

"The United States should want to do something about that," Rice said in an interview Monday with the editorial board of The New York Times. "There are still places that race and poverty are a huge problem in the United States, and we've got to deal with that."
....
"And I say that absolutely, fundamentally," she said. "You go to any other meeting around the world and show me the kind of diversity that you see in America's Cabinet, in America's foreign service, in America's business community, in America's journalistic community.

"Show me that kind of diversity anyplace else in the world, and I'm prepared to be lectured about race."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/13/katrina.rice/index.html

[hatrack]

1. Blahblahblah . . . .blahblahblah . . . .blahblah . . . .

Blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah . . . :puke:

[Skittles]

2. "Skittles: Disaster shows 'ugly way' Condi, compassion collide"

f***ing BUSH WHORE

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

48. Now, now. Is that anyway to talk about our next

pResident?

[regnaD kciN]

51. Not a chance...

No matter how much she kisses her "husband"'s posterior (or other body parts?), there is simply no way that the vast majority of the Republican base is going to vote for someone with a) no Y-chromosome or b) different skin pigmentation. Combine both those traits, and their heads will explode!

Condi has as much chance to get the G.O.P. nomination as Nader has of being the Democratic nominee.

:eyes:

[saigon68]

3. Condosleezy SPEAKS

Those poor people in New Orleans are just LAZY

and NOT AS "pretty" AS ME. She continued.

[daninthemoon]

4. Talk is cheap. Whatcha gonna do about it?

[Lochloosa]

5. Ugly and Rice just go togeathere...don't you think.

[goclark]

16. She is Little Miss White Rice nt

[Child_Of_Isis]

6. "Old South." ?

She is in touch isn't she? It happens everywhere.

[MnFats]

7. "when race and poverty collide....GO SHOPPING FOR SHOES!"

i think that's about the only perspective she has.
that and "Spamalot."

[Devil Dog Dem]

8. She is an expert on ugly. I'll give her that.

Gap-toothed freakazoid.

[raccoon]

27. With her dinero, you'd think she'd get her teeth fixed. nt

[Sparkman]

9. Right, Euro-Americans of varied countries of origin: enforced Slavery and

enforced via death marches our Reservation-Concentration Camps, medical experimentation on blacks and prisoners. And now the scant participation by some ethnicities' in Institutional Racism shows up in the corporate boardrooms when conservatives bribe congressional and executive politicians who now gut affirmative action, universal health care access, higher education scholarships, worker wage minimums, financial preferences for the wealthiest and even voter access to democratic insitutions.
Connie is so entrenced in the monied elite of our oligarchy, she can't see her own negligence and deriliction of the sec. of states' missed opportunities to ease the growing gap between rich & poor from the right shifting US government. imo

[Minstrel Boy]

10. "Show me that kind of diversity anyplace else in the world,

and I'm prepared to be lectured about race."

[ret5hd]

13. a beautiful response, MB (nt)

[confludemocrat]

23. true, and 90% of the reason people like Bush hate it so much

is in that picture

[Hand]

31. DING DING DING DING DING!!!! We have a WINNER!!!!!!

And that settles that! :yourock:

[Mr_Spock]

38. Dig it - what a friggin copout by Condolying W$#%#

She may not have race because she chooses to pretend she's not black, no wonder she doesn't want to speak about race.

[progressivebydesign]

11. Did she distribute shoes while she was there? n/t

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[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Condoleeza Rice is fucking crazy.

There is far more diversity in other nations, than there is in our own country. Education transcends color and gender in third world nations. Other nations have voted in blacks and women as presidents or leaders of their countries.

Open your eyes, Condi. And cry along with us.

[goclark]

15. That's it! She is totally insane!

I would advise her to look at her TV and check out the % of people that are in positions to "take charge" of anything and she will see RACISM in America.

Just look at any channel and watch who gives the news and the people that are in charge of what ever is happening....

fireman, police- not the NO staff , reporters, Tweety and all his crew, Heads that speak for organizations, the Senate - one real African American the CABINET (NO African Americans or other minorities...just three I believe SLAVES for the MASTER, those three are not representing their race, they are little BUSH SLAVES that are painted to look like the race they pretend to be.

Shut Up Condi, you embarrass all of my Brothers and Sisters that you had when you were a child.

Or as Kanye says.... GEORGE BUSH DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE

[zann725]

17. If only she'd donated her $4,000 Ferragamo money to Red Cross...

I might believe her more. OR if she'd spoken out sooner.

[SoCalDem]

34. Muss up that helmet-hair, take her shoes, deprived of a shower for a week

put her in a pair of polyester stretch pants and a tee shirt...take her ID away..then drop her into the Super Dome a week ago..or the Astro Dome today..

She would have a better "feel" for what lots of people go through daily...at stores, schools, offices, neighborhoods..

[Terran]

18. Bubble woman

Pathetic that an African-American woman should utter this phrase: "There are still places that race and poverty are a huge problem in the United States..." Ivory Tower intellectual that she is, she apparently has no clue that both problems exit everywhere in this nation and are getting worse, not better.

[cliss]

21. Here's why she's clueless:

Condi Rice is a multi-millionaire. At this point, she could very well be a billionaire. She is a former employee of Chevron(?). She had an oil tanker named after her.

She's very well versed in "White Man's politics" and she knows how to play the game. And it's paid off very well for her.

The problem is, millions of dollars have a way of isolating you. She's single, has no kids, but she has LOTS of shoes.

While the South was drowning, she was at Ferragamo's buying thousand-dollar shoes. No one is moved by her speeches, because she is empty inside with nothing but a big bank account.

And she does have shoes.

[Terran]

22. Actually in her case

I think it's more than just money. Like Bush, I think she too is a dysfunctional personality. I've read some things about her that are pretty disturbing.

[goclark]

39. Tell us the gossip, what's disturbing?

Enguiring Minds Want To Know : )

[Terran]

47. I read something on a blog, can't remember which one

It was a comment issued by a man who purported to be a cousin of Condi's. He said that most of her life as he has known her, she has always been very cold, closed up, virginal, possibly Lesbian (he stated he is gay). So this apparent 'flowering' under George Bush he took as a sign of nothing short of major emotional infatuation.

Sorry that's rather vague; I didn't save the link, and in any case I have no way of knowing if this guy was indeed who he said he was. But I do think his statement is supported somewhat by the way she seems to be around George and Laura so very very much. I mean, didn't she have Xmas dinner with them last year? And compare that dominatrix look with her earlier buttoned-up look from when she first came on as Nat'l Security Advisor. I find the whole thing creepy; I'm betting Georgie just loves it.

[neuvocat]

19. Go someplace else then.

Germany and Brazil have very diverse populations you dumb bitch. If you're serious about it though, then see if you can do something about freerepublic when you get back.

[leftofcool]

20. Spoken like a true racist white woman....

with an African American face and a forked tongue!!!!!!!!!!

Left of Cool

[katty]

24. She's just NOW speaking to this FACT?! predictable swill from CON-di

[Eugene]

25. IOW: "Race may be a problem, but it's not our fault."

I had hoped she would stop herself at the insulting
reference to all the high profile black faces in America.
Unfortunately, Condi goes full jingo in the article.
America has the best race relations in the world, she says.

:puke: :puke:

When 100,000 poor, mostly black Americans were in danger,
the Bushies could not even interrupt their vacations.
What country can she compare this to favorably?

[AspenRose]

26. Well, princess Ferragamo, prepared to be lectured by our neighbo(u)rs

to the north....

"And I say that absolutely, fundamentally," she said. "You go to any other meeting around the world and show me the kind of diversity that you see in America's Cabinet, in America's foreign service, in America's business community, in America's journalistic community.
Show me that kind of diversity anyplace else in the world, and I'm prepared to be lectured about race."

Um, how about CANADA for starters? Have you seen their GG? I don't believe she's been the first GG of colo(u)r, either. Canada's even had a female prime minister (albeit for a brief stint).

Canada consistently shows diversity.

[daleo]

30. True, our previous GG was a woman, of Chinese heritage. n/t

[fooj]

28. Nice shoes, bitch!

:grr:

[leftofcool]

29. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!eom

[SoCalDem]

32. So.. there's a genteel way for them to "collide"?

:eyes:

[Dora]

33. How are those shoes feeling, girl?

I am reminded of "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen.

Condi is dancing.

[deacon2]

35. Stuff a Ferragamo in it, CondImelda n/t

[Megahurtz]

36. Zzzzzzzzzzzz

:boring:

[applegrove]

37. That kind of diversity exists in Canada, Brazil, Caribbean, Europe,

Asia, Africa, South America, but not POLAND.

[Fire Walk With Me]

40. Utterly.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rice+oil+tanker

[cyr330]

41. What does she have to say for herself?

Does she admit that she's an "Uncle Tom" who's only too willing to do the dirty work for this corrupt administration?

[Maggie_May]

42. What the hell does she know about poverty

did she plead with the president to get off his ass to get them help.
No this women was out buying shoes. She is so out of touch with average people she has no idea what the hell she is talking about. God I just can't take there bullshit anymore.:mad:

[DFWdem]

53. Plenty

I'm no Condi fan, but she grew up in abject poverty in Alabama in the 1950's. I'm sure she knows a thing or two about poverty. Or, she used to, anyway. Not sure if she remembers it anymore.

[harlinchi]

43. African Americans who have had oil tankers named after them...

...have forfeited their right to discuss what ordinary Blacks feel and think. Those with tankers have observed on which side their bread was buttered. I'm glad she achieved financial success; I wish she had remained more grounded in reality.

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[saigon68]

49. That would be some "can opener"

[noonwitch]

45. At least someone in the administration is seeing the racial/poverty factor

How can she really deny it, having grown up black in the south.

She also knew one of the little girls in the Alabama church bombing in the early 60s, the one Spike Lee made the documentary about. Whatever my criticisms of her may be about policy, I have never experienced racism the way she has.

[RedCloud]

46. Hey, Condasleeza remember your W ass kissing in Brazil?

"You have blacks here too?"

Maybe if you had exposed that prick for the ignorant shit that he is, a president with a clue on humanity might be in the White House right now!

[superconnected]

50. sure

"There are still places that race and poverty are a huge problem in the United States, and we've got to deal with that."

Personally I don't think race is a problem. I think poverty is. But yes when Race and poverty collide it's a problem.

Other than helping Bushco make the middle class poor and the poor homeless, it's nice of you, MS Rice to give lip service to the poor black people. After all, that is what you were hired for.

[applegrove]

52. As opposed to the "pretty way" in which race & poverty collide to

rally the conservative base when needed.