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National NewsConservative News
The Attacks on Condoleezza Rice
By Jim Jackson
Posted on: January 27, 2005
The attacks on Condoleezza Rice by some of the Democrats is something to behold. It’s been nearly half a century since a white person, any white person, dared criticize a black person. And, the criticism here is not polite. It is about as harsh as it gets in the public arena -- repeatedly calling a person in a high level government position a bald-faced liar goes way beyond a difference of opinion.
It is even more unusual not to hear a loud chorus of black people and black organizations, supported by the national media, coming to her defense. Most of the time, there is a black organization or black person on every corner poised to scream racism whenever a white person criticizes a black person. Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Rep. John Lewis, the The Justice Dept.’s Office of Civil Rights, the Congressional Black Caucus, and others? After all, the politically correct (PC) system that has been set up by the government, and supported by the media, is being violated.
What’s going on here? Let’s consider the possibilities.
Rice is a black person who has elected to join mainstream America instead of wallowing in past history as a victim, and essentially living in the welfare state. She is an independent person who has earned her way. This attitude and position is against everything the black leadership stands for -- it’s “acting white.” Therefore, she is being thrown to the wolves. How dare she make it on her own. To my knowledge the only black person that has come to her defense is Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta (Fox News, 1/25/05), and his support got very little attention.
In addition, not only has she dared join the mainstream, but she has dared do it as a conservative Republican instead of a liberal Democrat. She apparently doesn’t understand that the black community has built its power in the Democratic Party. This Party has rapidly become the black party, with the goal of continuing and expanding the welfare state and all of its free goodies -- class warfare has become the primary tenet.
A few writers have tried to dwell on the fact that Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up during the civil rights struggles. Normally, this would give her an even higher place on the national scene -- a place where criticism would be impossible. But, since she is not in favor with the black leadership, this coverage has been almost nil.
Why are blacks avoiding her? Her success, achieved independent of the black leadership, endangers the aura of white guilt that sustains the victim society that supports this leadership. If enough blacks demonstrate success, and it becomes widely known, white guilt cannot be sustained and the black “house of cards” will crumble -- their preferential treatment will go down the drain. Blacks must remain balkanized -- Africans instead of Americans.
One can easily, and logically, conclude that this is the reason you could find few blacks in high level positions in the Clinton administration, and why the black leadership didn’t complain -- Jesse Jackson was one of Clinton’s close friends, yet you never heard any complaints. And, obviously this is why you hear few plaudits for the Bush administration.
The only blacks allowed to openly celebrate their success are those in the entertainment industry -- sports, television and Hollywood. The reason is that you cannot hide success earned in this marketplace -- it’s too well publicized. This is not true in other market arenas.
Brendan Miniter of The Wall Street Journal, 1/25/05, summarized it this way: “Every day she must face those who would rather that someone like her -- with her intelligence, political savvy and personal appeal -- hadn’t come along at all.”
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