Condi Speaks! Finally, I agree.

Condoleeza Rice, a brown woman in American politics, doing her thing, or at least portraying to do her own thing; has spoken about something many of us are way too aware of, the factor of a needless term: race.

I never thought I'd be able to agree with her on anything she'd ever say, but I do. Finally. In an interview with the unfortunate-to-be-broadcast-24/7 Fox News, Rice says "Race" is still a factor in the U.S. Although, I don't like the term "Race" anyway for it's connotations of color in American society and sometimes worldwide, I agree with the general idea behind it. We cannot become so complacent in our daily doings and become so infinitely brainwashed to the point of actually believing a factor of "color," no longer exists. Because it still does.

Though I wake up everyday wishing things were different and better, they aren't. I wish people could truly say and mean, "I don't look at a person's skin color as a factor," but they can't. Some maybe able to look at some people and not see color, but take a tour to the westside of L.A., or the South Bronx, or Hialeah in Miami, and then tell me if you can truly look at another person and not see their color. It still exist and I truly believe that as long as we are on this world, it always will be. But, feel free to read the article as copy and pasted below.




Rice: Race barrier is eroding
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON - (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appealing and says it won't be much longer before race isn't a barrier to becoming president.
Obama is a top-tier contender among Democrats and his wide support early in the 2008 race ''just shows that we've come a very long way,'' Rice said on Fox News Sunday.
''I do think we've come a long way in overcoming stereotypes, role stereotypes about African Americans. I will say race is still a factor. When a person walks into a room, I still think people still see race,'' Rice said.
''But it's less and less of a barrier to believing that that person can be your doctor or your lawyer . . . . And it will not be long, I think, before it's no longer a barrier to being president of the United States,'' Rice said.
She noted that if she continues in her post through January 2009, ``we will not have had a white male secretary of state for 12 years -- a white woman, black man and a black woman. That says something about how far our country has come, even though we can't deceive ourselves. Race is still a factor in this country.''



© Robyn K. Mizelle, February 2007.