Just a quick history note for those who are
shocked by Condoleeza Rice publicly stating that America has a "birth
defect" when it comes to race: Rice grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the late 50s and
60s. One of her childhood playmates was among those four little girls who were
murdered by a Klansman's bomb in the basement of their own church. Stop and
think about that: four beautiful little black girls, attending church on a
Sunday morning, blown up with dynamite by a white racial terrorist. This was not
an event that Condoleeza Rice heard about on t.v., or saw in the paper. It was
her personal friend torn apart by racial hatred. Rice has every right in the
world to have the opinions that she does when it comes to race. To suggest that
she does not, that somehow she is out of line to voice those opinions (as Dobbs
did below), is simply obscene. It is an insult to the history that Rice has
lived through firsthand, and a devaluation of the price that she has had to pay
for America's racial sins.