Rice on Race

Condoleeza has some insight. Here. Interesting.

Why aren't we better talking about race

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My two cents:

• In talking to someone else of another race, we say stupid things. So does the other person. We need to cut each other some slack. Grace.
  
  
• Few of us have declared personal war on segregation. I mean practical segregation...we don't have meals or fellowship or go to church with folks of other races. God wants your personal life integrated. Get moving.
  
  
• Whites too easily dismiss historical wrongs and don't fairly consider contemporary outcomes of those wrongs. Pity.
  
  
• Blacks suspect that whites are too often talking about them when we are not with them.
  
  
• We lack love. Jesus said to love your neighbor. Then he told a race story (Good Samaritan) to show what he meant. That racial divide at the time of Christ was deeper than what blacks/whites have today. Wonder what story Jesus would share today to get the "majority" to hear "minority" perspective.
  
  
• Both sides deny that they have any problems at all on race. Look deep. You have problems. Saying, for instance, that "some of my best friends are black" doesn't dismiss those problems. More likely, it proves you really do have a major blind spot.
  

Reflections on Obama-McCain

Some thoughts:

• By November, it will be a secondary issue, but that issue is race. And independents, who in polling right now are breaking toward McCain, don't want to hear about it.
  
  
• Obama is as bad as most whites - and he is half white - talking about race. Admit it - we don't do a good job in this country discussing race, discrimination, etc.
  
  
• By November, this will only matter to the tune of 2-4 percentage points. Which, of course, is huge.
  
  
• McCain must have thought it some kind of curse when it dawned on him that Obama-Clinton would be getting all the ink after Huckabee pulled out. Betting he has changed his mind on that.
  
  
• Unfortunately for Obama, Jeremiah Wright still keeps lecturing and preaching. There will always be someone in the crowd who will be recording hoping for some red meat statement.
  
  
• Want to bet what Michelle Obama's take on all of this has been in the past few days? What attitude she has been privately demonstrating?
  
  
• The "race" issue has been most adequately "discussed" not by Obama, Wright and the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson but by former representative J.C. Watts, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current SofS Condoleeza Rice - and they didn't discuss it much at all. They simply performed nobly and well. And...received no credit by black leadership on the left.
  

I Have a Dream Speech

Always good to review. Do it.