the second, much to his credit, his interest in Condi was less about her being a woman, let alone a black woman, and more about her being an accomplished individual.Īnd Dr.
And should anyone posit that a woman of color would not be welcome to Thanksgiving dinner in Kennebunkport, well, Bush brother Jeb had married himself a minority, so even that trail was previously blazed.īut for G. A protà f©gà f©e of Brent Scowcroft's, she served as a special assistant for national-security affairs to George H. Her worldview is faith based, courtesy of her reverend pops. Same as George, Condi's politics are right.
IF THE SITUATION were just slightly altered, Condoleezza Rice might have been, and would have made, a better Mrs. It was eleven days when two blacks ran America. But I for one will not let it go, won't let it get dumped into a potter's field of U. It was lost in the ash of fires in Over-the-Rhine. We need to burn into our collective memory the event that marked the beginning of our new timeline: an event from early in this millennium that seemed, for its moment in time, auspicious but that is now all but forgotten. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement. It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans-those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. We need to start extolling the most virtuous of ourselves. Just as whites may be concerned with the good of all citizens but don't travel their days worrying specifically about the well-being of hillbillies from Appalachia, we need to send niggers on their way.
So I say this: It's time for ascended blacks to wish niggers good luck. It is in the English lexicon, and no amount of political correctness, no amputation into "the n-word"-as if by the castration of a few letters we should then be able to conceptualize its meaning without feeling its sting-will remove it from reality. I have no qualm about using the word nigger. That which retards us is the worst of "us," those who disdain actual ascendancy gained by way of intellectual expansion and physical toil-who instead value the posture of an "urban," a "street," a "real" existence, no matter that such a culture threatens to render them extinct. If we as a race could win the centuries-long war against institutionalized racism, why is it that so many of us cannot secure the advantage after decades of freedom? But there are still too many blacks in prison, too many kids aggrandizing the thug life, and way too many African-Americans doing far too little with the opportunities others earned for them. In the forty years since the Deal was brokered, since the Voting Rights Act was signed, there have been successes for blacks. The Deal: We (blacks) take what is rightfully ours and you (the afore-described establishment) get citizens who will invest the same energy and dedication into raising families and working hard and being all around good people as was invested in snapping the neck of Jim Crow. We are the inheritors of "the Deal" forced upon the entrenched white social, political, and legal establishment when my parents' generation won the struggle for civil rights. Now, let me tell you something about my generation of black Americans. For the 69.3 percent of births they create out of wedlock. Not responsible for the 11.8 percent rate at which they drop out of high school. They are not responsible for their nearly 5 percent incarceration rate and their 9.2 percent unemployment rate. And though they spliff and drink and procreate their way onto welfare doles and WIC lines, niggers will tell you their state of being is no fault of their own. Constantly in need of a leader but unable to follow in any direction that's navigated by hard work, self-reliance. Notoriously poor about doing for themselves. Always complaining that they can't catch a break. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT NIGGERS, the oppressed minority within our minority.