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Former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Sunday blamed Democrats for racism after she was asked about Donald Trump's controversial bigoted statements.
During an interview on CNN, host Fareed Zakaria asked Rice about some of Trump's most racist statements, like telling Democratic congresswomen to "go back" where they came from. And when he said there were good people on "both sides" at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
"When you hear Trump, this is a repudiation of everything you were trying to do," Zakaria pointed out.
"The president needs to be a lot more careful," Rice agreed. "Race is a very delicate and raw nerve in America. We have the birth defect of slavery, we have the birth defect of a number of people being treated badly."
"But I tell you," she continued. "You need to be careful, Fareed. It's not all coming out of the White House. I hear a lot coming out of the left of these issues to, that I don't like the language that is being used about people, that because somebody looks a certain way or are of a certain color, they ought to think a certain way. And if they don't think a certain way, then they're really not black."
Rice asserted that "we need to all back off."
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/condi-rice-blames-both-sides-trumps-racism?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=20815
CatMor
(6,212 posts)the only one to blame for trump's racism is trump.
Voltaire2
(13,023 posts)malaise
(268,968 posts)Go away uncle Tom's kith and kin - please go away - you disgust me. Go and play the piano for your owners.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)CatWoman
(79,301 posts)and remember her on the Kavanaugh cheerleading team during his hearings?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)She hawking a new book or something?
Go fuck yourself, Condi.
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)The money trumps peace crowd.
eShirl
(18,490 posts)we'll wait
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)Nothingin the article suggests she is blaming the left for Trump's racism.
She IS saying there is also racism on both ends of the spectrum But that is a different matter. I don't think she's wrong as to the existence of racism on both sides, but it is inaccurate to treat them as equivalent in quantity and quality.
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)Nah.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)rurallib
(62,411 posts)two people so different in one family.
Too bad more people haven't heard of Connie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_L._Rice
In her non-litigation work in the 1990s, Rice served as counsel to the Watts gang truce and spearheaded a statewide campaign to save equal opportunity programs. Mayors Tom Bradley and Richard Riordan appointed Rice to the governing board of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power where she served as president and enacted contracting reforms and environmental advances. In 1998, Rice helped lead a successful campaign to place aggressive public school reformers on the governing board for Los Angeles public schools.[4]
As a litigator, Rice has filed class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, probation and public housing. She filed a landmark case on behalf of the Bus Riders Union that resulted in a mandate that more than $2 billion be spent to improve the Los Angeles bus system. In 1999, Rice launched a coalition lawsuit that won $750 million for new school construction in Los Angeles - money previously slated for less crowded, more affluent suburban school districts. In these and other cases, Rice has led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and clients to win more than $4 billion of injunctive relief and damages.[3]
In 2013, Rice participated in an internal review of the Los Angeles Police Department's firing of Christopher Dorner (who cited racism as the basis of his termination, and subsequently the reason for his shootings). After a lengthy review of the LAPD's firing of Dorner, Rice concluded that the firing was justified and that Dorner's allegations of racism were unfounded.[5]
She has also provided commentaries for NPR.
She would make an occasional appearance on The Bill Moyers Show back in the day.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Shut up Condi
You revealed yourself as a pathetic opportunist at Exxon
Now, about that PhD...
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,985 posts)Because otherwise you sound exactly like you're deflecting for Trump.
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)should just STFU and count their blessings.
dlk
(11,561 posts)Who can forget the massive corruption in the administration she was part of? Her credibility is nil.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)spanone
(135,830 posts)dem4decades
(11,288 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Vague allegations of "I hear a lot" of how it's not all coming out of the White House. And certainly no indication that "they're not really black" is a conscious, directed program coming down from the highest level. So, "both sides"? I think not.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)And elite Republicans read the WSJ. Which is a propaganda arm of the Murdoch family.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Good 'ol Fareed.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Unbelievable!
salin
(48,955 posts)In the fall, I was a new phd student. There was a long standing issue per pay disparity between male and female professors, and there was a symposium to discuss the issue. She was representing the Status Quo.
I had never heard of her before this session. Aside from voicing all of the standard excuses: More women are professors in lower paying/demand/grant-producing fields than males. (When challenged that the disparities were the same in the fields she referred to as opposed to the Humanities) she engaged in rhetorical diversion-non responses. She came off as a "yes-person" for the university and its Board. I was impressed by some of the panel, but while I found Rice to be very intellegent and well-versed, her responses still boiled down to toadying to the employer.
Thus I wasn't surprised by her role/support in the GWBush administration, nor am I surprised by this "both-sidesism" empty navigating away from the core issue.
JDC
(10,127 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)Bothsiderism when it's obviously not warranted is one of my biggest pet peeves.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)testimony in front of the 9-11 Commission she can never be believed again. She lied when she said no one could have imagined anyone using planes as missiles two months after the G8 meetings in Genoa, Italy where all the dignitaries were moved from the hotels to ships because intelligence reports said al Qaeda was planning to fly planes into the hotels.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)A mushroom cloud of racism? Or a mushroom cloud of bothsidesism?
Whatever it is, she doesn't have her ear to the ground I'm walking on, I can tell. It would be good to know her references.
Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)Lying war monger should have been sent to the Hague.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)It's like these people know their party line is complete bullshit, but they have some kneejerk need to still seek affirmation from their base.
You don't get to have it both ways, Condi.