Meet Condi's tough-talkin' "lefty" cousin, Connie Rice

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: "The Reliable Source"
By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Friday, October 21, 2005; Page C03


Straight Out of Left Field: Condi Rice's Cousin Connie


We've all got our little family secrets, and Condoleezza Rice's swept in this week from the West Coast (hey, same place we keep ours!): her second cousin, prominent Los Angeles activist-lawyer Constance Rice.

She's brilliant, she's driven -- and she's a total lefty! Wednesday, she had plenty of unsolicited workplace advice for her cuz from the dais of the Institute for Policy Studies' Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards.

"She needs to get another set of those stiletto boots and tell Dick Cheney, 'These boots were made for walkin' and they're gonna walk all over you,' " Rice said.

The tireless counsel-for-the-oppressed -- co-founder of the Advancement Project and formerly with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund -- presented an award to Barrios Unidos, a California-based group that works to reform gang members. (Judge Juan Guzman Tapia of Chile, who pursued former dictator Augusto Pinochet, was also honored.)

Our colleague David Montgomery reports that Connie Rice emphasized how much she loves and admires Condi but admitted that "family reunions are interesting."

"She has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I'm working on getting a Greenpeace trawler."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/21/AR2005102100243.html

[hippiechick]

1. Is this for real ?

Sounds like a SNL skit ... :shrug:

I'd love to see a photo of the 2 of them side-by-side.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. "Reliable Source" is the Post's gossip column, but this is real --

I don't think they make things up. Great, huh?

[qanda]

5. It's very real

Connie Rice has been around for a while. I'm surprised there hasn't been more written about her.

[notadmblnd]

8. I've seen connie speak..

she outshines her cousin by miles.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. She's been on Now w/ Bill Moyers a few times. n/t

[Zan_of_Texas]

38. Yep. Connie is awesome.

I've seen her on Moyers too.

[afdip]

14. actually, it brought to mind a menage a trois

with the two cons (as opposed to a toucan) and pat robertson. film at eleven. this is not a pretty picture.

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

18. See post #16 below for photos of both

[warrens]

27. She's a regular on Tavis Smiley's show

And she's funny as hell sometimes. About as left as you can get.

[Voltaire]

34. It is certainly real.....

Been hearing her do commentary in various places for a few years now. She is so unlike her cousin its unreal.

[Skinner]

2. LOL

I love it! :D

[jackster]

3. I've seen her on C-Span....

very intelligent, passionate, and driven woman

gives Condie a run for her money!

[indepat]

19. No mistake who the real shining light of this family happens to be

[ecstatic]

25. Is she being confused with Dr. Susan Rice?

I saw this woman on C-Span, and she was serving as Sen. Kerry's National Security Advisor. I thought it was very interesting, and she is much prettier than Condi.

http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/srice.htm

[jackster]

32. actually that's who I was thinking of!

AND I KNOW SHE TALKED ABOUT BEING CONDIE'S COUSIN!

Thanks for the correction. Are there 2 Condi cousins out there?

[goclark]

26. She is a shining STAR! The West Coast Connie that is...

Connie Rice runs circles around that one in the WH.


Connie Rice is amazing.

[vptpt]

6. What's with all the "Con" names

in that family?

[mondo joe]

7. So Condi is just the evil-universe version of Connie!

[No Exit]

10. Condoleezza must be the...er... white sheep.. of the family n/t

[SpiralHawk]

11. Connie Rice is also on PBS Now - David Brancacchio (sp?)

Friday nights (the old Bill Moyer's show).

At any rate, I saw her on this show once, and the host mentioned that she would be back regularly as a commentator.

She impressed me as intelligent, poised, nobody's fool, and having a Big Heart to go with her Big Brain. Dy-na-might!

[acmejack]

13. Constance rocks

It is like that Ahnold Devito flick, only Condi would be the bad twin with all the undesirable attributes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Great thread title! I wish they were all as pithy and informative.

Nominated the thread.

[Connie_Corleone]

15. I've seen her on TV several times during the presidential election.

She is definitely the exact opposite of Condi.

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

16. Here are the photos

Connie



And of course, Condi

[hippiechick]

17. Shudder

They're both :scared:

[goclark]

30. Connie in person is lovely

I happen to think she is not scary in the photo above.

[RebelOne]

33. I agree. Some people just like to bash other's looks.

[AspenRose]

40. Dare I say it?

Sometimes people are frightened/afraid of (intimidated by) strong black women.

Not pointing fingers at anyone specifically, but it's not unusual to get that kind of response.

There, I said it.

[rucky]

24. Have they ever been seen in the same place at once?

:tinfoil:

maybe they're the same person?

[Just Me]

20. I LUV IT!!! *waives madly* Hi ya' Connie!!!!

:hi: I hope you read DU!!!

[mzmolly]

21. Constance was an advisor to the Clinton admin if I correctly recall.

She's a very brilliant woman, and highly interesting to watch.

[wryter2000]

22. I've read her before

She's great!

[rucky]

23. So is all this crazy Neoconism just a result of sibling rivlary...

gone amok?

[stevietheman]

28. 2008: Connie vs. Condi! :) n/t

n/t

[mandyky]

29. I love Connie!

Since the GOP takeover of the media they rarely have her on MSM, but she used to be on a lot.

[Nia Zuri]

31. Identical cousins!!! Like Patty/Cathy in the old Patty Duke show

When cousins aren't two of a kind!!!!

[hippywife]

37. Not identical at all!

Connie is beautiful and articulate.

[intheflow]

35. Connie Rice NPR Commentary: Top 10 'Taboo' Things Said about Baghdad

NPR Commemtary: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3864954

I first heard her on on The Charlie Rose Show. She was just awesome! :thumbsup:

[Lisa]

36. Cool! I really wish that * had messed up on the nomination forms ...

... and accidentally written Constance's name down instead! Then SHE would be Sec of State.

[AspenRose]

39. She was great on "Now" on PBS...that's where I first saw her.

eom

[Starbucks Anarchist]

41. Great quote here:

http://adamash.blogspot.com/2005/10/did-you-know-about-condi-rices-cousin.html

Condoleezza Rice’s cousin, Connie, was "brought up in the segregationist South with the same family belief that children could educate themselves out of their circumstances. Both of them did just that, after which Condi Rice chose the board of Chevron oil, the invasion of Iraq and right-wing Republicanism; Connie Rice studied law, joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and has her own views on capitalism: ‘It’s not an invisible hand, it’s an invisible penis, and my clients always get screwed.’