Condoleeza's Crimes

[DenverDem]

"Although the 9/11 Commission will not lay a glove on her, Condoleezza Rice is finished as a Black political asset of the White Man's (War) Party. Colin Powell, a much smarter and cagier opportunist, will likely escape this administration still clutching his devalued aura, having hoarded some small measure of political capital for himself. This is not true for Condoleezza Rice. Her complete and abject identification with her master leaves Rice with nothing of her own to claim.
"Don't write her political epitaph yet," says commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson. If Hutchinson means that Rice will always have a job with the Bush family (she served the father, too) or with Chevron-Texaco Oil (where she worked between Bushes), then we agree. Rice's selfless renderings to the white and wealthy have earned her a lifetime of more of the same. Should she crack under the weight of her own and her masters' lies' as sometimes seems imminent, there is a commodious attic in one of the Bush domiciles where "Condi" can be safely stored.

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In the false glow of their delusions, Republicans truly believed that Condoleezza Rice was the ultimate political asset, a Black woman who could by her presence wash them clean of racist stench, and then perform the same ablution the next day, and the next. Rice made it easy for the super-privileged to love themselves. Unlike coy Colin Powell, Rice did not bargain or seek her own space, but settled into the very fabric of Bushness. In so doing, however, Rice lost all power of personal agency. Having surrendered everything to the Bushes, her Blackness gradually lost its value as a cloak for her patrons' racism."

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[pinto]

1. "the very fabric of Bushness"......good phrase.

[countmyvote4real]

2. No tears here for anybody serving *

And * may not be the real master. That could be another costume his masters have given him. You know, like pilot, rancher and President*.

If either of them are at all human, they must feel stuck in their sucker costume cause that one's for real.