Condi Rice palled around with Black Panthers and Nation of Islam

[Enrique]

Someone tell Sarah Palin! Someone tell Dinesh D'Souza! :scared:

http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/condoleezza-rice-talks-race-relationships-in-book/19673921

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"I grew up in a politically complex family and sometimes it is almost sanitized to 'Oh she's a Republican, she's conservative,' " Rice said. "My father was a conservative Republican but spent a lot of time giving voice to black radicals like Stokely Carmichael."


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John Rice "lionized" King but, as a college administrator in Alabama and later at the University of Denver, he gravitated toward controversial figures. There was Carmichael, who later joined the Black Panthers, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, though, Rice hastens to add, that was "prior to his going way off."

In her book, Rice writes that her father "was fascinated with the radical side of black politics" and, "Years later, when so much attention was paid to then-Senator Obama's radical associations, I wondered what might have been made of the people who sat at our dinner table."


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[H2O Man]

1. Oh, deer!

She always seemed suspicious.

Recommended.

[Pirate Smile]

2. I'll give her some credit for bringing that up and making that comparison. It's a good point.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Would have been nice if she actually brought this up at the time

that Obama was actually getting attacked over "associations" during the campaign.

[leveymg]

4. I wonder if she was an FBI or a CIA informant against the BPO?

The story about how she came to be embraced by the Bush organization must have some interesting side bars. She really reminds me of her colleague and coauthor, 9/11 Commission Staff Director, Phillip Zelikow.

I may just read her book to see what else might be written between the lines. Her account of the visit that Tenet, Black and Blee paid her on July 11, 2001 might be an interesting contrast to their stories.

[Supersedeas]

5. so, is she saying that it wasn't right to question Obama in that way...or lucky for me?

[marmar]

6. Before she started palling around with actual terrorists......