I read Pam Spaulding's blog, Pam's House Blend, on a daily basis, just as I do DailyKos. I'm bisexual; the issues that concern the GLBT community are my issues. I've lost friends to AIDS, watched other friends lose their children in custody battles because they were lesbian, and watched in disbelief as hordes of people seek to assert that a person is unfit to raise a child or marry--or worse, is on a par with someone who sodomizes animals!--because they are gay or bisexual.
And Pam's a damn good writer, too.
Recently, she commented on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's statement on Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race. I was struck by the fact that Rice actually made such a statement. So was Pam. And Pam made a grim prediction.
Rice made the following comment to "editors and reporters" at the Washington Times:
"Black Americans were a founding population," she said. "Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together - Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That's not a very pretty reality of our founding."
As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, "descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that."
"That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today," she said.
Miss Rice declined to comment on the campaign, saying only that it was "important" that Mr. Obama "gave it for a whole host of reasons."
I applaud Rice for saying this. Too often, for the GOP racism is the real elephant in the parlor: everyone can see that it's there, and they'd like to pretend it isn't.
But Pam made the following comment to the diary she posted on Rice's remarks:
I'm sure that many on the right are not happy with her blunt assessment about the need to address race, it's hardly an issue for the Bill Kristols on the right who are running screaming with their pants on fire from the matter. I can only imagine what the Freepi (who worship Condi) are saying right now.
Wonder no more.
The Freepi Turn On Ms. Rice.
Here's a selection of quotes, again from Pam's diary--I refuse to give any traffic to that site:
Ms. Rice.....your forefathers were betrayed by their brothers....and sold into slavery. The white man brought them here to help settle this country..... and God blessed you in that white men helped set them free......so you could be blessed even more......by being born to live in the greatest nation on earth....with freedom and prosperity.
She's got bad teeth, no boobs and loves the Palestinians and other enemies of Israel and the U.S.! How could ANY patriot want Sleeza for VP?
I didn't realize Rice was hoping to run with Obama, yet that's how bad these comments are. This is a sad commentary. I used to respect this woman. Just dang...
Racism of a couple a hundred years ago is a birth defect? Well honey, you just made the case for euthanasia. What a maroon.
Ms Rice, you're a typical RINO. Yes your people came here as Negro slaves, were freed by the courage of one true Republican but then again enslaved to a new Master - the Federal government which drugged your people back into submission with handouts that sent a message that "You're incapable of making life better for yourself; you need government in order to survive." So Ms Rice, direct your comments to the Democrat party and its co-leader Barak Hussein Obama and his socialism and what it means for your people. Oh, one last question, can you tell us why the Asian Americans and Latino Americans in the same span of time that the "Great Society" has been in place, have managed to integrate themselves into societal entrepreneurship so effectively - why is having dark skin more of a handicap than having slanted eyes or being unable to speak the language?
Is she getting ready to back the candidacy of B. Hussein Obama, or what????
clue condi seems to have been praying at the alter of rev run wright and b. HUSSEIN'S racist church...no wonder clue condi is such a fan of the f'n pali muzzie terrorists and wants to fund their terrorism of Israel...jorge bush should get rid of this incompetent...and many republicans want this a-hole as a VP???
No doubt... I wonder if Rice spoke of these things and the reporters at the Times ignored those parts of the interview, or if she even bothered to address those issues at all... I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt as a fellow conservative, but I'd like to hear her say SOMETHING about this - perhaps a personal press release, a speech, or something where we can hear everything she has to say and not just what the MSM chooses to print???
What scares me about all of this is I'm beginning to wonder if the Dems did this (pushed Obama forward) on purpose in an attempt to keep the Black Community under their thumbs and set back the progress they have achieved over the last 40 years? And, no doubt, the MSM loves anything that bleeds - even if it's our own citizens, so I'm sure they'd love nothing better than to drive a further wedge between people just HOPING for something juicy to sell papers with - like a riot...
As far as I'm concerned, she just jumped the shark.
I guess all the talk of her intelligence and education was just hype. Just like HRC.
Condi is another mealy mouth dufus. In pure pander mode. This is the least racist nation on the planet. Tons of affirmative action and welfare money available. If you don't like it GTFO. Find a better place to live like Zimbabwe maybe
Maybe she should go back to Africa, where she could get a "founding" experience.
Thank you, Pam, for first posting this.
It's interesting to see this group, which so wholeheartedly demands loyalty to its chosen Leader, turn viciously on someone who's been considered one of their own. Stomach-turning, like watching hyenas eat their own, but interesting.
And heartbreaking.
If you loaded the Freepi onto a garbage scow heaped high with the rotting detritus of every major city in America, tied them down to it, and set it off to sea on course towards the worst maritime storm ever seen . . . honestly, would any of them ever be missed? For all they've contributed to society, would it matter so much as a pile of roach shit?