I don’t think it’s merely a speech “gloss over.” After the speech, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post noted that he has had many a conversation with Rice about their shared backgrounds and that the two fundamentally disagree about how things went down back in the day. Apparently, Rice really does believe that America essentially realized one day that segregation was bad and then righted the ship. What makes this really crazy is that one of the victims of the Alabama church bombing wasn’t simply her age, but was a friend.
Some folks have to put a haze on things to keep from being endlessly angry. From what I recall, Rice’s father is pretty much the quintessential angry black man. Perhaps squinting her eyes half shut to avoid the harsh truths is her way to avoid becoming endlessly aggrieved. If so, I pity her inability to reconcile facing the truth with being able to move on from it, but I don’t forgive her continued insistence in foisting her fantasy of history on the rest of us.
Rice has made a very comfortable career out of being a token or fig leaf for the establishment. That was why she was quick to take the membership in the Augusta Golf Club when it was offered to her. They know she will show up for the Masters and be seen. Then she she won’t be around to bother the old boys. She knows her place.
I don’t think it’s merely a speech “gloss over.” After the speech, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post noted that he has had many a conversation with Rice about their shared backgrounds and that the two fundamentally disagree about how things went down back in the day. Apparently, Rice really does believe that America essentially realized one day that segregation was bad and then righted the ship. What makes this really crazy is that one of the victims of the Alabama church bombing wasn’t simply her age, but was a friend.
Some folks have to put a haze on things to keep from being endlessly angry. From what I recall, Rice’s father is pretty much the quintessential angry black man. Perhaps squinting her eyes half shut to avoid the harsh truths is her way to avoid becoming endlessly aggrieved. If so, I pity her inability to reconcile facing the truth with being able to move on from it, but I don’t forgive her continued insistence in foisting her fantasy of history on the rest of us.
Rice has made a very comfortable career out of being a token or fig leaf for the establishment. That was why she was quick to take the membership in the Augusta Golf Club when it was offered to her. They know she will show up for the Masters and be seen. Then she she won’t be around to bother the old boys. She knows her place.