Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding.
"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." Read the rest...
What I disagree with here, is her statement that she supported Bush because of No Child Left Behind. If she really believed it would help poor and minority children, she was very ignorant. From the time it was first proposed, professional educators (and not just rank and file teachers) criticized it as bad policy that would hurt low income children the most. Frankly, I think Condi's being disingenuous making this claim.
(One of these days soon I am going to write a post specifically about NCLB.)Anyway, this article makes me wonder who Condi supports for president. Interesting.
