{"id":79,"date":"2003-08-08T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2003-08-09T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-08-08T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2003-08-09T00:00:06","slug":"condi-rice-anti-empire-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/08\/condi-rice-anti-empire-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Condi Rice: Anti-Empire = Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20030807\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/rice_1\" title=\"Dr. Rice\">Dr. Rice<\/a> apparently never read my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/barganier\/ba031003.html\" title=\"\"Collateral Damage\" debut\">&#8220;Collateral Damage&#8221; debut<\/a>. Speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists:<\/p>\n<p><i>National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq&#8217;s halting steps toward self-government to black Americans&#8217; struggle for civil rights, imploring black journalists Thursday to reject arguments that some people are incapable of democracy. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]e must never, ever indulge in the condescending voices who allege that some people in Africa or in the Middle East are just not interested in freedom, they&#8217;re culturally just not ready for freedom or they just aren&#8217;t ready for freedom&#8217;s responsibilities.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Uhh&#8211; who&#8217;s saying that? As I put the problem 5 months ago,<\/p>\n<p><i>Since the U.S. insists on policies that galvanize Islamic fundamentalism, who do you think will be elected in a democratic Iraq, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia?<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rice apparently never read my &#8220;Collateral Damage&#8221; debut. Speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists: National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq&#8217;s halting steps toward self-government to black Americans&#8217; struggle for civil rights, imploring black journalists Thursday to reject arguments that some people are incapable of democracy. [&#8230;] &#8220;[W]e must never, ever indulge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}