I am trying to remember how Condolezza Rice survived the racist hatred of the

[mfcorey1]

Confederate remnants in the Rethuglican party.

[lillypaddle]

1. I don't remember her getting any

but maybe I've just forgotten.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "No one could possibly have imagined..." - Condi (R)

"That I would be such a Total RepubliCorporate Homelander Toady FAIL Freak. Kiss my grits, America. Smirk."

- Condi (R)

[enough]

4. She was no threat to their world-view. She had no actual power.

Oops, I meant to reply to the OP.

[Lint Head]

3. Torturing, murdering and killing innocent civilians doesn't care

what color you are.

[kcks]

5. Maybe

it is because they are not racists.

[babylonsister]

6. LOL! Have you seen teabagger signs? Did you type that

with a straight face? :silly:

[Pab Sungenis]

13. I think it's just someone

sending out for pizza. Don't feed the trolls.

[babylonsister]

14. Can't I play with them a little? nt

[Count Olaf]

23. The corporate meda and certain other entities have an interest in pushing the racism meme

That is why the media shows the signs that are racist and mispelled and generally idiotic.

If we realized that we have more in common that we do differences...we are all mad at our corrupt government, the bailouts, the national debt created by wars, NAFTA, illegal spying, the patriot act...and if we united and realized there are more of us then there are of them...well we wouldn't be able to be controlled would we? And that would be a big problem for the ruling class.

[JoePhilly]

7. Here's is how my "typical white grandmother" would have explained it ...

"She's one of the good ones."

Sadly, my grandmother (now deceased) used that phrase on many occasions, not in reference to Rice, but in regards to other blacks who she saw as "the good ones".

She also, in private company, would use the N-word. My sister and I would challenge her, and she would explain how she was not being racist by using that term.

She really believed that she saw everyone as equal, and that she could tell "the good ones" from "the bad ones". Oh, and most of them, in her view, were "the bad ones" to whom the N-word was appropriately applied.

On edit: My sense is that many in the Tea Party fit this model.

[Ineeda]

8. Exactly like my parents....

Dad from Texas, Mom from Boston so geography had nothing to do with it. Blacks were either "colored" or the N word. They learned not to use that word around 'civilized society' but in her later years, in a nursing home where most of the caregivers were black, Mom reverted. She was actually frightened by black people which was embarrassing and very sad. BTW, the caregivers reassured us that they didn't take it personally, given her age, slight dementia, etc. But how could one not take it personally? Politically, they loved "Ronnie" but were otherwise fairly sensible.

[ejpoeta]

9. i think you are right. the good ones vs the bad ones. that must be the ones

who know their place and the ones that cause trouble.... what's the word? uppity. i hate that word and have told people i don't want that used around my kids.

[Fuzz]

10. Explained very well.

[Pab Sungenis]

12. If you want to take it a step further

she was a "House --" as opposed to a "field --." That's the way the racists saw her. She was loyal and cultured and useful, so she deserved less scorn in their eyes.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. My late father-in-law had a similar attitude. He denied being racist by stating

"I've known some good n*****s" and truly believed that he was not prejudiced. I will have to say that I never saw or heard any threatening or hateful actions or utterances towards people of other races, but the superiority of the white race was an ingrained mindset and just part of his personality. He was, basically, a good, honest, hardworking man who was respected by both his black and white neighbors in the small community where he had lived all his life.

[The_Commonist]

11. I think it's because her husb... er... the president...

...shielded her from the hatred.
And as someone above mentioned, "she was one of the good ones."
Meaning she was just as rotten to the core as the rest of that gang.

[Bonhomme Richard]

16. Simple. She answered to white guys and did what they told her. n/t

[lunatica]

17. She wasn't President

Very few people know even who the Vice President is, much less the Secretary of State. Do you think that because no teabaggers go after Hillary now that she would be respected if she were President? The silence about Hillary has been a blessed relief but there would be as much misogyny if she were President as there is racism against Obama now.

[dipsydoodle]

18. Maybe there was a halo effect

created by Ms Rice always being so well presented when representing the USA unlike someone else I can think of who often looks like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards.

[WinkyDink]

19. She was under the aegis of her husb....the President.

[zbdent]

20. to use a Repugniconvict term ...

she was a "useful idiot" ...

so she can play piano ... big fat hairy deal ...

[T Wolf]

21. The GOP loves their "Toms" and there will always be "people" who sell out their own for

(perceived) power or money.

And, as others have pointed out - from the reich's perspective, when they can identify "one of the good ones" it proves that they are not racist.

[Historic NY]

22. She was the WH lawn jockey....plain & simple to show off.

[Count Olaf]

24. And Colin Powell?

Certainly Bush was not pushing the racism meme.

Teabaggers were started during the Bush administration by Ron Paul people that were unhappy with Bush and the Republican party.

Now why would someone try to make their protests all about racism I wonder...