"America was born with a birth defect. It was slavery."

[pnwmom]

Well said, Condoleezza Rice. But the part you got wrong yesterday is that the struggle is not complete.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/332307-condoleezza-rice-says-america-was-born-with-a-birth-defect-slavery?rnd=1494186655

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice compared slavery to a birth defect on Sunday.

"We forget in the United States how long it has taken us to make 'We the People' mean people like me. And indeed, I do think that America was born with a birth defect; it was slavery,” she said in a CBS interview aired Sunday.

She said the country "wasn't quite complete" before the civil rights movement that took shape in the 1960s. Rice, who grew up in Alabama, a state harshly affected by Jim Crow laws, called it "the second founding of America.”

"And so I do think that when we were finally able to deliver the promise of the Constitution to people like me, little girls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, when finally my father was able to vote without difficulty, yes, it's the second founding of America. The first founding wasn't quite complete,” she continued.

[Blues Heron]

1. No Condi - it was deliberate

Nice try letting the Slavers off the hook though. Nice whitewash.

[SamKnause]

2. Did she forget to mention the genocide of the indigenous Native Americans ??????????

This history of the United States is disgraceful !!!

It is not politically correct to say any bad about this country or you will be labeled anti patriotic.

The history of this country is soul crushing.

What this country has done to Latin America is soul crushing.

What this country has done to countries around the globe is soul crushing.

We NEVER were the beacon on the hill.

[brush]

3. Spot on. Dealings with POCs always always disastrous for POCs but blihtely swept under the rug...

on the way to the next conquest of wealth gathering for the elite — the elite only, not the unwashed and brainwashed.