I remember saying a while ago that segregation couldn't have been that bad if Condoleezza Rice grew up skating and playing the piano. Well, Barbara Walters asks Rice a "personal question", which made Rice a little nervous for a while. But for once, Waters was on target asking her "How did you make the climb from segregation to Secretary [of State]?"
Rice says immediately: "Parents."
This brought several thoughts to mind. Firstly, it shows the importance of a cohesive family. In Rice's case, she had two dedicated parents, working as a family, to make their child's life productive. Imagine what this says about the single mother disaster. Ann Coulter, on the same show some weeks earlier, says single motherhood is the underlying problem for the destructive ways of children born in such circumstances, many of whom are black. This cult of the single mother, which is really about anti-male and anti-family positions by liberals and leftists, is especially destroying young blacks around America.
The second thing this brought to mind is how Rice never acknowledges that the American society, despite its segregation laws, still gave her so many opportunities, including such good enough education that allowed her to reach this pinnacle in her career. What if she and her parents had been in Jamaica, which gained independence around the time segregation was abolished in the States? How would she have fared there?
You can watch Barbara Walter's question, and Rice's answer starting around the 3:00 minute point in the Youtube video.
