March 29, 2005
THE PACKAGE:
Rice's tough-minded yet temperate style apparent in Asia visit (Richard Halloran, Mar 29, 2005, Taipei Times)
A South Korean journalist in Seoul last weekend asked the visiting US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice a pointed question about how she coped with a bureaucracy staffed largely with white men.Rice neither sidestepped the query nor brushed it away but took it head-on.
She reminded the questioner that neither of her predecessors, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright, had been white men, then asserted: "I'm a package, I'm black and female and me."
"I think I act as Condi Rice, and that's a person who is female and black and grew up in Alabama and lived in California and was a professor," she said.
She noted that her ancestors had been slaves but that "we're making a lot of progress in the United States."
Yeah, we moved on from that whole slavery deal... Posted by Orrin Judd at March 29, 2005 7:37 AM
Too bad our Secretary of State didn't ask the reporter how he coped with working with a clutch of addled twits.
Posted by: Luciferous at March 29, 2005 9:44 AMWell, since the questioner is South Korean, I suppose te equivalent would be if Ms. Rice asked him to please not try and eat Barney, the White House dog, if he goes to cover President Bush in Washington.
Posted by: John at March 29, 2005 10:18 AM
Has anyone ever asked her a question she didn't answer perfectly?
Posted by: Tom at March 30, 2005 8:11 PMThe one where she referred to W as "my husband"
Posted by: oj at March 30, 2005 8:13 PM