Rice: Obama's Run Shows Black Progress

[The Straight Story]

Rice: Obama's Run Shows Black Progress

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appealing and says it won't be much longer before race isn't a barrier to becoming president.


Obama is a top-tier contender among Democrats and his wide support early in the 2008 race "just shows that we've come a very long way," Rice said Sunday. She and the Illinois senator are Black.


"I do think we've come a long way in overcoming stereotypes, role stereotypes about African-Americans. I will say race is still a factor. When a person walks into a room, I still think people still see race," Rice said.


"But it's less and less of a barrier to believing that that person can be your doctor or your lawyer or a professor in your university or the CEO of a company. And it will not be long, I think, before it's no longer a barrier to being president of the United States," Rice said. Rice, a Republican, has said repeatedly she will not run for president despite high popularity ratings and measurable support in opinion polls.


She noted that if she were to continue as secretary of state through the end of President Bush's term in January 2009, "we will not have had a white male secretary of state for 12 years a white woman, Black man and a Black woman. That says something about how far our country has come, even though we can't deceive ourselves. Race is still a factor in this country."

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[Deep13]

1. Forget it, Condi.

Ain't never gonna happen. No way, no how, never.

[benld74]

2. And when anyone from this administration,,,

walks into a room, I think people still see liars!