Is Susan Rice any relation to Condi?

[CatWoman]

Susan will be the new ambassador to the UN.

[ErinBerin84]

1. no relation.

(unless this is a joke OP question that I didn't catch).

[ananda]

3. Yes, they were both born human..

.. though Condi lost her humanity way back.

[CatWoman]

4. No joke

when I saw that Susan was african american, I just had to ask :shrug:

[JackBeck]

2. No.

I checked her wiki the other day and it explicitly says they are not related.

[Rosco T.]

5. No Susan is a Human Being, so not even the same species as Condi. n/m

[CatWoman]

6. LOL

Have you seen Swampy's pics?

Condi is The Lizard Queen :rofl:

[ellacott]

7. No relation but Condi does have a progressive relative

She a civil rights advocate and a civil rights attorney. Her name is Connie Rice.

http://www.caforward.org/about/profile?id=1650
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Rice

[rurallib]

9. just going to post this

Connie has been on Moyers several times. Last I remember she said that she and Condi seldom speak anymore.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Thanks for the info. I knew I had seen her before in interviews, but

I couldn't remember her name.

[MasonJar]

8. Actually Condi has a sister, who is quite liberal and sensible. I saw her

interviewed on PBS a few years back, but I cannot remember which show, perhaps Bill Moyers' NOW. I think her name is Constance.

[ellacott]

10. Cousin

She's not her sister. She used to be a regular on the Tavis Smiley show.

[CatWoman]

11. see the thread above you

:)

but I thought Condi was an only child? :shrug:

Maybe it's a cousin? :shrug:

[rurallib]

12. I think she is Condi's first or second cousin.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. I thought she was Condi's cousin. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Not related to Condi in any way, shape or form...

although both share some interesting similarities:

Both have a connection to Stanford - Susan attended the university while Condi taught there.

Both just celebrated their birthdays in November. In fact, they're exactly ten years and three days apart - Condi's birthdate is November 14, 1954 and Susan's is November 17, 1964.

Both are African American women who have risen to prominent roles in the white-male-dominated field of foreign policy - Condi as Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, and Susan as Assistant Secretary of State under Bill Clinton Both had 'firsts' associated with their tenure - Condi was the first African American female Secretary of State, while Susan worked directly under the first female Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who coincidentally happens to be an old family friend.

Both grew up in a cultured, privileged household with parents who were college-educated.

Both attended an all-female high school.

Beyond that, Susan is not a fan of Condoleezza Rice. As the New York Sun reports:

Like Mr. Obama, Ms. Rice has long been a fierce critic of the Bush administration's foreign policy, and she does not look to Secretary Rice as a role model.

"I don't select role models on the basis of race and gender," she said in a telephone interview. She praised the two previous secretaries of state, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, but she said the jury was still out on Secretary Rice's tenure.

http://womensissues.about.com/b/2008/12/01/who-is-susan-rice-and-why-did-obama-nominate-her-and-is-she-related-to-condi-rice.htm

She is gonna kick some ass unlike Condi........ Watch for a new revolutionary direction
for the UN and using it diplomatically to confront world problems.

[ecstatic]

17. interesting similarities. I take it Susan is single too

:shrug:

[Uzybone]

18. no, married, 2 kids.

n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. You must have missed her speak along with Hillary and others today

Where she mentioned her husband and child.

Anyway she is someone we should admire:
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/janfeb/articles/rice.html

[phleshdef]

16. Yea, about as related as Obama is to Cheney.