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NYDem Observer (216 posts) Mon Sep-08-08 08:25 PMOriginal message Wow, whats gotten into Condoleezza! Advertisements [?]I'm glad she is finally starting to tell it like it is. Wouldn't be surprised if she was a closet Obama supporter. Rice: Not enough blacks at State DepartmentWASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday there are too few black Americans in the State Department.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is greeted Monday by Stillman College President Ernest McNealey."I have lamented that I can go into a meeting at the Department of State -- and as a matter fact I can go into a whole day of meetings at the Department of State -- and actually rarely see somebody who looks like me. And that is just not acceptable," Rice said.She was delivering the keynote speech at the annual Conference of the White House Initiative on National Historically Black Colleges and Universities."Like so many African-Americans who were fortunate enough to have the benefits of education and all the access that I have had, my story starts with parents and aunts and uncles, and indeed in my case a grandparent, who got their start at historically black colleges," Rice said.She praised partnerships between federal government departments and agencies and black colleges.Last year, such colleges received $5 million in scholarships and grants from the State Department for language training, study abroad and exchange programs."It's good for the students, but it is good for America, too," she said. "Because when I go around the world, I want to see black Americans involved in the promotion and development of our foreign policy. I want to see a Foreign Service that looks as if black Americans are part of this great country." http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/08/rice.blacks.stat...
Bush is opening doors with a diverse CabinetBy Susan Page, USA TODAYWASHINGTON — With little fanfare and not much credit, President Bush has appointed a more diverse set of top advisers than any president in history.In his first term, Bush matched the record that President Clinton set in his first term for appointing women and people of color to the Cabinet, and Bush had a more diverse inner circle at the White House. Since his re-election last month, the president has made a series of groundbreaking nominations.>>>"Bush did not go out and say, 'I'm going to create an administration that looks like America,' which is how Clinton led off," says Paul Light, a political scientist at New York University who has studied presidential appointments. "He has just gone about recruiting a diverse Cabinet as an ordinary act. >>>Among Washington insiders, what's more significant is the demographics of a more amorphous group: the aides and advisers whose counsel Bush trusts most. He is the first president whose innermost circle — the people he relies on in a crunch — includes a woman other than his wife. Among Bush's closest aides are Karen Hughes and Rice. Hughes, a veteran of his Texas campaigns and a onetime White House aide who is now an outside adviser, is one of the few willing and able to tell Bush when she thinks he has erred. Rice, a foreign policy aide in the 2000 campaign who worked in the White House for Bush's father, has become like a member of the Bush family. Even some Democrats grumbled during the presidential campaign that Bush had more African-Americans and Hispanics among his closest advisers than did Democratic challenger John Kerry, who won a majority of black and Hispanic votes.http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-09-diverse-usat_x.htm
