While announcing his nomination of Condoleeza Rice for secretary of state, Bush’s neocon speechwriters included the mandatory line about how Rice, who is the exact same age as myself, “grew up in the segregated South,” which he then portrayed as some kind of Nazi hell. But if it was so hellish, how on earth did she easily excell in school, become a concert-caliber pianist, go on to the University of Denver and Stanford, and to the White House before she was 40? I grew up in the Segregated North at the same time where, I guarantee you, white racism was … Continue reading The Segregated North