It's impossible to say whether Rice's climb to power would have been different if she wasn't black or a woman.

I will say that part of your letter almost felt like you were saying that single mothers and those on welfare are only a black problem. This isn't the case.

I agree that color should represent nothing when it comes to how successful a person can be.

truth,

Whether the letter author intended to suggest this was a black problem only or not, the fact remains that his prescription for success is valid regardless of race or ethnicity. A child's best chance for success in life is being raised in a loving, two-parent family, with both parents demanding your best from the beginning, and getting an education, getting a job, avoiding drugs and trouble with the law. The problem with that is that the vast majority of children being born today will not have the benefit of that environment, black or white. A recent statistic showed that 1/2 of the children in our country today will go to bed tonight with only a single mother living in the house. What are the odds that those children will grow up to be successful in life? And, given the fact that new births to single mothers (without regard to race)are rapidly approaching 50%, this problem is going to become even worse in the future, approaching crisis proportions.

Robinson's problem with Ms.Rice is that she has left the plantation.

Dear Robert:

This is one of the best responses I've yet seen to the unconsionable attacks on Ms. Rice by other blacks. This merely proves how far out of the mainstream most blacks are, and why they lag behind every other group in every measurable achievement category (except for sports). They continue to let themselves be brainswashed by the race hustling pimps like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Julian Bond, et,al who make their living by keeping racial strife alive.

They can't seem to figure out that after a lifetime of voting for Democrats they are still complaining about the same problems they complained about 40 years ago. What Democrat has evder made a black person Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or Sec of State, or National Security Adviser? None, not even their beloved, first black president, William Jefferson Clinton Lewinsky.

tmoschetti

this place gets scarier every day. if you want to talk about work ethic, etc involving african americans in government, look to colin powell. he saw the lies and crap that were going on and that he was coerced into being involved with and stopped. Condoloser did not.

Contridicting some earlier folks who have posted, Tony Morton basically let's each of us know who the more intuitive, perceptive, and intelligent African-American person in high leadership position in the Federal Government really is!

Thanks for that Tony!

Shalom