A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state.
John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration.
Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an "Uncle Tom" — a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.
As for Rice, "they're using her for an illusion of inclusion," he said, adding that he feels her history as national security adviser showed a lack of competence.
Such utter frustration from the Left after losing this election. To say that Rice is the "illusion of inclusion" or that she is subservient ignores the reality that Democrats have always put blacks into lowly cabinet departments so that the adminstration will look like America. Joycelyn Elders was a big disgrace for example. Here Bush appoints someone black to the most important cabinet position and it is somehow regarded as suspect. It's too bad for liberals that the most competent diversity candidates are Republicans.
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