[San Jacinto]

Stay in school, work hard, trust in God, and yes, you - a little black girl from Birmingham, Alabama - might actually move into the White House. One can only imagine the howls of laughter this would have elicited from the Rice's white neighbours.

An ignorant and racist comment from the author. It is Black peers who "howl with derisive laughter" at any sugestion that America is anything but an evil enterprise. Black children who exhibit the values taught to Condi by her parents are ridiculed by their peers as "being too white."

[mafree]

..Black children who exhibit the values taught to Condi by her parents are ridiculed by their peers as "being too white."..

Only in some circles- many Black children still grow up with the values Condi did. Even some of us whose families were different politically did. Don't take a few anecdotes and apply them to the whole group.