"This was about race, not class,...Well, it was about class, too"

[Ian Murray]

[How important is it for us to understand someone who makes Maddy
Halfbright look even dumber?]

Lessons of Might and Right
How Segregation and an Indomitable Family Shaped National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice
By Dale Russakoff
Sunday, September 9, 2001; Page W23
Page 1 of 2

LONG AGO, in segregated Birmingham, on the children's floor of a
downtown department store, a white saleslady spotted an exquisitely
dressed black mother heading with her young daughter for fitting rooms
reserved for whites only. The year was 1961, and downtown Birmingham
was an apartheid society, with blacks assigned inferior status in
where they ate, where they relieved themselves, even where little
girls tried on pretty dresses.
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