That Girl?

Ignoring the "mammy/house nigger" type rhetoric that even Condi's own dish out here, I'm kinda pissed that President Mugabe called the most powerful black woman in the world "that girl." After some French diplomat made some comment about her trip to Europe being "operation seduction", I'm wondering how much respect the first black woman to hold the position of Secretary of State of the United States is going to be able to garner. I wasn't paying enough attention when Madeline Albright served in that capacity so perhaps I missed what I consider to be sexist remarks during her tenure. Colin Powell didn't seem to have any problems as a black man either. Unfortunately, I think that Ms. Rice is going to catch double heat for being a black woman. Apparently, you can be one (a woman) or the other (black) but not both:

"President Robert Mugabe on Friday sharply criticised US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying she was a 'slave' to white masters in Washington who had branded Zimbabwe an outpost of tyranny.

Launching the election campaign of his ruling party, Mugabe referred to Rice as 'that girl born out of the slave ancestry, who should know from the history of slavery in America, from the president situation of blacks in America that the white man is not a friend'.

'The white man is the slave master to her,' said Mugabe in a two-hour speech launching the campaign of his Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) party for the March 31 parliamentary elections."

Just a reminder. I don't agree with Condoleezza Rice nor do I appreciate that she is a loyal guardian of Geroge W. Bush and his doctrine. But, I think she is brilliant enough to have concluded that she agrees with him and the neo-con's mis-guided foreign policy on her own. She's no slave. She's a co-conspiritor, collaborator and partner and she is glad about it.
link from afronetizen.com