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\"Condoleezza<\/a>
Young Condoleezza Rice [L}<\/figcaption><\/figure>It is shocking to learn that Condoleezza Rice has endorsed Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions<\/a> for US Attorney General. The former Secretary of State’s decision to support Sessions is incongruous and bizarre, to say the least, especially given Rice\u2019s personal, childhood history with racism and racial violence. Here\u2019s some background.<\/p>\n

For starters, Sessions has a troubling history of racial insensitivity\u2014a history that prevented him from being confirmed for a federal judgeship in 1986.<\/p>\n

Specifically, according to Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony during hearings, in March and May 1986, that Sessions had made racist remarks and called the NAACP and ACLU “un-American.” [Read the Washington Post\u2019s fact-check of these allegations here.]<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Figures, a black assistant US attorney who worked for Sessions, testified that Sessions called him “boy” on multiple occasions and joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying that he thought Klan members were “OK, until he learned that they smoked marijuana.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More recently, writing on behalf of 200 campaign groups, the Leadership Conference on Human Rights said, with regard to Sessions\u2019 nomination for Attorney General in the Trump administration:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Senator Sessions has a 30-year record of racial insensitivity, bias against immigrants, disregard for the rule of law and hostility to the protection of civil rights that makes him unfit to serve as the attorney general of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> recently issued this statement:<\/p>\n

We cannot support his nomination to be the country\u2019s next attorney general.\u00a0Senator Sessions not only has been a leading opponent of sensible, comprehensive immigration reform, he has associated with anti-immigrant groups we consider to be deeply racist, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform<\/a> and the Center for Security Policy<\/a>. If our country is to move forward, we must put all forms of racism behind us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if all of that history isn\u2019t reason enough for Rice to at least abstain from speaking out for Sessions, consider this:<\/p>\n

Condoleeza Rice was 8 years old when, in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, an infamous church bombing<\/a> killed four young girls, one of whom was a friend of hers. In an article published in 2013, Rice recalled that the bombing was life-changing for her, destroying her sense of safety and security.<\/p>\n

One outcome of the bombing was the deaths of four young girls at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan members \u201cgarnered national support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, in turn, led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And Senator Sessions has a very poor record with regard to voting rights.<\/p>\n

According to Huffington Post,<\/a><\/p>\n

Sessions has called the Voting Rights Act \u201ca piece of intrusive legislation\u201d and applauded the Supreme Court\u2019s 2013 decision to gut the law\u2019s key Section 5. As the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama in the 1980s, he led a failed prosecution of three civil rights activists who conducted a voter registration drive.<\/p>\n

The Voting Rights Act is \u201cone of the country\u2019s most critical pieces of civil and voting rights legislation,\u201d said Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn,\u00a0yet Sessions would put it on the \u201cchopping block.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis past statements and actions indicate that if confirmed as attorney general he would fail to fully uphold the Voting Rights Act as it stands today,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that\u2019s why I\u2019m shocked. Apparently, Condoleezza Rice has decided that it\u2019s more important to be a loyal, fall-in-line Republican and support Sessions than it is to stand up for what\u2019s right, or be true to her own history.<\/p>\n

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