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Condoleezza
Rice-(part-two)
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This has left
a scar of humiliation in her. She has also seen other act complete debar in
circus, local amusement park, hotel room and even served stale food in the
restaurant on account of her skin color. Though she was kid was but this
discrimination was burning like fire in her consciousness. She was aware
about the civil right struggle taking place in Birmingham and used to
enquire about the incident from her neighbor as her parents used to keep her
away from all these news.
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But she also recounted
all these incidents where she has said that she just hate that
segregation era in the history of United States but many a times she was
enclosed in the premises of her home from the scare of bombing in the
street. These kinds of deprivation are very detrimental to the normal
growth of the child but when human being faces extremes in their
respective lives then only they are being forced to think out of shell
and try to think to bring some kind of transformation in the society.
These
violent days were formidable for her that at the same time it was the
learning phase of her life. It was believeth of her family member that
the follow of the violence is not the right way for fighting for their
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Her father was the firm with
his conviction and at the same time instilled in Condi that black people
would have to prove themselves worthy of advancement, and would simply have
to be “twice as good” to overcome injustice built into the system. However,
they were the supporter of the goals of the civil right movement in the
peaceful manner.
Condoleezza was grown up in
the time of upheaval of the racial discrimination in US, but that made her
determinant for fight against adversity. She inculcated this suggestion of
her father very deeply that to stand against the injustice she will have to
“twice as good” as non-minorities. This has also made her to speak her mind
very clearly and boldly. She said once that if gun registration had been
mandatory, her father’s weapons would have been confiscated and they would
have been left defenseless against the attack of violent mob.
To make her father’s desire
true she learned French, Russian, German and Spanish. She also learned
music, skating and ballet. At point of time she was very serious to learn
the piano but she shelved this idea on realization that she was “pretty good
but not great”. Therefore she has seen it all problems, discrimination and
adversity. But this has helped her to become a human being with a limpid
thought process.
Attending the course of
International Politics taught by Josef Korbel, the father of former
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had sparked her interest in Politics
in general and Soviet Union and International Relations in particular. This
interest had taken her near to politics. Rice was a Democrat until 1982;
however, former President Carter’s foreign policy influenced her to switch
her side to Republican Party.
Her determination and
budgetary skills came to forefront when in Stanford’s Provost, Dr. Rice was
responsible for the managing the university’s multimillion dollar budget. At
that time the school was running in deficit of $20 million, but she balanced
the budget in two years time and makes it surplus with $14 million as was
promised by her.
As an astute politician,
her “Transformational Diplomacy policy” for replacing the American diplomats
to the new areas of growth center and at the same time making it mandatory
for the diplomats to learn at-least two foreign languages. She is not just
into the politics only. She has served as the board of directors for the
Carnegie Corporation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the
Charles Schwab Corporation, the Chevron Corporation, Hewlett Packard and
Rand Corporation and this list is endless.
No wonder that this woman
has taken the color of her skin in her stride and transcendent into the some
of the uncharted territories where even non-minorities falter to reach.
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