You Had Me at “Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations”
by matt at 6:00 am on September 14th, 2005 in RiceIn the President’s hour of need, he’s doing what he always does in a crisis, hiding behind the skirts of his wife, Karen Hughes, and of course Condoleezza Rice. Rice has drawn most of the race duty (maybe it has something to do with her shoe-shopping trip in the middle of the flood) vouching for the President’s supposed racial tolerance:
Ms. Rice said she was first impressed by Mr. Bush in the 1990’s, not because of any foreign policy issues, but because he spoke of “the soft bigotry of low expectations” and the phrase meant something to her. She recalled being told by a high school teacher “that maybe I was junior college material” and added:
“I know about the soft bigotry of low expectations. And it’s not in this president. It is, however, deeply ingrained in our system, and we’re going to have to do something about it.”
This phrase simply won’t go away even in the face of the hard bigotry of actual bigotry.
jamie wrote:
now we’re dissing junior colleges? didn’t bush himself up the funding of those bastions of “low expectations.” hypocrits! ricey: junior college isn’t good enough for me but send all the rest of them there. . .
Posted 14 Sep 2005 at 7:22 am ¶