Powell's defense of their verdict was outrageous, and if such a ridiculous explanation had come out of the mouth of, say, Louis Farrakhan or Lenora Fulani, it would have been roundly condemned. He gives a great speech. He gets all of them white people coming up off the chairs, clapping and feeling good about themselves. He talks about America, the great land of opportunity, and how a poor West Indian kid with Jamaican parents and living in the south Bronx can work his way to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. . . . . They all love this shit.
White people love to believe they're fair.
One of the things that upsets the living shit out of them is when you confront them with the fact that they are really a bunch of racist, no-good motherfuckers. Still, many veteran conservative leaders, such as Phyllis Schlafly, Paul Weyrich, and others declared their opposition . In light of Bush's pre-election appointment, such questions need to be asked. To the grassroots conservatives who are now the dominant majority in the Republican Party, Rockefeller Republicanism means 'in your face' Big Government liberalism. In the days leading up to Powell's anticlimactic announcement that he would not run, an organization pushing his candidacy seemed to spring out of nowhere, led by Eisenhower biographer and internationalist blowhard Steven Ambrose.