No word yet from Hispanics, but the transition is young. The rest would be high-fivin' and patting their humble little hearts through the Ides of March. Blacks aren't happy with the black appointees because they're only Token Blacks. Liberals aren't happy because it's their job not to be happy. No choice, no affirmative action, no compromise.
Whites have to do it, too.
Despite his humble beginnings in the South Bronx, Powell has never been a victim nor a whiner, never thrown himself a pity-party, never asked for anything but the opportunity to prove himself. Ditto Condoleeza Rice, the first female, not to mention black female, to be appointed national security adviser. We might ask what that means while pretending it's not racist. We could have expected similar protests had Floyd Flake, an African-American minister, not withdrawn from consideration for secretary of education. Flake, like anyone else Bush is likely to select, favored vouchers, which Official Black America opposes despite the fact that 80 percent of actual blacks favor school choice and that vouchers benefit minorities more than anyone else.