Trooper Thorn
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20 080328/FOREIGN/746301768/1001
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding.
"Black Americans were a founding population," she said. "Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country togetherâ€â€Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That's not a very pretty reality of our founding."
"America doesn't have an easy time dealing with race," Miss Rice said, adding that members of her family have "endured terrible humiliations."