Smarten up? See, I still see noting that she is black as being beside the point. If being black is part of the equation, I think that's an admirable part. It's not easy having to prove oneself every step of the way. It's difficult to do when one is a woman; being a black woman has to be harder.

Colin Powell is black but I don't know how hard it was for him, as a man, to make it to the top. I should think that the part that was hard for him as a black man was proving himself in the military, rather than in politics.

Nope. I think Condoleeza Rice's problem is not her blackness; it is something that she lacks inside herself. Much like her boss.