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White radio host calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'
By JAMES A. CARLSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

MILWAUKEE -- A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state.

John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration.

Rice has served as President Bush's national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell as secretary of state.

Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an "Uncle Tom" - a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.

When are white folks going to understand that with the baggage they got and the baggage we got, that will NEVER come out right?

He should have said what he meant.

And don't misunderstand, I don't care ultimately what he called her or why. To me, being Black gets you a set of assumptions about priorities and styles of communication. Prove me wrong about your priorities and I change my mind. It is more than possible for a Black person to simply be on the wrong side, and it ain't like the National Security Advisor/Incumbent Secretary of State needs any protection from the likes o' me.