"America doesn't have an easy time dealing with race," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Washington Times in an interview last week. Rice added that members of her family have "endured terrible humiliations."

As the first African-American woman to serve as secretary of state, Rice is living proof of a new America where race is not an obstacle to garnering a leadership role in the most rarefied circles of government. Yet her remarks come as Democratic pres ...

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