In a recent interview Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice echoed Senator Obama's call for a national dialogue on race, expressing her concern that the ugly bootprints of slavery still mark America's cultural and political landscape. Her remarks came only a month after the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination scolded U.S. officials for not doing enough to eliminate the vestiges of slavery, most notably America's punitive drug war policies. President Bush spoke in favor of reforming some of these policies when he first took office but quickly had to turn his attention to responding to 9-11. With Secretary Rice stepping out on race, will Bush finally push for legislative reform?
