Interview With Colin Powell
The Telegraph has a great interview with Colin Powell. The whole thing is worth reading, but this part from the end was by far the most interesting to me.
Read the whole thing.
Powell also said that he was "absolutely not" going to seek public office in the future.
The day before our meeting, I had told a black Washington driver that I was hoping to meet Colin Powell. He laughed, and told me to ask him if he realised that, in the end, the white man always thinks you're "just a nigger". So that is what I ask Colin Powell as we stand up to depart.
He pauses and smiles. "When I joined the army, it was only five years after the last segregated regiment had disbanded. There was a lot of discrimination. Seventeen years ago, when I joined the National Security Council, I could still detect a little of that.
"Not now. Now I'm criticised for what I do wrong, not for who I am. This country has moved so far."
Read the whole thing.
Powell also said that he was "absolutely not" going to seek public office in the future.
