A top Bush advisor urged Americans to forget slavery as civic necessity.

Evidence

In the wake of the UN Conference on Racism in Durban, Condoleezza Rice (then US National Security Advisor and now the most senior and visible African American in the Bush administration) apparently recommended that those in the United States should forget (about) slavery, as the enactment of civil society, she insisted, necessitates forgetting – really erasing – the past. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 130

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the original source of this reported Rice recommendation from the Durban conference aftermath.
• SHARE: A specific person interested in the Bush administration’s racial politics would want this.