Politicamente

podemos não concordar com a senhora,
mas este esforço de gerações não deixa de me comover.
On both sides of her family, Condi Rice is descended from white slave owners as well as black slaves; and the slaves were mostly "house slaves", as opposed to "field slaves", according to Connie Rice. This gave them proximity to privilege, and they used it to become educated, the family says - an imperative they passed like a torch through the generations.