It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

