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MILWAUKEE - A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an 'Aunt Jemima' and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state. John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview that he used the term on Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration. Rice has served as President Bush's national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell as secretary of state. Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an 'Uncle Tom' — a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile...
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