Con-di-fi-cation: Black women, leadership and political power

Every colonized person who today accepts a governmental post must know clearly that he will sooner or later be called upon to sponsor a policy of repression, of massacres, of collective murders in one of the regions of... the [French] empire (Fanon, 1958: 118). The exigencies of projecting US power, conditioned by the ever-present rhetoric of the threat of terrorism, but not determined by it, transcends party and racial affiliations and ensures that those black Americans - and for that matter other people of color and women - who rise to positions of strategic foreign policy construction will substantially represent state interests above all others (Lusane, 2006: 197).