Condoleezza Rice has been quite talkative about Barack Obama’s big presidential win!

First, the Secretary of State, who grew up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, held a special press conference last week to say she’s "especially proud" of Obama’s electoral success. And now comes word that Rice recently sat down with C-SPAN and went into further detail about this nation’s racial evolution.

Said Rice: "I think what you really saw here was that race is no longer the factor in American identity and American life, and that’s a huge step forward. I’ve just been also in the Middle East, and there it was seen that a country that had such deep racial divisions - I’ve said myself that America had a birth defect, slavery - and that we could overcome that and that you could have, of course, this really quantum leap to a black - the election of the first African American president…"

Rice goes on to explain that Obama’s success represents but one of the big steps the States has taken in the past few decades, like her role as a black, female Secretary of State. Of all her comments, we’re particularly touched by Rice’s remarks on the Birmingham Church bombing of 1963: "…Somehow the word began to spread that there had been a bombing at the church. And as it became clear that little girls had died in that church, I think the terror, really homegrown terrorism, had come to Birmingham in a very dramatic way." Rice then again celebrates President-elect Obama, "But over time, of course, America has begun to heal her - her racial wounds, and that culminated in the election of Barack Obama." One big step, yes, but there are certainly many more to go before this nation’s completely cured of its "birth defect."