Why does Sarah Palin have such strained relations with minorities?
By David Neiwert Tuesday Oct 14, 2008 12:30pmWhile Max Blumenthal was up in Alaska gathering information on Sarah Palin's background, he managed to sit down and interview two of the African-American community leaders in Anchorage who'd had dealings with Palin as governor: Gwen Alexander, the president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, and Bishop Dave Thomas, a distinguished black pastor from Anchorage.
As you can see, Palin made clear to them through her refusal to participate in the state's traditional Juneteenth celebration, as well as her refusal to work on their concerns about minority hiring for the gas-pipeline commission and on her staff, that race relations are pretty low on her priority list.
Much of this was reported a few weeks ago by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, but the impact of Palin's behavior comes home here: It's clear that the African American community in Alaska feels thoroughly disenfranchised.
Then there was the news today that Palin's rural adviser has quit because of the governor's shoddy treatment of Alaska Natives. Among other items: Palin appointed a white woman to a game-board seat traditionally held by a Native.
What exactly is Palin's problem with minorities? She's happy to trot them out for photo ops, but her actions on the ground speak much louder.
UPDATE: (Nicole) Uh oh. Palin Advisor quits, citing race problems...this time with the native Alaskan population.
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racist c**t.
Spot on!
She don't mind hanging with Sambo, as long as Sambo don't speak - It doesn't get to me that there is still racism in this world, I imagine that will always exist some what, unless we come to a higher understanding of ourselves.
But what gets me is the amoung of racists in the world. You would think it would be a little more fringe that it is, but I have seen it in way too many places for my comfort level. Shit I even heard my dipshit brother inlaw say he couldn't vote Obama because Obama was a N*****. and I always knew he was stupid, but that surprised me!
Keep in mind I'm a Jewish athiest white guy. I've always tried to only hate people if I had a real reason: you shot me, you robbed me, or better. And I have always thought bigots to be so lazy that they couldn't come up with an actual reason to hate someone, so they just hate because: >Fill in bullshit reason here, ie skin, eye or hair color, etc>.
I also believed at one time that we could stop racism by interbreading enough to the point where we were just different degrees of brown, but I also realized that Mexican's can be bigoted against Nicaraguans (for example) so that doesn't work.
So what then can we do? The geeks out there I would tell us: we need to achieve light-speed so that we can meet the vulkans and then we will live in harmony...but I don't know if we can wait that long. We're in a lot of trouble right now, and a Black president won't fix our problems, but it's a hell of a sight that this country is growing up...
...some of us, anyway!
I think that you should be O's V.P., because I like the way you think my brother from another mother.
She's a neocon wingnut; that explains everything.
She also belongs to a secessionist group, most of which have been known to be white supremacists.
trying to find dominionists that aren't racist.
ditto. palin = white supremacist tony perkins/david duke patsy. mccain didnt do anything 'new' or promote diversity. he hired a kkk skank submissive mule.
well good luck ever getting an interview to ask her
louder than words, that's true for EVERY politician.
Saw this as soon as that mug began squealing. Didn't her goodly Xtian father ship the little ho-down traveling family to Wasilla to escape the rapidly integrating Idaho?
No, he didn't. From every person I spoke with, Chuck Heath is a decent, fine, relatively forward thinking individual. He was a science teacher who I imagine is dismayed by his daughter's apparent adoption of "Young Creationism." And FWIW, they left Sandpoint in the early 1960s, well before either the hippies (late '60s) or the white supremacists (mid '70s) began arriving.
The Conservatives have made hating us part of their doctrine and now even the least educated of us African Americans can clearly see through their historically vile bullshit.
Welcome to the club. Let's hope the vote is so amazingly overwhelming that there is a clear victory for Obama.
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Self-respecting African-Americans hate Palin, self-hating anti-black Yes' massa colored conservative Negro Republicans (Amy Holmes, Joseph Watkins, Tara Wall, Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, etc.) LOVE her, and these self-hating colored Negro conservative Republicans hate their own people more than Palin does.
Thanks for calling out the Sambos like Clarence Thomas and Tara Wall! We Blacks have Zero use for these traitors! They should remember the treatment traitors in South AFrica got!
We saw through her phony act the moment she stepped on the national stage.
You mean I can call Palin a BITCH on this site! I have been wanting to call her one for a long time...but resorted to female dog, just so I could blog out there! I am ready for her to go back to Alaska and take her family with her, along with the grandbaby as she get ready for another one.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this thread a repeat.
I've not seen it before. But there are a lot of things I've never seen.
do a jump off a cliff, do a triple back wrencher and plummet down into a sewer ?
I think you may have seen a link on a previous thread and clicked here and seen another video by Blumenthal:
Queen Esther called. She wants her lipstick back!
http://rooftopscreaming.blogspot.com/2008/10/queen-esther-called-she-wants-her.html
I know I sound like a broken record this afternoon, but if you read the Salon article I linked in the previous thread, you will understand that she does what she does to please the members of AIP. They scratch her back and she scratches theirs.
... could sweep all three places in Keith's nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment.
She's that bad.
Maybe its because she's a batshit crazy evil b*t*h! Just a thought.
That too.
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That too.
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I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but the evidence is plain, she's a hate mongering bigot.
The NeoCon party relies on ignorance and fear of the 'other'.
Look at the crown of people she's gathering around her. Dumb and full of hate.
Two good things are coming of this:
We get to expose America's not so hidden hatred. This will cause some, but only some, of them to be ashamed, and perhaps change their ways. More importantly, it allows us to see these people for what they are.
The other good thing is that she is punching holes in the hull of the sinking ship that is the Republican Party. That's a good thing, since they seemed to be riding a river of innocent blood the whole time. Let's hope they drown in it.
Bye-bye, you greedy, ignorant, hate mongering, war pigs.
I don't believe in hell, but if there was, guess where you'd be going?
The DaddyPublican party abandoned the flock, fleeced their 401Ks and pensions, gutted their savings, destroyed their jobs, stole their houses, and is attempting to close down their companies.
Any wonder they dont sleep at night, Bushco doesnt love them any more.
Sarah Palin is a racist fear-monger. These rallys are a disgrace to the country. How can anyone condone this shit is beyond me, These assholes are in for a suprise. in a couple of decades THEY will be the minority. How pathtic. They are teaching their children to hate. They are promoting the demise of the Republican Party.
Yes, it looks like she's really enjoy herself at the McKKK rallies. She feels at home.
As if Republicans are concerned.
There are African-Americans in Alaska? Wow!
Perhaps her Mooseness, Lady Palin, didn't have any Afro wigs, serapes, yamulkas or Asian eyes to pin on her Barbie dolls when she was playing?
Well, we know she doesn't READ Ebony or Jet
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3632
Most likely, Racist Hate Hag Palin, and her like-minded right wing racists throughout this country, would have Ebony and Jet shut down, because Palin and the neo-con racists believe that black people have no right to speak without their right wing racist permission,
More on Palin's racism:
http://www.blckagendareport.com
Here's the correct link to Black Agenda Report.com:
http://www.blackagendareport.com
Simple explanation really. She's merely demonstrating her small town American values. Anyone who has spent any time in a small, predominately white community knows what that means.
I have a summer home in extreme northern Wisconsin. I was just up there this weekend to close the place up for the winter. I truly love it there but the blatantly racist comments I experienced first hand from McCain/Palin supporters were frightening.
This ignorance is an indictment of America. We must have the most ignorant electorate of any "civilized" country. And it was done by design.
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there are three kinds of people:
1) those who loathe Palin and think she's evil (ex-wife)
2) those who loathe her to the point of foaming at the mouth (brother)
3) those who are very dangerous, not-to-be-trusted fucks
I always thought there were only two kinds of people in this world:
1) Those who think there are two kinds of people in this world.
2) Those who don't.
approach to things. It fits the Age.
No, there's always been three kinds of people:
Those that can count,and
Those that can't.
Abuse of power,kickbacks,cronyism,ignoring Natives, and Now racism? Oh my,what surprise. I...I'm shocked.
Sarah Palin has strained relationships with intelligence and human decency. She needs to go back to Alaska and hunt a clue.
......or move to Crawford, Texas.
...or take a long walk off a short pier.
Or maybe "run with the wolves"
If for some God forsaken reason S. Palin moves to Washington D.C. she will be slaughtered by the upper crust in that area. She just can't hang with people who speak proper English and people of class.
That she HAD blinked.
Bingo on that comment! Or should I say 'maverick'? hee hee!
After, all, she did let an African preacher put a spell on her to protect her from witchcraft.
Perhaps, but while Muthee may be a dirty n***** he's also a theocrat, an anti-intellectual, and a bully. All things Palin can whole-heartedly get behind.
You'd be surprised, but they are a few bigots that see African different from black Americans. I don't get it either.
She is one of those scary, jumpy white women that panics anytime a black or brown face comes near her. You know the type-- there could be a brother driving a top of the range Mercedes, wearing a designer suit and looking finer than frog hair; she would immediately lock the doors to her jalopy and pull her daughters away lest they take sight of a Scary Black Man. Take away the Mercedes, the man I described is Obama!
There's also a self-hating, Yes Massa, anti-black Negro conservative who serves as a good House Negro for the Palin plantation in Alaska, a self-hating anti-black buck dancing colored conservative Negro Republican named Sean "I Hate Black People, and I Hate Being A Black Person" Conner.
Sean Conner is a Slave Catcher.
Get it right.
I think we're all aware what it is...
she's a cretin.
I'm wondering if the October surprise is going to be her resignation. It can be plausibly done with all the crap stirring up about her; and it would possibly re-invigorate the mccain camp with somebody like lieberman, huckabee, or romney. Maybe that's why obama's not going after her so much.
I expect the Obama campaign has laid off her primarily because she's doing a great job destroying her campaign all by herself.
She's shooting holes in the swamped boat to let the water out.
Exactly. Let these troglodytes kick their own ass. They are doing a great job of it.
The October surprise has already been opened. The abuse of her gubernatorial powers in Alaska.
The re-thuglic party is Home-Sweet-Home for Sarah Palin. She fits like a moose calf-skin glove.
Re-thug-lics -- the party of immature, voraciously rapacious, despotic, doughy white, cowardly, angry, bigots, racists, perverts, xenophobes, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, self-hating women, fetid wombs and consummate chronic liars.
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Todd is the son of an Eskimo Mother and totally disowned his race. Next after marrying Sarah she thought all that was over until she lost the Miss Alaska Beauty Contest to a Black woman. Sarah has had enough and can't take anymore. Sarah can't get over coming in second place to a beautful black woman.
Is a quote from an article by Linn Washington, Jr. attributed to Sarah "Heath" (Palin) by Charles Greg Royal. Don't know if it has legs but would certainly explain a lot.
http://www.counterpunch.org/washington1008200...
this probably wasn't on her reading list either:
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh, 1988
http://www.case.edu/president/aaction/Unpacki...
daddy mac set the example by voting No to the MLK holiday.
Not only that, but right wing racist McCain also called the 1964 Civil Rights Act "...the most dangerous piece of legislation in the history of the United States."
Link?
Watch me and a Native as he plays the ceremonial drum in this protest song. Palin is a nutcase.
http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/topics/deathi...
Good work, ronnie ray. I like it.
I am shocked and appalled.
Palin is a typical Neocon, that is, a self centered, sociopathic user. She has no empathy or concern for others, except to the extent they can benefit her personally. Why is anyone surprised that she is otherwise? We must not give inept fools any credit for being competent or even the appearance of it.
by the straight white establishment up there in Alaska also.
It's no wonder the SWE was chased out of Europe unfortunately they landed in America and did the same thing to Native Americans.
Lied, cheated, took advantage of people . . . we know the rest.
Simple.
It's All About Sarah.
Unless you have something to offer, you're supposed to be invisible. And she'll turn on you in a second if she feels betrayed - hence her sudden, "It's all the media's fault" when she flubbed her interview.
Why??? What I want to say is if one has to ask that question, they aren't really paying attention, but that's just a little too pat of a snarky response.. The real truth is, I suspect that there are plenty of Alaskans, natives and minorities from up there who know that answer without hesitation... For the rest of us, what it amounts to is we have never been presented with a true picture here in the lower 48 of just what this woman is all about.. At least not until the mud started flying... Now we're beginning to see it.. She wants to sell the image of an average hockey mom... The cute little girl next door who got ahead by dent of her saavy street smarts and determination.. It's a fiction.. a total election campaign fabrication.. I'll just leave it at that...................I'll add just one more comment on her... We, as a nation?? Cannot afford and should not want to see this woman get anywhere near the kind of power that comes with being vice president of this nation. That's an even worse idea than seeing McCain stumble bum his way into office on a hate platform..............JD
You guys have really lost it this time.
Have you found it?
The answer is because Racist Hate Hag Palin HATES persons fo color. Racist McCain hates people of color, too.
The only exception to their racist hatred of black people is for the self-hating anti-black Negro conservatives that have dreams of saying "Yes, Sir, Mr. McCain, boss" and/or "Driving Miss Cindy" and/or "Driving Miss Palin" around.
I'm not sure I understand. It's not relevant to her response to minority issues?
Another 50 bucks for Obama!
Huh?
Hey, doogie . . .I always love a strong comeback from someone who disagrees. The follow-up will be, of course, some scatalogical invective. Here, let me help -- fuck you.
I guess it's pretty clear now that Palin's only talent was and still is rabble rouser. Doesn't say much for Alaska does it?But McCain really knew the Republican base and how effective she could be there. I think the McCain campaign meant to use her only to bring the traditional base on board while McCain would work to secure a center moderate position and go after the independents. For some reason they thought that these demographic groups existed in isolation. They don't read the same papers (if at all), they don't watch the same television channels and consequently they didn't expect the leakage that is making the Republican ticket unsatisfactory to just about everyone. John McCain, a Man for No Seasons.
A University student arrested preemptively before the Republican National Convention will be one of the first people prosecuted under a terrorism clause in the Minnesota Patriot Act since it was passed in 2002.
http://www.mndaily.com/2008/10/12/u-student-p...
Who said it earlier that McCain would be regretting this pick for the rest of his life.
I can here him now at the old folks home, "I coulda been a contender"
Exactly. I believe he will go to his grave regretting this decision in his life, maybe more than any other
British puppet satire TV series.
One of their later sketches from the late 90s, went like this.
Maggie Thatcher in a nursing home, sat in a chair looking not quite there and empty whisky bottle on the floor,
nurse or orderly comes into the room, Maggie perks up and quavers "I used to be PM you know" the nurse codensendingly answers "yes dear"
You have to be British and suffered under her regime in the 80s to fully appreciate the joke... ;)
David, did I see you on CNN this afternoon? If you are the same person, that article you guys wrote about Palin on Salon was amazing and so informative. Thank you!
palin is everything this country is not
and have worked so hard to overcome.....
she is a fucking racist.
she is just tundra whitetrash
I like it!
Black talk radio, such as WVON-AM 1690 out of Chicago http://www.wvon.com, and the national black talk radio network XM 169/THE POWER http://www.radio-one.com, with hosts like "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison http://www.joemadison.com, and Warren Ballantine http://www.thetruthfighters.com, are verbally babecuing both Racist McCain and Racist Palin, their racist right wing supporters, and their self-hating anti-black buck-dancing House Negro supporters, big time.
I've heard that she gets along very well with the one black person that lives in Alaska.
This is absured, we should be giving jobs to minorities based on races, not competition, how dare they try to put the most qualified person in the position. Bottom line, if you don't agree with the left your a racist!
No one is talking about giving jobs based on race, but I find it mightily funny that not a single black person that has applied for a government job was unqualified. Nearly every major city in every state has some sort of programme to recruit minorities on to local, state and federal contracts. It's called representing your electorate. Oh and, while we're on this competition thing, how many lily-white sons and daughters have jobs because of "connections." I am sure some highly-qualified black or brown person got kicked to the curb.
Do you think it was right that Sarah Palin filled up cabinet jobs with her mates from school?
And/or you're a really bad speller.
The more we get to know of Palin the more of a despicable bitch she becomes.
I'd love to watch this, but it's not playing for some reason...Just buffering and buffering...
If anyone watched her response during her campaign stops, they would notice her not even feeling the least bit sorry over the calls to "Kill Him!".
In fact, the stupid woman said she was speaking the "truth" and what she said "wasn't negative".
She is a racist, and an unrepentant one at that. What is worse is that she doesn't feel any shame for her efforts at all.
I serve on the board of an Alaska Native organization. It is our tradition at our annual event (which draws participants and visitors from around the state and the world) to invite the sitting Governor to our opening ceremonies. They usually make an effort to attend and if they can't they will send a representative or a message to be read at the event. Governor Palin was invited in 2007 and again in 2008. Not only did she choose to not attend, our invitation was completely ignored and received no response from her office whatsoever. I don't think we'll bother with the invite in 2009.
fine as hell. I don't care if she don't like my ppl, i'd wife dat asap, ya diiiig.
Bottom line is this is a bunch of hooey. She doesn't have any problems with minorities but it benefits the Obama camp to make that claim.
Vote for McCain/Palin for a decent, smart, logical change for America that will strenthen and help America recover from the economic disaster of sub prime mortgages which Acorn browbeat banks into with Obama's encouragement and browbeating as well.
Obama is a step in half wit direction. He is just a big bully, cries "racist" at any criticism. We DON'T NEED censorship which is what he is all about.
Conservatoire, sexism isn't any better than racism. Don't get me wrong; I think Palin is evil, but I wouldn't equate evil with a woman's vagina any more than I would with her colour.
FIX YOUR DAMN VIDEO PLAYER!!!!
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***OR SEXY SARA PALIN VIDEOS***
Fear of anything different, fear that maybe a race of people will one day rebel against the atrocities of racism and that whites will get caught in the crossfire. Sarah Palin is the epitome of what ignorance does, it plants doubts and fears and harvests hatred; and it is that hatred that Sarah Palin and John McCain have in common. How else can you explain a woman who says she is a Christian, a mother, a wife and soon to be grandmother debase yourself to the degree that she has in the name of seeking political office?
Sarah Palin's insistence in referring to herself as a Christian is an affront to God Himself; is it a different God that sent His Son to die on the cross, or do I dare believe that it is the same God that we all should be sharing. Sarah Palin has children and that is what concerns me most; she is their thermometer for knowing how to treat someone like me. I truly am sad for this woman and her family and as to her reaction to people who look like me; hating me is a blight on your own children and soon to be grandchild. You CANNOT call the name of Jesus Christ and hate me simultaneously because of my color; God makes no mistakes.
She's probably still upset that she came in second place to an african-american woman in that Miss Alaska beauty pageant. LOL
I am totally impressed with the large number of Whites and non-Blacks who are voting for Obama, because I constantly have to explain to my European friends, that The majority of Americans are good and descent people. Of course, the republicans are giving us dedicated Americans a bad name around the world, but I just tell my foreign friends that these people do not speak for Americans, who wish to see the dreams of MLK realized. Rather than continously speaking of the racist and giving him free media coverage, we should praise the Blacks, Asians, Latinos, First Americans and especially Whites for trying to make America the nation that our constitution declares it to be. I think that Whites do not get enough credit for the positive things that they do to enhance race relations in this country. I am African American and most of my friends, associates and co-workers are not Black. It is often depressing not to see more people like myself in my neighborhood and workplace, but I do not blame Whites for that. This country has changed for the better over the last fifty years and it is about time that we stop blaming each other for our own personal failures. If a Black person or other minority cannot find suitable employment, it is not the fault of some White person; keep trying, upgrade your skills, but do not blame others. If a White person does not get into that college or get that dream job that he thinks was owed to him after college because a better prepared Black, Asian or Latino got the job or placement in college, do not look for a reason to Blame the minority for you