Alaska's Minorities Feel Ignored by Gov. Palin »
Posted By VotersUnite 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsAlaska's black leaders say they're not surprised to see Gov. Sarah Palin at the center of the controversy over injecting the race issue into the presidential campaign.
Palin, Republican John McCain's running mate, has repeatedly insisted that Barack Obama's former preacher, the inflammatory Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is a legitimate issue even though McCain himself has said it's out of bounds.
"She has no sensitivity to minorities," said the Rev. Alonzo Patterson, a Baptist minister and president of the Alaska Black Leadership Conference. "She's really inciting a lot of African-Americans to get out and vote."
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orndorffter1 year, 1 month ago
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VotersUnite; Sure sounds to me that Gov. Sarha Palin sure has a problem with African Americans. When they say they feel inored be her they should and the black leaders of Alaska are fed up with her, they are disgusted with her and her true colors come out on national stage, when she attened the rally and one of the supporters told a black Comeraman to "sit down, boy", she should have said or did something, after all she is still the Governor of Alaska. These people well never forget how she had treated them and she said that she would do anything for alaska. Shes full of it up to her ears. I sure wouldnt want her for Governor for our State and I sure dont want her for V.P thats all we need trouble, she is at that. You treat others as you want to be treated but you dont see much of that anymore. I'm sorry but that women gaves me the creeps and she is up to no good.
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tschrnywolf1 year, 1 month ago
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Yes, strange, though. Palin is married to a rich latino minority. Plus she is also latin or middle easterner.
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Very gross arrogance of that character.It is not just Americans Alaskans of African ancestry. Amerinds founded that state, they are a minority too. Does she discriminate against her own people? Latin Americans are mixed with the people the Spanish kidnapped from Africa. So she is no one to put down anyone, plus the Mccain campaign shows many black caucus members.
She seems very insecure of who she is.
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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When a black pastor speaks out about some feeling that a white politician has slighted the black community, is it too much to ask for concrete examples? This person clearly has an interest in the outcome, so his perception or alleged perception needs more than just his feelings on the matter.
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Unless of course the idea is to trivialize real racism and discrimination.-
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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So let's see what the squealing is about.
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1. They see Gov. Sarah Palin at the center of the controversy over injecting the race issue into the presidential campaign.
Palin is not responsible for Obama campaign lies about Palin and the reaction of blacks to those lies. Blacks are free to accept or reject any lies or react to them as they see fit.
2. Palin insists Rev. Racist Bigot Wright is a legitimate issue even though McCain himself has said it’s out of bounds.
Ah. So despite the video of Racist Bigot, he's off the table. And without the first sound bite of similar hatred by Palin, we know she ever more the racist bigot than Wright ever was.
3. “She has no sensitivity to minorities.”
Her job is not exhibiting sensitivity, but to govern the State of Alaska. One would think a PASTOR offering...oh what is the word...ah yes...PASTORAL CARE...might understood whose job it is to offer sensitivity.
4. Black leaders say they’ve been ignored in their efforts to get more minorities hired in her administration.
Really? So the federal government can refuse to hire any whites in Alaska or Idaho because those states are TOO WHITE, but the State of Alaska, shut out of federal opportunities for being mostly the wrong race, must then turn around and hire blacks? I'm afraid I just don't give a rat's ass about racist government hiring policies any more than black people do. And they clearly do not.
5. Palin failed to issue a proclamation last year endorsing a festival that marks the freeing of slaves, though she did issue one this year.
So the grievance theatre script is what? She was a year late? Or that Alaska was nearly a century late to the whole slave thing to start with? Is this the part where we inquire as to which black leader in America has offered the first negative word about the slavery that continues in Africa to this very day? -
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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6. At a rally attended by Palin, a supporter told a black cameraman to “sit down, boy.”
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Oh how e-ville! Somebody called someone a boy. Yeah, that'll stick. And of course this alleged, anonymous slight was only possible because Palin was there.
7. Obama himself noted the hateful tone of some the McCain-Palin crowds, singling out Palin herself for not doing enough to ease the friction.
Yet the media and liberals are free to trash Palin's children and exploit Cindy McCain's daughter after Obama says children of candidates are off limits, in a way that the media and liberals would NEVER do to Obama's children. THEY get to abuse children. WE don't get to exhibit any emotion at a political rally for our candidate, and if we do, they label it "hate."
8. Many of Palin’s black constituents say they are disgusted with the campaign’s racial overtones.
Which overtones are alleged to be there by Obama and his campaign. Again, flip a coin. Buy the lie or don't buy the lie.
9. “It’s really been like you’re going to a Ku Klux Klan rally.”
Ah yes, the obligatory KKK reference. This was so inevitable the article would have been incomplete without it.
10. In Alaska, the issue of race relations usually focuses on Alaska Natives, who make up 18 percent of the population. Blacks, in contrast, make up 4 percent.
Well clearly we need to subsidize grievance theatre classes for native Americans in Alaska. They're lagging far behind their black peers.
11. “If you’re going to embrace the entire country, you need to address the issues here,” said Marilyn Stewart.
I'm just guessing, but her point here is not to address the black-on-black homicide rate across America that makes Bagdad safer by comparison and exceeds the black homicide rate of the entire era of lynchings.
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abntv1 year, 1 month ago
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The Governor of any state has the right to appoint or hire whoever they feel is qualified for the position they are filling. Blacks make up only 4% of the population in Alaska. Of the 4% just how many are qualified for the positions being filled?
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year, 1 month ago
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If Palin wants to keep the kids out of it then why does she take every advantaged to have them appear with her. Her stopping off at WalMart for diapers with the baby in her arms was it for me. How helathy do you think it is for an infant to expose to all the sound and chaos of the media. Unbelievable! She didn't need to go into Walmart to buy diapers. What was she trying to prove?
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Please tell me what was she thinking when she named her children? The names aren't Christian names Trigg??? -
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tschrnywolf1 year, 1 month ago
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Alaska has been a kind of relegated state. Its frigid climate, faraway and kind of foreign settlers (early settlers) it has been used as a sort of trashcan for nuclear tests, delinquents and other not safe folks. A kind of American Siberia.
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Federal authority has worked easily to make its inhabitants comply. Need for public services does not give the alaskans much freedom of political dissent. Also, family dependence makes people agree even when they don't.
So we got the McPalin monster, a lady that poped-out of nowhere. At least Dan Quayle was a congressman. If Mccain flips or sickens, she would be in charge. Do you want Hardy to take over if Laurel dies or is bed-ridden? (Laurel and Hardy were two comedians, rather dumb, but Hardy was so dumb! -
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