Alaska's minorities feel ignored by Palin

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Yahoo News/AP

Alaska'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."

Since taking office in December 2006, Palin has had a sometimes tense relationship with black leaders, who say they've been ignored in their efforts to get more minorities hired in her administration.

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Patterson and Odom say that when they've pressed Palin about diversity in hiring, she gets defensive and even testy.

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[Rage for Order]

1. Of course they're ignored

African Americans in Alaska aren't an influential voting bloc, so she has no use for them. As of July 2007, there were 25,726 AAs in Alaska. In a state population of approx 600,000 people, this equates to 4.29% of the population. If you can't help get her elected, she won't care about you.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Just wait if she's selected!

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Well, you know how "uppity" those "coloreds" can get. Just look at Obama.

:sarcasm: :eyes: This woman and her klan rallies are hideous. She should never be allowed back into polite society.


...oh, wait. She palls around with secessionists. She isn't a member of polite society.

[notaboutus]

4. The AIP are a racist group

People like to give McPalin the benefit of the doubt but everything they are doing from the words they speak to the robo calls can be found in one of Pat Buchanan's books a man she once backed for president although they now both deny it.

[EFerrari]

5. Not only AIP. Her church and her branch of wingnut "Chritianity"

are both not only racist but white supremacist.

These folks in Alaska are lucky they aren't in camps or set out on ice floes yet. This is one really ugly person, this Caribou Barbie.

[notaboutus]

8. Wingnut is right

cause she is nutty as a fruitcake.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

6. Frau Palin

[notaboutus]

7. You made me laugh.

Palin is evil personified!