Did Governor (Palin) Say She "Didn't Have to Hire Any Blacks?"

[Submariner]

She's racist scum too...I didn't know that.

Did Governor Say She "Didn't Have to Hire Any Blacks?"

Alaska's Blacks and Palin: a Strained Relationship

By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr.

While many across America consider GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin some kind of phenomenon, many blacks in Alaska see the Governor of their state as a person closing down the open-door inclusive posture of her predecessors.

Alaskan blacks fault Palin for not hiring African-Americans, dismissing blacks from government posts, spurning repeated requests to meet with black leaders to discuss issues of concern and refusing to attend that state’s major African-American celebration.

“Where past governors have attended Gov Palin has refused to attend or even send a staff member. They could have sent a gardener as their representative but they didn’t,” said Bishop James Thomas, a spokesman for Juneteenth, a state holiday in Alaska since 2001.

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Palin’s increasingly rocky relations with Alaska’s black community seeped down to the ‘Lower 48’ weeks ago following an internet posting by the President of Alaska’s African American Historical Society Gwendolyn Alexander detailing controversies like Juneteenth, Palin’s staffing practices and Palin allegedly stating she “doesn’t have to hire any blacks” for major projects.

http://www.counterpunch.org/washington09272008.html

[RoccoR5955]

1. The first tan person she's seen

was Barack Obama!

[FrenchieCat]

5. Not it wasn't.

The woman that beat her in that infamous beauty contest was "tan".

[awoke_in_2003]

9. i bet that seriously chapped her ass. nt

[RichGirl]

8. I like to think of Obama as Mocha.

[crazy_vanilla]

2. not surprised n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Didn't she make some racist crack at the end of the Democratic Primary?

Something like "Bongo beat the bitch..." or some such idiotic statement.

[PearliePoo2]

6. What was reported was

"So...Sambo beat the bitch".
Nice, huh?

[Kerrytravelers]

12. Ah, yes. I didn't remember the racist hate speech she used against Obama.

What a lovely woman. :eyes:

[nc4bo]

4. That shoe would fit. nt

[DemFromMem]

7. We need to be careful

I don't like spreading stories that use the word "allegedly" even if they seem in character. We blame the mainstream media for just parroting what the right wingers say even if there is not a shred of truth. I think we need to be careful about pushing really serious accusations like this unless we have actual proof.

[scarface2004]

10. 'i don t like black people' sara pailin 6-26-08

at a joint klan/aip rally in fairbanks. next issue of enquirer to expose.

[dkofos]

11. I thought she said she wouldn't hire any blacks.