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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska's black leaders say they are 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 is out of bounds.
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"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 have been ignored in their efforts to get more minorities hired in her administration.
In Alaska, blacks chafed when Palin opposed a proclamation endorsing a festival that marks the freeing of slaves. On the campaign trail, her events sometimes have attracted fringe groups hostile to minorities. At one rally attended by Palin, a supporter told a black cameraman to "sit down, boy."
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This week, in the final debate of the campaign, Obama himself noted the hateful tone of some of the McCain-Palin crowds, singling out Palin herself for not doing enough to ease the friction.
Many of Palin's black constituents say they are disgusted with the campaign's racial overtones.
"It's really been like you're going to a Ku Klux Klan rally," said Javis Odom, an Anchorage minister, referring to the white supremacist group. "Gov. Palin is really showing her true colors on the national stage."
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.
Patterson and Odom say that when they have pressed Palin about diversity in hiring, she gets defensive and even testy.
"If you're going to embrace the entire country, you need to address the issues here," said Marilyn Stewart, president of the Alaska Black Chamber of Commerce and a volunteer on Palin's gubernatorial campaign who has served Republican and Democratic governors. "Most certainly there are qualified minorities who would love to be part her administration. People aren't asking for her selections to be based on color, but because of qualifications."
Among Palin's 417 appointments or reappointments to boards and commissions since taking office in December 2006, 240 have voluntarily identified their ethnicity. Eight are black, 49 Alaska Native, six Asian or Pacific Islander and one is Hispanic.
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I like the ratios. If Obama wins, I might just have to look at immigrating to Alaska.
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Funny that blacks feel that way even dem Jewish people in Alaska like her
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Among Palin's 417 appointments or reappointments to boards and commissions since taking office in December 2006, 240 have voluntarily identified their ethnicity. Eight are black, 49 Alaska Native, six Asian or Pacific Islander and one is Hispanic.
If 4% of Alaskans are black, then 8 out of 240 self-identifying appointees is almost exactly proportionate to the population. In fact, Sarah Palin probably employed some affirmative action in hiring them. I don't see what the hell the negroes are complaining about.
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PS: There were several black people at the Home Depot Center rally in Carson two weekends ago. I guess they are either "Uncle Toms" or got very confused and thought they were going to an Obama rally *rolls eyes*.
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Obama's rallys are like Panther rallies. Or a welfare office.
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She's right, you should be able to criticises Jeremiah Wrong.
And how is he a minority? He's half white, right?
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I wish that pig, the other Irishman, John McCain, would grow a spine.
Looks like they broke his spine as well in Vietnam.
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These black retards really need to leave America.
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I like the ratios. If Obama wins, I might just have to look at immigrating to Alaska.
I got a uncle who lives out there, beautiful place from what I understand. I'm thinking of moving there too, plus you can buy handguns at the walmarts in Alaska despite Walmart not selling handguns in the rest of the US since the 90's :D
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I like the ratios. If Obama wins, I might just have to look at immigrating to Alaska.
I got a uncle who lives out there, beautiful place from what I understand. I'm thinking of moving there too, plus you can buy handguns at the walmarts in Alaska despite Walmart not selling handguns in the rest of the US since the 90's :D
Wasilla, where Palin is from, is a great place. All of the lower peninsula actually has a lower climate than Chicago or NYC in the winter. Places like Homer, Kodiak and Juneau are great and the people are nice. You can go walking around and see people feeding bald eagles and go fishing and catch a 200 pound halibut. People have wolves walk right into their back yard.
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IF and only IF this is true. Obama only has himself to blame! This is going to "make the south rise again"! ....And good for them! Although, I still think "the 'ol South" never went away. Obama thinks he's another JFK? Don't ride in any Lincolns any time soon. :::D
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I am thinking about starting a right-wing organization. Working on the charter now. We won't wear hoods and we will support Israel.
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Funny that blacks feel that way even dem Jewish people in Alaska like her
they have inferiority complexes, the ones that get together and raise h*ll at those rallies. it's a place for them to congregate and complain about how Whitey isn't nice enough to them. they want to take over the whole country, which they have, now they are after the White House, which they will get, if these stupid voters don't wake up, and they want more and more and more of everything: more welfare, more loans, bigger houses, better cars, more food stamps. shouldn't have given them a thing. now look at us.