The Vicious Bigoted Racism of Sarah Palin @sarahpalinusa #p2 #tcot

As Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin treated the African-American community of her state with utter contempt and disrespect.  African-Americans make up 4% of the population of Alaska, a percentage double that of Jews nationwide.  In Anchorage, black people constitute about 7% of the population.  Yet Palin, like Bush before her, refused proposed meetings with African-American leaders to discuss their concerns that she was discriminating against black people.  On the one occasion when she finally did meet with black leaders, and they communicated to her their distress that she included not a single African-American person on her staff, she told them that she did not have to employ any and did not intend to.  She snubbed and insulted the African-American community, and indeed, all decent Americans, in other very significant ways.  As Ronald V. Myers, Sr. put it, for example, "Juneteenth is an official state holiday observance in Alaska which requires the Governor to issue an annual proclamation.  Despite the statute, Gov. Palin did not issue a Juneteenth Proclamation in 2007."  Note that Palin very deliberately did not acknowledge the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in America, but that she did as governor record a greeting for the Alaska Independence Party, a secessionist group with white supremacist leanings. 

            In her book "America by Heart," Palin very savagely demeans Attorney General Eric Holder for having said that the United States is a "nation of cowards" in its dealings with issues of race.  Holder delivered an extremely serious-minded, eloquent speech about race in contemporary America, but instead of addressing the issues he raised, and committing to work towards some of the laudable goals Holder described, Palin chose to demonize him, and by extension, President Obama, because he had given the speech.  In essence, Palin is telling her overwhelmingly white followers that anybody who wishes to speak about eliminating racism and anti-minority discrimination in the United States should just shut up.

            Not once in her book does Palin acknowledge that in present day America, race-based injustices exist.  Furthermore, she treats the country's history of race-based injustice as though it were some trifling matter barely worthy of mention and certainly not worthy of coloring our views of the founding fathers in any way.  Palin actually states that those founding fathers who expressed an understanding of the nightmare horrors of slavery  had to "compromise" with those who supported slavery for the benefit of "the Union," as she calls it.  She depicts those founders as praiseworthy for having accepted a "compromise" by which black human beings were enslaved, tortured, maimed and killed.  These founding fathers had the political will to throw off British rule but not to end slavery.  A fine compromise they made.

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