[Vision2020] Palin's Poor Record with African Americans

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Dr. Gier,

I been round long time but I aint never no heard of Juneteenth celebration.

But I did heard of my homeboy Diddy.

"Alaska? Alaska? Alaska, Alaska, come on, man. I don't even know if
there's any black people in Alaska. If you really think that we're
going to let you win this election with these, like, crazy decisions
that you're making, November 4th, we have to protect our future
because John McCain is bugging the fuck out, okay? What is the reality
in Alaska? There's not even no crack heads in Alaska, no black people.
There's not even no, like me."
http://www.zimbio.com/P+Diddy/articles/354/What+no+Crackheads+in+Alaska

He be talkin like Bishop Dave Thomas: "We wasn't even able or allowed
to go into the meetings."

Give me a break.

If you want a job then you should ask for it based on your
qualifications to perform, which includes your ability to communicate
effectively, cause I aint never got hired by playin the race card.



On 10/15/08, nickgier at roadrunner.com <nickgier at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> How Sarah Palin Excluded African-Americans in Alaska
>  posted by Max Blumenthal on 10/14/2008 @ 01:55am
>  The Nation on the Web
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>  On April 29, 2008, 14 leaders of Alaska's black community met with Gov. Sarah Palin to voice discontent with her minority hiring record. Palin's response, which was first reported by journalist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, only compounded her icy relationship with her African-American constituents.
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>  Gwen Alexander, the president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, told me that Palin stated defiantly that she had no intention to hire any minority staffers. And according to Bishop Dave Thomas, senior pastor of Anchorage-based African-American church Jesus Holy Temple, the Palin administration excluded black business owners from the Alaskan oil and gas pipeline board. "We wasn't even able or allowed to go into the meetings" to seek contracts for the pipeline, Thomas told me.
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>  Palin further alienated Alaska's black community by becoming the first Alaskan governor in recent memory to not recognize the Juneteenth celebration of the emancipation proclamation. "She doesn't hire any black people, she doesn't have any on her staff, so it's not a surprise that she doesn't support our Juneteenth celebration," Alexander said.
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