It was 1990 when the then Sarah Heath had a brief encounter with trombonist for the Duke Ellington Band Charles Greg Royal. She was talking to him in a friendly manner at a restaurant in Anchorage, Alaska. He's a black man with very light skin who could easily pass for white. But then a couple of more obviously black members of the band came up to join in the conversation. She got very nervous and started to excuse herself. "I don't mess with black men," she told Royal. "But I'm a black man," he told her. "But you're not really black," she replied. And now as governor of Alaska for the last two years Sarah Palin is said to basically have no relations with most of Alaska's minorities, and an adversarial relationship with the state's largest minority, the Eskimoes or Native Americans. She is said to have hired very few minority people to work in her administration. See http://www.counterpunch.org/washington10082008.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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