Sarah Palin sure was able to groove like a black person on SNL during the Alaskan rap segment. But, how well does she fair with the African-Americans where she governs? Here's an excerpt from the New York Daily News that talks about just that:
"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." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the article in it's entirety here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/18/2008-10-18_alaskan_black_leaders_call_sarah_palin_i.html
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