I've already done a posting about how Black Alaskans feel about their governor,Sarah Palin.Today she told commentator,Glen Beck,that since Obama won "color is no longer a barrier". Well, I hope she realizes what she said should be true,but that it is not. In his case,Obama was able to overcome the color barrier & become the first black president of the U.S. But,the barrier is still up in many cases all over this country.And we can look at the state of Alaska as an example of that.In case you didn't catch my previous post on this subject,you can get the gist of it from this excerpt from The Huffington Post:
"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.
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 Juneenth celebration," Alexander said."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/how-sarah-palin-has-exclu_b_134403.html
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