Palin a Racist? (pardon me if this was posted already)

[ToddRodd]

"“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”

Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one."

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http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

[jakem]

1. debunked to my knowledge. do not spread.

the sambo bit anyway...

[NewJeffCT]

2. I've seen it before on DU - a week or so back

but, nobody has confirmed it was true...

[WeDidIt]

3. Aw jeez, not this shit again...

http://www.wickedsunshine.com/WagePeace/Election2004/Images/AwJeez,NotThisShitAgain!.jpg

You have unsourced claims. When you have audio tape, come back.

[ToddRodd]

5. Yeah. Good point. Just wondering.....

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Yes, Virginia, Sarah Palin's a racist.

She thinks killing arabs is the will of god.

Not to mention the antisemitism.

[apnu]

6. the sources for that article are dubious. (nt)

[applegrove]

7. Unfortunately quoting one person isn't enough proof to spread these allegations.

We need more proof. And since we don't have it we have to let it slide.

Sambo is a very old racial slur. One that might get the seniors going..those that are racist. So something like this could be a republican plant. It may play well to the portion of Americans who are old and racist.