A Minority Thing

by digby

Isaac Chotiner at TNR caught this rather startling revelation from a New Yorker review of Going Rogue and another book about Sarah Palin called Sarah From Alaska by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe:


Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.” Perhaps not. But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”


Chotiner wonder why this hasn't been discussed at all. I can only assume that it's because the media has a liberal bias. Oh wait ...

But it does explain why she is one of those people who seem to think there's something hinky about Obama's citizenship. She's uncomfortable about all those odd foreign-ish people from Hawaii and Obama, with his mixed race and Hawaiian background quite naturally might be foreign too.


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