"Wasilla was so white that there was only one African American in the entire school system. One day when the boy was in junior high school, Todd, then a senior, and two friends waylaid him by the gravel pit adjacent to Wasilla High and beat him up, simply because he was black. 'Sure, Todd was a racist bully, but that just made him one of the guys. Growing up black in Wasilla was hell.'" — from The Rogue, by Joe McGinniss
(Cartoon and text courtesy of Doonesbury.com)
I have to tell you that this just sickens me. I am so ashamed that this person became the living representative of my state. And I want all of you to know that not ALL Alaskans are ignorant gun toting racists.
But clearly our half term Governor and her pimp of a husband are.
Perhaps later, when I am not quite so pissed off, I will tell you a story about my brush with racism and how I handled it. I will give you this hint, Todd Palin would have had a VERY different experience if he had gone to my high school!
