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September 18, 2008
How does Sarah Palin stack up on diversity in her own state?
Plus, do ex-cons deserve a place at the polls?
Check out the two-part bloggers' roundtable below, recorded live in our studio at NPR West.
Joining in this edition of blogger's roundtable are Carmen Dixon of All About Race, Kevin Ross of Three Brothers and a Sister, and Marc Lamont Hill.
Laura Ingram continues to sound off the democrats want to make it about race, that the democrats are the racists.
Please, what the roundtable has disclosed (and I preceive them to be accurate)is Palin appears to lean to who she is familiar and that is not very diversified.
She brings her divisionist mentallity to the administration if the republicans win, which I believe is the underlying soul gratification of the republicans.
A GOP candidate that doesn't champion diversity, wow, what a concept.
Being a vice president of the USA is not the place for her to be to figure out if she cares about other RACES or not. We need someone who cares about the welfare of all individuals at all times before they elected. We need change immediately or the USA is in for a world of trouble. We may not last another four years without change. It has taken the world a long time to respect others and we still have a long way to go. We can not afford to move backwards. We need to move forward as a whole. If some people in the world is out of sight, out of mind she is definetly not a good canidate for the position.
Palin doesn't seem to have very little if any experience dealing with the African American communities and I know she or John McCain will not do much of anything for the African American communities all around America if they should happen to win. How many African American's live in Alaska and does Alaskan cities have the trouble of gang violence, murders and gun violence that so many cities across America have? How does John McCain and Sarah Palin plan on handling the crises of increasing violent crimes and violent gangs in America. I don't blame Sen. Hillary Clinton for not wanting to stand on the same stage has Sarah Palin because Sarah Palin is so fake and phoney it is not funny and I mean it is not funny because this fake and phoney person sad to say might end up as our next vice president and that is very, very, scarey!
I'M NOT SHOCKED ITS THE GOP TICKET
A BUNCH OF RACIST AND DO NOTHING FOR OTHER IF YOU ARE NOT RICH TICKET
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCSAME/PALIN
I can relate to the fears of Palin in VP position and likely become President...scary! But, African-Americans must do more to help ourselves. One thing is to do something on grass-root level in the home to address VIOLENCE in our communities. THAT is our major problem. Where are our morals? When did we get so messed up?
Unfortunately, the GOP has no cute about the Black Community. Those who are Black and are members of the Republican Party, should examine what the Republican Party is doing to be inclusive. Not very much.
Sarah Palin has no interest in Black
people or Native people in Alaska.
She is a BIMBO AND AN AIRHEAD REPUBLICAN.
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