Palin Left Hawaii Because There Was Too Many Hawaiians.
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 [Scott] Conroy and [Shushannah] Walshe [authors of ‘Sarah From Alaska’]. 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.” [Bold Mine]
And now it is all starting to make sense. Of course she is the Birther Queen. We have seen the polls where 25% of those who are Birthers do not even believe that Hawaii is a state.
But think about that statement from her father for a minute. “Being a minority wasn’t glamorous.” I have been to many places in the world and in our own country where my white skin made me a minority. Rather than feeling awkward, self conscious or nervous, I was curious and interested in my surroundings. I guess I don’t think about race personally, or don’t view it as a dividing factor between myself and others not like me. I guess that is the difference between me and those like Sarah Palin, the know nothings of this country who constantly need to feel like they are superior to all. Indeed, if Palin had stayed, perhaps she could have finally learned something for once, like how it is to be a minority. I think many minorities hear Heath’s comment (“being a minority wasn’t glamorous”) and think “well he doesn’t have to tell us that.” But poor little Sarah Palin couldn’t be bothered. If it is not glamorous she is not into it.
I am becoming more and more convinced that John McCain should be tried in The Hague for selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. It is a crime against all humanity foisting the Birther Queen upon us all.
I read that in an entirely different way – that Hawaii’s lack of glamour, combined with the heavy minority presence, made her not like it.
It’s not really an improvement, but I just don’t think you can logically parse that quote to read that being a minority = not glamorous.
anon,
I don’t think your reading is that different but I interpret it the same way DD does – Palin was a minority there (not Pacific Islander) and didn’t like it.
Anon…. that is not what I am saying at all. I am saying that is what Palin is saying, that being a minority is not glamorous.
UI, that is correct.
That statement is sad… any way you read it.
“They were a minority type thing…”
Lord, help us: either he’s calling his daughter a thing, or he’s calling minority populations a thing…in any case, he’s referring to some person as “thing”.
sigh.