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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