I’m not so interested in the Sarah Palin book, but I’m depressed that this is still getting tossed around (h/t reader JK):
Certainly his wife expressed this view when she said during the 2008 campaign that she had never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections. In retrospect, I guess this shouldn’t surprise us, since both of them spent almost two decades in the pews of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church listening to his rants against America and white people.
Two hundred years of slavery, a hundred years of Jim Crow laws, and then 40 years of a political system based on fear of young bucks buying T-bone steaks, and, still, if an African-American steps out of the Lee Greenwood zone for 10 seconds, it just shows that they suffer from irrational post-colonialist rage.