Palin's Appointments

More race trouble for Sarah Palin. No sooner had the Daily Beast’s Max Blumenthal reported that the Alaska governor has a poor record on employing blacks but her Alaska Native rural relations advisor resigned citing Mrs. Palin’s lack of commitment to diversity towards Native Alaskans. Natives make up one in five Alaskans, but Mrs. Palin finds it hard to appoint them to key posts, even though the first dude, her husband Todd, is part Yup'ik Eskimo. Her 13-member cabinet includes two. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that in a couple of cases Mrs. Palin conspicuously replaced Native office holders with whites.