(Please click the title to have your heart broken by Nick Tuckers emotional plea and Governor Palin's dismissive response.)
Look how eloquently Mr. Tucker expresses the needs of his people and look how uncomfortable Palin becomes when he will not accept her standard BS in lieu of a real solution to their crisis.
I cannot believe she still has the gall to use her husband as an example of a "native that did good" by leaving the villages. The place that he grew up in Dillingham, Alaska , is NOTHING like the small villages in the Yukon Delta! That is so incredibly insulting! And he NEVER worked on the slope and returned to live in Dillingham either! (I covered that on February 20th.) That is an out and out lie!
God she is absolutely empty inside.
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Watching her condescending attitude toward this elegant and intelligent man was painful.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if I just give him a hug he'll go away. Darn! That didn't work, I guess I'll nod and make assinine suggestions about rural Alaskans all getting jobs in Prudhoe instead.
Where are all these resource jobs she is talking about? Does she not get that they don't exist and that even if they did, working outside their communities is not what these people want. She's so hell bent on going home every night and being with her family, yet she doesn't understand that other people have that same desire.
Sarah's only reference point for what it means to be Native is her husband. Ah yes, Todd: raised by a white man in the non-Native communities of Glenallen and Wasilla, with tenuous connections to the Native community exemplified by summer visits to his 1/4 Yupik grandmother and white grandfather in the CITY of Dillingham (says it right there on the Dillingham webpage).
She not only has no clue, she has no clue that she has no clue.
I saw this video and it made me SICK! That bitch could not get away fast enough from Nick! She has absolutely no RESPECT for ELDERS!!!
ReplyDeleteHer winky/blinky shit didn't work on him and she wanted out!
I wish that would of been Ann S's village, she would of grabbed GINO's face and said "look here...!"
OMG! I just want to hex her out the universe, but wiccan ways won't let me... :(
Karma, Karma, Karma.....
And Secret Shopper on the 'Flats heard she CANNOT stand the name GINO! so GINO, GINO, GINO...WHERE'S GINO????`
She sure looked like she wanted to say, "I have a headache, excuse me" while Nick Tucker was speaking to her.
ReplyDeleteThat video should be put into a transcript and posted on the ADN Political Blog.
Mr. Tucker shows he has more respect for this undeserving of respect GINO in one millimeter of one whorl of his little pinkie than GINO has in the entirety of her being towards this man and the culture he represents.
ReplyDeleteI'm not Alaskan, nor native, but, as a fellow American, I was proud of Mr. Tucker for approaching the clueless GINO--he is ever so much more exemplary an Alaskan and an American than GINO.
My brother-in-law and I were discussing politicians, and we agreed that they are either a) in politics to BE somebody, or b) in politics to DO something (helpful).
I think most of us posters know which category GINO falls into. Except maybe that is giving her too much credit. Perhaps a third category: c) in politics to get as much moola and perks for yourself and your family as possible before you are caught.
Hey GINO I'm still waitin' on that DNA testing you offered to do for the ADN that you didn't really mean because you were "half-joking".
When I first read about the crisis in Emmonak on your blog, Gryphen, I called the only Alaskan phone numbers I could find listed on blogs at the time to see where I could send a check for heating fuel. This was concurrent with when you had placed a PayPal button on your blog to send Dennis Zaki to the rural villages. Through a circuitous route, trying to figure out who could accept a check for Emmonak, I called a phone number which someone in Alaska had provided for me. When I began to speak with the person on the other end of the line, I realized through the context of our conversion who he was -- Nick Tucker! I told him how "eloquent" his letter was, and he very politely emphasized that he had not tried to be "eloquent" at all ... that instead he knew what his people needed was action, and as long as his letter brought genuine action to meet the true needs of those living in Emmonak and under the same conditions in other villages, then that was his objective.
ReplyDeleteI will never forget the conversation I had with Mr. Tucker over the phone that day and how privileged and humbled I felt to have been able to speak with such a decent and good man. I'm sure Mr. Tucker would not have wanted me to feel privileged to talk with him; for him, commitment to his people's well-being is as natural as breathing ... I am sure of it.
So this is completely baffling to me: why would Sarah Palin act as if people should feel privileged to meet her when Nick Tucker has more class in his pinky finger than she has in the entirety of her being? I can't even bring myself to be snarky here. There is absolutely no comparison between Gov. Palin and Mr. Tucker. She should feel privileged to have met HIM!
"I just want to hex her out of the universe, but wiccan ways won't let me... :("
ReplyDeleteI'LL hex her out--someone send a recipe please.
I tried to watch the video, but had to stop. I should probably finish it, but it's disturbing to watch.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, I'm no fan of Sarah Palin. But, I'm wondering what it is you expect her to do?
ReplyDeleteOthers shouldn't be expected to subsidize their lifestyle.
If they can't afford to live there, they need to move to where they can support themselves.
Aside from the numerous reasons that justification doesn't work, if Sarah Palin thinks that no attention should be paid by the state government to the problems of Bush Alaska, then she should come right out and say it, rather than treating a grown man like an annoying child, with the kind of transparent, dismissive condescension that she would never show to a white person.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Anon at 1:19, here is just one thought that probably is pretty simplistic. I don't live anywhere near Alaska and don't pretend to understand much about rural Alaska issues. But it seems that this rural, subsistence culture is one of the foundations of what "Alaska" is all about--or at least supposed to be all about. It is part and parcel of "rugged, independent Alaska" and is really at its heart. If they cannot survive, it is just another step towards a mass market mentality where everything starts to look more and more the same. Those communities are more valuable to the state than can be calculated on a balance sheet. So, yes, the flow of funds will be into the communities for some time until some restructuring "in" the communities can occur. But then, I don't think they will want anything other than to function on their own. Perhaps this is psycho dribble.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 1:19,
ReplyDeleteLet's say you are a farmer and you use the river nearby to irrigate your crops and this is how you've been farming for countless generations.
Then, one day, the water flowing down the river begins to diminish until the trickle that remains is nowhere near enough to produce a decent harvest.
The farmer is like the native Alaskans.
The river is like the annual salmon run.
What is the reason for the river drying up? Why have the salmon stopped running? You'll have to do a little research to come up with the answers, but it isn't the natives' faults. They've lived in harmony with the land forever.
After you figure out why this winter fell so hard on the villages, I hope you'll retract your suggestion that the people of those villages should just pick up and move elsewhere.
Ennealogic - The Yukon River is not drying up.
ReplyDeleteNor have the salmon stopped running.
I suggest YOU "do a little research."
If the natives "live in harmony with the land", why are the villages void of wildlife for a ten mile radius?
Oh and, FYI, winter always falls hard in Alaska.
"Nor have the salmon stopped running."
ReplyDeleteThey sure as hell have. Salmon runs in the Bristol Bay area have collapsed, mostly from commercial overfishing, which is the reason why the villages are starving.
You're the one who needs to do the research, idiot.
"why are the villages void of wildlife for a ten mile radius?"
Where are you getting that nonsense? You obviously are ignorant about rural Alaska.
The salmon are still running. Here's the sonar counts:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/yukon/docs/2008/YukonUpdate-Aug08-08.pdf
The timing was different because of colder ocean currents.
The reason there's no wildlife within a ten mile radius is because of snowmachines, four wheelers and high powered rifles. I have traveled extensively on the North Slope and know this to be fact. There are no caribou or birds that hang out around the villages or they are dead, it is that simple, idiot!