In Secret Recording, A Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives ‘Woke’ And ‘Racists’

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Eledge tries to hide her racism by blaming the victims of her racism.

And she is getting away with it.

Has the Begich family gone along with it?

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Geez, the racism is just oozing out of the walls these days.

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I’m wondering if people like this share the same DNA with Fox News, or if Fox News caused the mutation in their genome.

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Hiding? Jeez, I suspect a few conservative southerners of the old school are thinking she needs to chill out.

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For real. And kudos to all the press people and publications that are on it. The light they’re shining lately, as in this report, is much needed.

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That’s their plan, to make themselves appear normal.

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Not exactly pulling that off well.

I have been dithering if it really is they began to feel enabled when the Trump era began or if there is some flex happening, possibly from not be able to keep up with societal change. I originally was going with the former. But with all this knee jerk, aggressive behavior suddenly developing, I am wondering. They feel threatened by it all and act out in lieu of trying to sort it out and get on with life. The pressure is getting to them.

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“I happened to live in Barrow,” she said, referring to the mostly Inupiat city that residents in 2016 renamed Utqiagvik. “They consider themselves Inupiat Eskimos but they got a bunch of woke, liberal, I consider racist Native people, young people. … It’s all about, ‘We stole their land.’ Which is bullshit!”

“We should solve this by sending 'em back to where they came from!”

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Character = what you do or say when no one is watching. Obviously this nice lady isn’t hip to smart phones.

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Best of luck with that.

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Wypipo.

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“I happened to live in Barrow,” she said, referring to the mostly Inupiat city that residents in 2016 renamed Utqiagvik. “They consider themselves Inupiat Eskimos but they got a bunch of woke, liberal, I consider racist Native people, young people. … It’s all about, ‘We stole their land.’ Which is bullshit!”

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N before I catch an @

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Can we just appoint a DoJ receiver? You know, like they would in Michigan in the old days…

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I don’t subscribe to this site to read about a non-PC librarian. Why should I care about this trivial nonsense at all? Journalism better, TPM.

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Racism (even closeted) isn’t trivial.

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You know who else is part Native American? Sarah Palin’s husband, now ex husband Todd. He’s a descendant, part of the Inuit tribe. They’re grandchildren are eligible for through the Indian health service. I doubt this wretch of a woman would say these awful things to him because of his status plus friendships kind of tamp down this stuff.

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library employees were working to “wipe out everything white in the world.”

Let me know when they get to the Arctic.

so of course pedophile is next

Republicans think a lot about sex with children. To be fair, they have a lot to work through… I mean, like whether it’s okay or not, how old or young, marriage or not, abortion or not, is it okay for the School Super to do, or the mayor, boys and girls, one or a dozen…?

Hang in there, conservatives!

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They’re offended that their myopic POV is not welcome in a civil society.

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