Sarah Palin's Father, Chuck Heath: "She Left Hawaii Because Asians Made Her Uncomfortable"

Here we go. Another Sarah Palin controversy is brewing. I haven't blogged about her for a long time, but I just couldn't ignore this latest turn of events. Why did she leave Hawaii? Well, the New Yorker's Sam Tanenhaus writes in a review of "Going Rouge," that Palin's father suggested to reporters, who wrote "Sarah From Alaska," that she left Hawaii because there were too many Asians. The account clearly contradicts the former Alaska governor's own description of her reasons for leaving college in Hawaii after only one semester.

Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled 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." In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, "because it was much like Alaska yet still 'Outside.'" Source: The Huffington Post

Why this didn't garner more media attention is amazing. The passage was first flagged by Issac Chotiner at The New Republic. So, I guess it's safe to say, she feels like this about other ethnic backgrounds as well. Way to go Sarah. The truth comes out eventually.