Utica New York resident Timothy W. Day has been arrested on Friday, March 13, for threatening to kill New York Gov. David Paterson last September, various newspapers are reporting. He was going to do so, he said on an answering machine, because he was "sick" of African Americans "running around ... and hollering every time something is said, that it's racism."

The answering machine belonged to an Assemblywoman. This is how the message started:

"Ah, I just got home from work and I was watching the news and I was kind of amazed about the comment that our Governor made about the woman who is running for vice president with John McCain," Day said in the message, according to the charges.  "I really think you should say something to him."

"The woman," of course is Gov. Sarah Palin. The comment in question was in response to Palin's most successful lines in the speech--written by Matthew Scully--that she gave at the Republican Party nominating convention last fall. (*see irony alert below*)

"So I suppose a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except with real responsibilities," she said. She repeated variations of the line on the trail, stressed the term, "community organizer." Paterson, who is black, said such repetition was masked racism.

"I think where there are overtones is when there are uses of language that are designed to inhibit other people's progress with a subtle reference to their race," Paterson said at the time.

Day ended the message this way: "If I ever see that guy in Upstate New York ... that blind black (expletive) ... I'll (expletive) kill him."

So says that pro-American from one of the pro-America parts of the country.

(*irony alert* Scully also wrote one an extremely compelling book about animal rights from the Christian Right perspective. Dominion is a call to conservatives for a just treatment of animals. He has particularly harsh things to say about hunting groups.)