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Maybe he brought race into his comments because in looking at the police reports and with input from his state's social workers, he saw that the criminal element coming into Maine just happened to be almost 100% black in race.
Stereotypes exist because of real life observations, not because many people happened to have had identical imaginary nightmares.
I asked a question. Was it necessary for him to race bait and turn this into a "the Blacks are coming to ruin your state and your women"? Did he have to do that? Could he have talked about criminals coming in from outside of Maine without bringing on racial fear-mongering? Yes or No? Just answer the question.
The majority of your posts are you whining about how you have been treated as a black man. Your posts are all about how blacks have been done wrong by whites. All you do is complain about your plight as a black man. Therefore, you are racially motivated.
Prove us wrong by a week of making posts without any references to your blackness or the injustices done by whites to the black race. Instead, make posts in other forums. Perhaps discuss your favorite type of car, sport or hobby.
Actually, you would be wrong. The majority of posts I make aren't about that. I make posts about racism that I've been through, but they aren't the majority of my posts. And you have no room to talk. You've made posts basically complaining about Blacks. You are more racially motivated than I am. How about you don't make any more negative statements about Black people.
By the way, I don't go on complaining about the entire White population. I even talk about things in terms of racism not being limited to Whites. I don't go into fear mongering and saying "all non-Blacks are like this" or the like.
After LePage being shown to be full of crap, you want to move goal posts and focus on Lewiston. How about this? I’ll blame both, right along with the 60 percent of criminals in Maine that are White.
Here is the thing. Some persons agree with what LePage said. Some people are glad that LePage said what he said, but won't come right out and say so. Instead, when there is no excuses for what LePage said, diversion from the topic is the next course of action.
The majority of your posts are you whining about how you have been treated as a black man. Your posts are all about how blacks have been done wrong by whites. All you do is complain about your plight as a black man. Therefore, you are racially motivated.
Prove us wrong by a week of making posts without any references to your blackness or the injustices done by whites to the black race. Instead, make posts in other forums. Perhaps discuss your favorite type of car, sport or hobby.
You should talk. You have a consistent track record of posts expressing racial animus and hostility towards African Americans and often Latinos with tired stereotyping.
Hence you have absolutely no moral standing nor credibility to make such comments. And they will be seen accordingly on their merits (IOW, none at all).
You should talk. You have a consistent track record of posts expressing racial animus and hostility towards African Americans and often Latinos with tired stereotyping.
Hence you have absolutely no moral standing nor credibility to make such comments. And they will be seen accordingly on their merits (IOW, none at all).
And that shows a level of hypocrisy. I mention experiences that have happened to me, but said person constantly complains and puts down other races of people. At least in my case, I talk about experiences that I went through. I don't put down an entire race of people.
As for LePage, some of us know he was wrong for trying to turn the crime issues in Maine into "Blacks are coming for you and the White women". This was suppose to be a criminals going to Maine but LePage used it as an opportunity for racial fear-mongering.
You are missing the point that 40% of the drug crimes are committed by blacks and Hispanics which are only about 3% of the population. That is hugely disproportionate. It is very unfair to label blacks and Hispanics as being bad for the State and LePage should have gotten his facts straight, but the fact remains that out-of-state black and Hispanic druggies are a problem disproportionate to the numbers of blacks and Hispanics that live in Maine. The same is true here in VT.
No one is dismissing anything. People like me are simply saying that LePage did not need to say what he said. He shouldn't have said it. Yes, there are drug dealers going to Vermont and Maine and they have caused problems. LePage did not need to turn it into "see what happens when Blacks come here" or "Blacks and other minorities are the enemy here" or "they're coming for the White women". First of all, if said women are getting pregnant by low-life drug dealers, that says alot about those said women as well as the men they procreated with. And in that instance, does it really matter what race those men were or what race those women were? I don't think this was LePage putting his foot in his mouth. I truly believe he was race baiting. If the governor in the state I live in said things like that I would never vote for him again.
I asked a question. Was it necessary for him to race bait and turn this into a "the Blacks are coming to ruin your state and your women"? Did he have to do that? Could he have talked about criminals coming in from outside of Maine without bringing on racial fear-mongering? Yes or No? Just answer the question.
Yes, IMO it's necessary, especially in light of journalists writing articles like this one in the NYT that the whiteness of NH, ME and VT is a problem... when it's not a problem at all, but a PLUS.
NH, ME and VT are under constant criticism and attach for being so white. We love our states just the way they are. And so what if LePage made those comments? Who isn't tired of all this PC nonsense and white guilt?
Yes, IMO it's necessary, especially in light of journalists writing articles like this one in the NYT that the whiteness of NH, ME and VT is a problem... when it's not a problem at all, but a PLUS.
NH, ME and VT are under constant criticism and attach for being so white. We love our states just the way they are. And so what if LePage made those comments? Who isn't tired of all this PC nonsense and white guilt?
This article was written this month, this year. LePage's comments were from February 2016.
So what if LePage made those comments? He is basically saying "Blacks are the enemy" with his comments. What kind of leader, what kind of governor says things like that, race baits? Only the links of Dixiecrat governors like Orval Faubus, George Wallace, and Lester Maddox would do things like that. LePage just put himself in the same boat as those persons with his comments.
What is the point of LePage race baiting and whipping up racial fear-mongering? How is that suppose to help anyone, especially minorities already living in Maine(I know there aren't many, but I doubt they would want a governor like that in their state)? And why should I be okay with what LePage said?
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