If you watched the video above and were left speechless by the blatant racism you aren’t the only one. Sadly, these are the men that hold power in the communities in America.
Here’s a transcription of the Governor’s statement:
These aren’t people who take drugs, these are guys that are named D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty… [Laughter] These type of guys who come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here they sell their heroin then they go back home. Incidentally half they time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue that we gotta deal with down the road.
Maine Governor Paul LePage said all of this with a straight face and what makes it overly racist is that he implies in every way that it’s black men who are the problem. His use of the stereotypical nicknames and his disgust over impregnating white girls makes it sickening to think that he’s in charge of the well-being of African-Americans in that state.