CNN: Asked at a town hall meeting what his administration was doing to combat the state's drug issues, [Gov Paul] LePage referenced new legislation aimed at traffickers, then delivered what many are describing as a racially-charged explanation.
"These aren't the people who take drugs," LePage said, in comments first reported by the Portland Press Herald. "These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we've go to deal with down the road."
A spokesman for LePage, Peter Steele, said the governor wasn't discussing race.
It's kind of similar to what is described in this earlier post about Germany. Identifying perpetrators, in any way other than a victimhood narrative, is now an unpardonable, unforgivable error.
