Maine's Governor Openly Calls for Race War Against People of Color

As a Maine resident, I find the some of the governor's recent comments and actions to be inexcusable. However, the above post makes a leap of (il)logic that I don't believe is justified. LePage's "declaration of war" is against out-of-state people bringing illicit drugs to sell in Maine. He also falsely stated that nearly all such drug-importers/sellers people are Black or Hispanic. (The evidence clearly refutes this contention.)

For the OP's title to be correct, LePage would have to have declared war on ALL people of color, including Mainers whose in-state roots go back generations. His statements on the subject were ill-advised (an understatement), but exaggerating their scope merely offers his apologists room to discredit his critics.

 

Was the thread heading taken from a media article? I had no way of knowing who created it, and did not assign it to anyone. And LePage's "enemy" is specifically the drug dealers. That he then made the bogus 90%+ claim makes it look blatantly racist, when I suspect it was more ignorantly racist. Not sure which is worse.

That voicemail tirade is not his first one made in lost-temper mode, and while I don't think he has any intention of causing physical harm to the legislator, I also know that if I ever sent a similar message his way, I would soon be having long discussions with LEOs (and probably prison guards.)