Racist Paul LePage, Maine Guv, is at it again.

[Skeptic Ginger]

Paul LePage Tells John Lewis He Should 'Thank Lincoln For His Freedom'

Maine Governor Paul LePage weighed in on Donald Trump's attack on Rep. John Lewis by siding with the President-elect and demanded Rep. John Lewis look at history and give a "simple thank you" to the white men that gave him his freedom....

He continued, "I will just say this. John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, it was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant who fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple thank you would suffice.”

This is the same guy who said, “Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers.

Asked why he brought up the race of the suspects in his binder, LePage criticized the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for not printing all booking mugshots of those charged with trafficking in heroin.

“That’s what gave me the idea of going to the jail and getting the pictures, and then a couple of weeks later you started to print them again,” LePage said. “You know and I know and everybody in the state knows that the overwhelming majority of the people that have been arrested this year, coming out of Connecticut and New York, have been black and Hispanic, it’s not a matter of race,...

“These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty – these types of guys – they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home,” LePage said at the Bridgton meeting. “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 have to deal with down the road.”

When asked Thursday what he would say to those who believe he’s a racist, LePage said he is not, and that it angers him that his political rivals and the media assume he is racist.

He agreed with Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, that there was evidence of voter fraud because he saw blacks voting.

Gov. Paul LePage called Maine’s voting process into question Tuesday, saying that elections – which twice have put him in the governor’s mansion – aren’t “clean” because voters don’t have to show identification at the polls.

In 2012, then-Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster alleged voting irregularities in the election that November, claiming without evidence that hundreds of unknown black people showed up in some rural towns to vote on Election Day.

“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted,” Webster said. When questioned about his assertion he refused to provide details, and no proof was ever found that unknown people were voting fraudulently.

LePage is totally oblivious to how racist he sounds.

 

[Stacko]

I will just say this. Paul LePage ought to look at history.

But Hayes’ election actually kicked off Jim Crow laws. The governor’s interpretation ignores that and leaves out almost 100 years of history.

Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South, were in place from the late 1870s to the 1960s. Grant’s signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was largely ignored in the former Confederacy.

Then, Hayes won office under the Compromise of 1877, an informal deal after a contested election that gave him the White House in exchange for promising to pull Northern troops out of the South. It allowed Jim Crow laws to take root. That’s why Lewis and others marched in Alabama in 1965, where he was beaten by state troopers.

 

[Mumbles]

Okay, first, we gotta talk about these nicknames. "Smoothie"? That's a beverage. And "Shifty"?

Trust me, no black guy alive would willingly take on a nickname that sounds like some Dick Tracy character...

Uh, anyway, this is not exactly a shock from LePage. Hopefully the Maine dems can get it together next time their governorship is up for grabs and unite behind a single candidate. As I recall, they basically split their vote last time, which is why this racist, union-bashing fool is still around.

But regardless, his input is not welcome.

 

[Stacko]

Uh, anyway, this is not exactly a shock from LePage. Hopefully the Maine dems can get it together next time their governorship is up for grabs and unite behind a single candidate. As I recall, they basically split their vote last time, which is why this racist, union-bashing fool is still around.

Maine now has ranked choice voting for gubernatorial elections.

 

[Trebuchet]

He's no different from multiple posters on this very forum, who have repeatedly said that Democrats are the real racists because southern Dems opposed civil rights 70 years ago.

 

[Mumbles]

Maine now has ranked choice voting for gubernatorial elections.

That could help, as well...

 

[Foolmewunz]

He's no different from multiple posters on this very forum, who have repeatedly said that Democrats are the real racists because southern Dems opposed civil rights 70 years ago.

And who cite revisionist history, just like LePage, that fools no one other than those who want to be fooled, a bunch of folk who justify their bigotry by "Wait a minute! I didn't own any slaves. I can't be the problem."

 

[Loss Leader]

He's a jackass, but he just spoke aloud what most Republicans in government either believe or wish were true.

They want credit for ending slavery but they want to yada-yada over the last 60 years of fighting desegregation.

 

[willhaven]

He's a jackass, but he just spoke aloud what most Republicans in government either believe or wish were true.

They want credit for ending slavery but they want to yada-yada over the last 60 years of fighting desegregation.

It helps if you look at it in terms of progressivism.

In the 1860s, the Republicans were the social progressives.

Now the tables have turned.

But all of that nuance is, like, hard, and stuff.

 

[bruto]

I think it's very white of the gov to give credit to the white people who ended slavery and Jim Crow laws, and not to mention the non-white people who presumably established them.

 

[logger]

And who cite revisionist history, just like LePage, that fools no one other than those who want to be fooled, a bunch of folk who justify their bigotry by "Wait a minute! I didn't own any slaves. I can't be the problem."

Lol

None of us owned any slaves but we're still the problem?

 

[logger]

He's a jackass, but he just spoke aloud what most Republicans in government either believe or wish were true.

Total BS. The vast majority of America has fully accepted blacks including republicans in government, but please continue this dishonest narrative, it's helped you so much.

They want credit for ending slavery but they want to yada-yada over the last 60 years of fighting desegregation.

Its clear who the credit goes to ending slavery, your side seems to keep reliving it.

 

[logger]

He's no different from multiple posters on this very forum, who have repeatedly said that Democrats are the real racists because southern Dems opposed civil rights 70 years ago.

Its more accurate to say the Dems have destroyed the black community in America, solely to gain power.

 

[NoahFence]

Lol

None of us owned any slaves but we're still the problem?

Yep.

 

[Loss Leader]

This came into focus when Rand Paul tried giving a lecture at Howard, a traditionally African American college. He asked the students if they knew Republicans had created the NAACP. They answered in unison with this perfectly bored, "yes." And Paul was dumbfounded. He thought that was his big ace in the hole.

It turned out that the audience knew the NAACP's history, something Paul said he didn't know would be the case. "This is my first time to go to a historically black college," Paul said. "In retrospect, it sounds like it is a dumb question but it's like, Republicans haven't been going to Howard for 20 years." Most Americans, he noted, probably would not know that fact. "I learned something, that everybody there knows," he said. "I was told that in no uncertain terms."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-it-is-harder-for-me/?utm_term=.27f566ab8d4a

 

[Foolmewunz]

Lol

None of us owned any slaves but we're still the problem?

Who's this "us"? Are you self-identifying with racists? 'Cuz that's who I'm speaking about.

The point is that the new standard for conservatives is a bar that's that low. "I didn't man a firehose in Birmingham. I didn't lynch any black people. I never owned a slave in my life. Q.E.D., I'm not a racist. See? I proved it."

Total BS. The vast majority of America has fully accepted blacks including republicans in government, but please continue this dishonest narrative, it's helped you so much.

And women. That's why the Republican Congressional caucus is 83% white men. It seems that "accepting" means "tolerating them 'cuz we have to according to the law". It doesn't mean support or vote for or make welcome in the Party.

The majority (not vast, but majority nevertheless) is not racist. That is true. We are talking about the seamier dark underbelly of the conservative movement, who are blatant racists. When the rest of you defend LePage and Paladino and Duke as "not possibly a racist 'cuz they never owned any slaves" and hand-wave their bigotry away, you do yourselves and your country a disservice.

Its clear who the credit goes to ending slavery, your side seems to keep reliving it.

Yeah, it's clear. The mid-19th century alliance of progressives and abolitionists that formed the Republican Party. You didn't own no slaves, though. Similarly, you weren't part of the Republican Party of the 1860s. You can't deny one and claim the other. The Republican Party you grudgingly support (because it's the most conservative party available) put up a sign in 1964 - Reopening Soon Under New Management. That's the party your in favor of. If Abe Lincoln showed up here as a new poster, you'd spend all your time calling him a Lefty or a LOL Librul.

Its more accurate to say the Dems have destroyed the black community in America, solely to gain power.

Yeah, it's still fashionable to quote Lew Rockwell and the rest of the-south-will-rise-again revisionists like Coulter.... in certain circles (well, in an oval office tomorrow), but it's still revisionist bull feces.

 

[fuelair]

Paul LePage Tells John Lewis He Should 'Thank Lincoln For His Freedom'

This is the same guy who said, “Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers.

He agreed with Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, that there was evidence of voter fraud because he saw blacks voting.

Gov. Paul LePage called Maine’s voting process into question Tuesday, saying that elections – which twice have put him in the governor’s mansion – aren’t “clean” because voters don’t have to show identification at the polls.

LePage is totally oblivious to how racist he sounds is.

FTFY!!!!!!!!

 

[Craig4]

Paul LePage Tells John Lewis He Should 'Thank Lincoln For His Freedom'

The governor would you use his time better contemplating how that sub human piece of filth became the part of Lincoln's presidential nominee.

 

[fishbob]

Lol

None of us owned any slaves but we're still the problem?

Got that right.

 

[Mumbles]

This came into focus when Rand Paul tried giving a lecture at Howard, a traditionally African American college. He asked the students if they knew Republicans had created the NAACP. They answered in unison with this perfectly bored, "yes." And Paul was dumbfounded. He thought that was his big ace in the hole.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-it-is-harder-for-me/?utm_term=.27f566ab8d4a

The funny part is, Paul's actually the member of the GOP who does outreach to black people. He was the only person in the GOP who said "Hey, this is awful!" back when police were driving around in military equipment in Ferguson.

LePage is from the "I love elites and hate the lessers" wing of the GOP. As much as he's an obvious racist, truth is that he'll sell the average white person up the river, too.