“The governor left the obscenity-filled voicemail for Gattine last Thursday, after Gattine criticized the governor’s remarks at a town hall forum the night before as racially charged. Gattine has denied calling the governor a racist.
The governor said he’s been keeping a three-ring binder of arrested drug dealers in Maine, and he says 90 percent of the faces in it are black or Hispanic.
Several times since, LePage has continued to focus on the race of drug dealers, even as lawmakers have challenged his assertions.
He didn’t soften that position on Tuesday.”
For telling the truth I suppose.
> “The governor said he’s been keeping a three-ring binder of arrested drug dealers in Maine, and he says 90 percent of the faces in it are black or Hispanic.”
A century ago it was Irish and the Italians.
Today it is the Blacks and Hispanics.
It is cultural and I’m sure LaPage understands that. By cultural meaning broken families, poor education, lack of opportunities, etc.
LaPage appears to be following Trump’s lead in attacking those that create division by driving a wedge of racism into every issue. These wedge pilers, these provocateurs are not helping, they are not recognizing that LaPage has done more than they to solve problems. They are not solving anything, they are just adding to the problems.
Blacks and Hispanic underclasses are stuck where they are because democrats and liberal republicans have exploited them as victims of injustice.
It is not injustice that keeps them in the gutter. It is a lack of a heavy hand of discipline that they need in their formative years.
There’s a lack of discipline because the democrats have spent a large part of taxpayer dollars creating a brand of victims of racism. Any attempt to discipline the members of these underclasses during their formative years is seen as a continuation of racists beating their slaves. And Blacks themselves know this picture is wrong. They know that discipline is needed but they are stuck because no one has the stones to turn the situation around in the face of false allegations of racism.
Examples of the above abound around the world.
In the Caribbean West Indies, the Islands of St. Kiss and Nevis which are united under a composite flag and are easily within sight of each other, connected by commuter ferry boats, are more than 90% Black stemming from the history of the sugar fields worked by black African slaves.
Nevis is where Alexander Hamilton was born and raised. A hurricane caused devastation and he wrote about it. His writing was of sufficient caliber that he was brought to the mainland where he worked as a writer and received a more formal education. So Nevis has a history of producing incredible human beings, and they are not all white.
Today Nevis is populated mostly by Blacks who are law abiding with intact and strong families, who value education as witnessed by children required to do hours of homework every night without fail, by respect for elders and for tourist visitors.
The island of St. Kitts is another story. There is alcoholism, prostitution, theft, assaults, etc.
Both of these islands are small with St. Kitts being the larger, and they are very near to one another.
But the cultural differences of these mostly Black populated islands could not be more stark.
The difference is that the seat of the government resides on St Kitts whereas Nevis is governed mainly by elders of the island.
On Nevis, it is the Black fathers that discipline their children and Black mothers that assure the children are well-behaved and presentable in public.
On St. Kitts, where there are police, jails and strife, there is little discipline other than life in a jail. And when jails are emptied, the crime continues.
In other words, disciplining children on St. Kitts is much more difficult than on Nevis. The lack of discipline leads to broken families, government interference, and an overall vicious cycle. But on Nevis, the minute one child shows disrespect, there is a quick response of a heavy hand to teach the child proper hehavior.