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Republican Gov. Paul LePage from Maine should resign.

Quick. Fast. And in a hurry.

LePage offered a feeble apology last week for his ill-advised comments about out-of-state drug dealers impregnating young white girls, calling it a mistake and claiming he didn’t mean to inject racial opinions into the debate about Maine’s heroin epidemic.

But he did. And LePage, I believe, knew exactly what he was saying. I don’t believe it was a slip of the tongue, I don’t believe he misspoke. I believe he feels strongly about Black male stereotypes and interracial relationships and he expressed his views without reservation.

How can LePage objectively set legislative policies that also impacts African-American men if he makes comments like this? LaPage described drug dealers as “guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” and added, “Half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave.”

“I was going impromptu, and my brain didn’t catch up to my mouth. Instead of ‘Maine women,’ I said ‘white women,’” said LePage, who’s white. He noted that, according to the census, Maine is the nation’s whitest state.

When asked if the nicknames for the drug dealers imply they are black, LePage replied, “I don’t know where they’re from. I don’t know if they’re white, black, Asian.”

Yeah, right.

For LePage, a public servant, there is no place in politics – or in American discourse – for a governor to display this kind of primitive racial rhetoric.

It’s a dangerous pattern for Republicans and LePage’s comments harken back to time when Black men were lynched for just looking at white women.

The Republican Party claims that it wants to be racially inclusive and reach out to African-Americans, but too often I find myself writing columns about Republican men, like LePage, who cross the line with offensive racial remarks – and then apologize, claiming they misspoke.

It’s absurd.

LePage’s comments come as more white supremacists are rallying around Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and some whites who attend Trump’s rallies are becoming more racially hostile toward black people.

Last month, during the altercation in Alabama, Mercutio Southhall said he was repeatedly called the N-word and “monkey” as racist supporters of Trump seemed to be following Trump’s orders to remove Southhall from the rally.

Maine’s Governor Needs To Go  was originally published on blackamericaweb.com

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