Paul LePage (R) thought he had been too subtle in expressing his views on black and Hispanic people in the past. On Friday, LePage first denied that Maine police officers were racially profiling people ― an obvious concern if they really are arresting almost exclusively people of color for drug crimes. Then the governor suggested that people of color in Maine were “the enemy.”“Look, a bad guy is a bad guy, I don’t care what color it is. When you go to war, if you know the enemy, the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red, don’t you?” he said. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority right now coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin.

Source: Huffington Post August 26, 2016 19:52 UTC