men with nicknames like "D-Money" are coming from cities to sell heroin and "impregnate" Maine's wh

[lucas80]

As a fan of Good Fellas and other assorted mafia movies he could have gotten away with the nicknames. The white girls comment was clearly a racist jab. Why mention white girls if you aren't insinuating the males are not white?
It's also silly to blame out of state dealers. The folks inside Maine are doing a good job dealing and consuming drugs on their own, you can't blame out of state dealers for enticing innocent Mainers into a life of heroin.

 

[The Tradition]

As a fan of Good Fellas and other assorted mafia movies he could have gotten away with the nicknames. The white girls comment was clearly a racist jab. Why mention white girls if you aren't insinuating the males are not white?
It's also silly to blame out of state dealers. The folks inside Maine are doing a good job dealing and consuming drugs on their own, you can't blame out of state dealers for enticing innocent Mainers into a life of heroin.

Hint: There are no black Mainers.

 

[BigDelHawk]

In his defense, he claims that he never said anything about black males in his original statement. Only white girls.....

 

[timinatoria]

I found a picture of D Money the H dealer. Turns out this isn't a racist thing after all.

 

[Kenneth Griffin]

I think his point was if you dont want to lose your girl to a negro you better get her some heroin.

 

[ChrisVarick]

On the bright side the number of 4 and 5 star athletes will see a significant increase in Maine.

 

[artradley]

I'm not 100% clear on your statement.

Clearly everybody is in agreement that as a whole, it was an incredibly dumb, ultimately racist comment to make, especially for an elected official.

As directed towards me, are you saying I'm being disingenuous because I'm trying to suggest that it wasn't about race until he mentioned 'white girls'? If in fact, that is what you meant I would argue it's far from disingenuous, but more my inclination to spark discussion. In your justification, you chose to eliminate 2 of the 3 nicknames the Gov actually used, to contrast to 'white girl'. I'm sure it's no coincidence that you chose D money, instead of sneaky, or shifty, or whatever the other ones were. In away, by eliminating the other two nicknames, you are using rhetoric to develop a narrative to justify your point, which is exactly what I was saying the Gov was doing by issuing the statement in the first place.

I only used one of the three names to parallel your selective use of just "Shifty". After that, I guess I just don't understand your point. That it may have been racist, but that's okay because he was just trying to scare his constituents? That it wasn't racist if you take out the racist bits?

 

[linkshero]

I only used one of the three names to parallel your selective use of just "Shifty". After that, I guess I just don't understand your point. That it may have been racist, but that's okay because he was just trying to scare his constituents? That it wasn't racist if you take out the racist bits?

No, not my points.....and it's disingenuous to suggest so.

 

[soybean]

Too late...

 

[artradley]

No, not my points.....and it's disingenuous to suggest so.

Well, it was a paraphrase of your posts, and I was "genuinely" asking for you to clarify the point you're trying to make.

 

[KitingHigh]

Too late...

Crap.

I used to date a Californian girl that went to U Maine. I see why now. She was a damn supermodel there.