THE CRUX OF IT: Bias and bigotry drive the law in the state of Maine.

 

 

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R)

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) recently stated that guys with names like “Smoothie”, “D-Money”, and “Shifty” were flowing over the borders of his state selling drugs and impregnating their white girls before they leave.

I DID NOT MAKE THAT UP! THOSE WERE HIS ACTUAL WORDS!!

That caused some small degree of alarm.

He continued his verbal profiling by adding, “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. “You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority right now coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin. I can’t help that. I just can’t help it. Those are the facts.”

 

Let’s attack his logic – ferociously.

Maine has a population that is 95 % white, yet this mental giant claims that 90% of the related crime is committed by black and brown people. That would mean that less than 5% ( part of that population would have to also be Asian, Indigenous, or Middle Eastern-and he did not comment on those groups) of the total population is provably more criminal than the entire other 90% due to their nature alone.

If black and white people sell drugs, or commit drug related crime at the same rate according to statics and National reports, yet almost exclusively black and brown people are  arrested – then doesn’t  that LOGICALLY mean that the same amount of whites are out there and guilty of those crimes but are not being arrested?

Isn’t that an incredibly reasonable deduction to make when it is thought through with pure reason?

Isn’t that conclusion also demonstrative of a fostered monopoly for white drug dealers and also being complicit in their crime (in an admittedly far-fetched line of thinking)?

Well, maybe that’s not really so far fetched…

Remember, people sell and use at the same rate, yet only a select demographic is penalized.

What does that tell us about the justice system?