US governor calls Blacks and Hispanics the ‘enemy’
‘A US daily that released a video of the Republican governor of Maine referring to Blacks and Hispanics as “the enemy,” has apologized on behalf of the state for twice electing an “unfit” governor.
“Please forgive us – we made a terrible mistake. We managed to elect and re-elect a governor who is unfit for high office,” wrote the editorial board of local Portland Press Herald in its online issue as quoted in a report by the UK-based Guardian on Saturday.
Maine Governor Paul LePage had stated during a town hall event in North Berwick earlier in the week that the majority of drug dealers detained in his state were African American or of Hispanic origin, raising concerns over potential racial profiling by local law enforcement authorities.’
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