DId you know only about 1 percent of Mainers are of the African American variety of American? Did you know that adds up (every little bit counts!) to about 15,000 or so black Mainers? Well Maine GOP chair Charlie Webster apparently did not know that,
Maine is <i>sui generis</i> - it&#039;s a point of state pride that people think for themselves, and aren&#039;t particularly keen on either political party. (The bare fact that a candidate is an independent is a big plus, right out of the gate.) It&#039;s an odd mix of tea-party-ish thinking and the Yankee small town ethos. Not a lot of brain-dead teabaggers, but not many die-hard liberals either. There&#039;s a belief in good government, and a mistrust of slippery millionaires, which worked to Obama&#039;s advantage. Also, I&#039;m not surprised that the GOP&#039;s make-the-rich-richer fiscal plans did not go over well among an electorate that&#039;s inclined to think.
As for Charlie Webster&#039;s remarks, the non-while population is miniscule, so it&#039;s actually true that many or most people don&#039;t have black acquaintances; it&#039;s also true that most have no legacy of inherited prejudice. He&#039;s clueless, but not necessarily in a bad way. He probably did hear from people who were wondering where all those black folks (dozens of &#039;em!) were coming from. He just needs to stop drinking Karl&#039;s Kool-Aid.
You forgot the part where since black people don&#039;t exist because he doesn&#039;t anyone who knows anyone who&#039;s black, he is not racist.
Nice Absurd-O-Meter you got there. It&#039;d be a <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/11\/15\/georgia-lawmakers-meet-over-obamas-mind-control-un-dictatorship-plot\/" target="_blank">shame if anything happened</a> to it.
Actually, in the update, it turns out he does have a black friend, who he plays basketball with every week, so there.
Of course, that raises the question, where does this baller live? In the town with no black people?
Also, to, in the update, he&#039;s up to &quot;hundreds&quot; from &quot;dozens&quot;. This guy is a regular barrel of fail.
Maine is <i>sui generis</i> - it&#039;s a point of state pride that people think for themselves, and aren&#039;t particularly keen on either political party. (The bare fact that a candidate is an independent is a big plus, right out of the gate.) It&#039;s an odd mix of tea-party-ish thinking and the Yankee small town ethos. Not a lot of brain-dead teabaggers, but not many die-hard liberals either. There&#039;s a belief in good government, and a mistrust of slippery millionaires, which worked to Obama&#039;s advantage. Also, I&#039;m not surprised that the GOP&#039;s make-the-rich-richer fiscal plans did not go over well among an electorate that&#039;s inclined to think.
As for Charlie Webster&#039;s remarks, the non-while population is miniscule, so it&#039;s actually true that many or most people don&#039;t have black acquaintances; it&#039;s also true that most have no legacy of inherited prejudice. He&#039;s clueless, but not necessarily in a bad way. He probably did hear from people who were wondering where all those black folks (dozens of &#039;em!) were coming from. He just needs to stop drinking Karl&#039;s Kool-Aid.
You can&#039;t get heah from theah
He doesnt see color, he sees food groups. Who knew Maine had a watermelon bloc? What about the refried bean vote? Or the fried rice gang?
You forgot the part where since black people don&#039;t exist because he doesn&#039;t anyone who knows anyone who&#039;s black, he is not racist.
<i>&quot;...but nobody in town knows anyone who&rsquo;s black.&quot; </i>
The people in town are very <i>urban</i> and just don&#039;t understand people who live in <i>Real Maine&trade;</i>.
...you guys didn&#039;t know that they were importing black people into Maine for the election?! They even flew me into town!
Well Charlie, clearly you aren&#039;t Color Blind. But sleazy doesn&#039;t cover the half of it, you insulated racist xenophobic little fuck.
Whoa slow down there hoss! Too many numbers for your average GO-Pee&#039;er.
Nice Absurd-O-Meter you got there. It&#039;d be a <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/11\/15\/georgia-lawmakers-meet-over-obamas-mind-control-un-dictatorship-plot\/" target="_blank">shame if anything happened</a> to it.