recent behavior fits a ritual that has become so familiar to Americans we can predict every beat: Public figure says something racist, people get outraged, public figure offers a semi-apology while denying, despite all evidence to the contrary, to have meant anything racist by the racist thing they said. (He’s not the only politician who has gone through this cycle just this week.)But while we knew the semi-apology/excuse was coming, it was exciting to wonder how he was going to wriggle out of saying that New York sends its heroin dealers to Maine where they “impregnate a young white girl before they leave.”
Gov. LePage had an unbelievable but boring excuse for his racist comments. Here are four better options
">Four superior excuses Gov. LePage could have given for his racist rant about white girls and drug dealers
Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s recent behavior fits a ritual that has become so familiar to Americans we can predict every beat: Public figure says something racist, people get outraged, public figure offers a semi-apology while denying, despite all evidence to the contrary, to have meant anything racist by the racist thing they said. (He’s not the only politician who has gone through this cycle just this week.)
But while we knew the semi-apology/excuse was coming, it was exciting to wonder how he was going to wriggle out of saying that New York sends its heroin dealers to Maine where they “impregnate a young white girl before they leave.”