Former Klan Leader Lauds Governor’s Racially-Charged Remarks

A few days ago, the governor of Maine, Paul LePage, made headlines for comments he made about his state’s growing heroin epidemic, and his comments have both lost and won him some friends. LePage clearly has an imaginative mind, which was made clear when he shared what sounded like drug-dealing fanfiction, saying traffickeres “named D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty,” have been coming to Maine to “impregnate a young, white girl.”

The backlash has been severe and LePage has made plenty of new enemies, including Democratic leaders and Maine’s hometown hero himself, Stephen King, but his list of allies is growing, too. Just today, we told you that he can count Republican presidential candidate and fellow problematic governor Chris Christie among his defenders, and now he has some new friends in his corner: the KKK (or, at least, their Louisiana chapter founder).

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke took to his radio program last Friday to praise the governor and his lack of “talking in a politically correct manner.” He founded the Louisiana chapter of the KKK and served in the state’s House of Representatives.

More surprising than the fact that someone gave this guy a radio show is the fact that, in 2016, he is still stereotyping black men by calling them “Puff Diddy”:

You are probably picking yourself off the floor to think that an elected governor in the United States of America would actually talk about this horrible destruction and defilement of young white women. These are not Anglo-Saxon guys from rural Maine doing this. These are, again, like the Puff Diddies — or whatever they want to call themselves — from New York.

As a young white woman, I have to say, I’m not particularly stressed about the “Puff Diddies” of the world, but something tells me these men’s interests have less to do with protecting my demographic and more to do with defaming others.

h/t Raw Story

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