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“Get him the hell out of here, will you please?” Trump shouted. “Get him out of here. Throw him out!”

And even after Trump learned of this racist response to Southhall’s demonstration, here was Trump’s response:

“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing,” Trump said on Fox News.

There’s a disturbing pattern emerging during this presidential campaign season.

Lance Dutson, a Republican from Maine and LePage critic, said the governor was playing on racial fears.

“This is one of the most blatantly racist statements he’s ever made,” said Dutson. “One of the things that’s offensive about it is that it’s reminiscent of this fear-mongering in American history that people would like to think is long gone.”

LePage is known for speaking his mind, and it sometimes gets him into trouble. He said on the campaign trail that he’d tell President Barack Obama to “go to hell,” and then soon after he was elected to his first term he told the Portland chapter of the NAACP to “kiss my butt.”

Democratic state Sen. Linda Valentino said after LePage’s news conference that she doesn’t think LePage is racist but that the comment was racially offensive.

“The fact that he wasn’t thinking about what he said is more disturbing than what he said,” Valentino said. “This shows how he really feels.”

I couldn’t agree more.

And that’s why LaPage should resign.

What do you think?

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Maine’s Governor Needs To Go  was originally published on blackamericaweb.com

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