Why Bother With Racial Code Words?

By David Kurtz

January 8, 2016 8:57 a.m.

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Gov. Paul LePage (R) will no longer stand for the scourge of (black/brown?) drug dealers from New York impregnating young white girls in Maine. Watch.

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