Racism is alive and well and living in Maine. Not that it isn’t everywhere else, but Maine isn’t the image that crops up when one thinks of blatant racism.

“In October, the N.A.A.C.P. chapter for northern Maine got shocking news. A man from a nearby town had threatened to shoot “any and all black persons” attending the group’s meetings at an old stone church here, and state prosecutors were worried enough to seek a restraining order.”
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