Keene Mayor: “Part of the Reason New Hampshire is so Safe is the State is 98% White. - Granite Grok

Keene Mayor: “Part of the Reason New Hampshire is so Safe is the State is 98% White.

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Kendall Lane’s tenure as Mayor of Keene ends this month. But before he leaves office, there’s a bit of scandal to share. Last year, in an interview for a student documentary, he had a curious thought about why Gun Crazy New Hampshire™ has such a low crime rate.

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The short documentary is about a young man from a total gun prohibition state exploring a place where there is very little restriction on gun ownership.

In the process, Dunn ended up talking to Lane about growing up with the New Hampshire gun culture and ultimately asks Lane why New Hampshire’s violent crime rate is so low. Lane says, “I have theories about why New Hampshire is particularly safe…” then pauses a while before stuttering and stumbling and then finally says, “part of the reason New Hampshire is so safe is because quite honestly it, the state is 98% white. The state is very homogeneous. There’s not a lot of diversity in New Hampshire.”

This is, of course, ridiculous.

Ian at Free Keene has more thought on why here if you are interested. Me, but I have questions.

How many more New Hampshire Democrats share this sentiment and how does that play into one of their other racist pastimes; a belief that they can and should change New Hampshire to attract minorities. And what does that mean?

“The reasons (for migration) in the past have been economic development, centered on large cities … nobody of color thinks of Manchester, Burlington, and Portland as a large city. There’s not a social infrastructure in any of those states.”

Urbanization and centralization of people, state resources, and (undoubtedly) political power built on their reliance. But?

In a genuinely free society, people go where they want for reasons that are their own.

And in a truly diverse world personal preference would drive demographics and that would be good enough. Sorry, say the “experts,” it’s not.

Contrast all of this with recent debates among the state’s politically powerful over high-density housing and tell me they are not connected? Then convince me.

Here’s some video of the soon to be former Mayor of Keene, New Hampshire saying something that would be earth-shatteringly racist if, for example, I said it.

 

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