By John Frary Read Article Maine has witnessed an increasingly energetic hunt for racism and racists over the last 10 years. Right now, the legislature seems poised to launch a hunt for racist traces in our laws, policies, and political customs. This hunt begins to remind me of the fox hunts I’ve seen in various BBC costume dramas, with mobs of baying hounds, their tails wagging furiously, in pursuit of a doomed fox. The editorial board of the Portland Press Herald has joined Maine’s hunt, their tails oscillating as energetically. It believes that the legislature’s investigations of its own work will shed light on the “systemic racism” which pervades Maine, the United States, American culture, and, the white race.