After Pith's Andrea Zelinski broke the story yesterday that state Rep. Sheila Butt had called for a "NAAWP" on Facebook, the high-ranking House Republican handed out a variety of explanations for what she meant, after the non-answer she gave while trying to get away from Zelinski.
Here's a recap of them all:
To Pith: “Oh, I know exactly what it is, but it’s not what you say it is.”
To WSMV: "I came from Rockford, Illinois, so racism was never part of my culture ... so racism is something that I, as a Christian, and as a native of Rockford, Illinois, do not identify with."
To the Associated Press: "Western Peoples"
To WKRN's Chris Bundgaard: " ... post was actually about making sure that every race, religion, gender and culture has a seat at the table"
Butt has some experience in explaining matters of race. In 2008, she wrote the book Everyday Princess: Daughter of the King, a kind of instructional guide for Christian girls to be pure in the eyes of God. In it is this passage on interracial dating:
Will dating someone of another race be helpful or beneficial? Understanding that you will eventually marry someone that you date, will you be just as happy for your children to grow up biracial? I have seen instances when a young lady started dating someone of another race, and there were those of her own race who were not interested in dating her after that. There will always be those who look at the race of the person a young lady dates rather then the character of the person.
So wait, you shouldn't date someone from another race because you might piss off ... racists you may want to date in the future?
Maybe that's how they do it in Rockford. After all, Illinois has the Klan just like Tennessee.
