UNAPOLOGETIC: TN State Representative Sheila Butt's Racist Comments on Facebook

UNAPOLOGETIC

                                                    This is TN State Rep Sheila Butt

                                                     Look beyond the smile, people!

State Rep. Sheila Butt wrote a Facebook post in January that critics thought painted her as a racist, if taken at face value.

Any elected leader who believes this country needs an “NAAWP” deservedly would face scorn and ridicule. She never would be taken seriously again for the rest of her political career and likely have to go home in shame.

There’s just one problem. No one seems to hear what Butt is telling them.

The Republican from Columbia said she did not mean “National Association for the Advancement of White People,” as her critics charge. They thought she was playing off “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” or “NAACP.”

In January, Butt responded to a social media comment on Islamophobia by writing, “It is time for a Council on Christian Relations and an NAAWP in the Country.”

The Republican from Columbia, 63, said she meant “National Association for the Advancement of Western Principles,” and she really doesn’t care whether critics believe her or not.

“I know what I was writing,” Butt said as I spent a morning and afternoon with her at the State Capitol last week.”I am not going to apologize for something that I did not mean. It’s not going to happen.”

Butt describes herself as a Christian, conservative woman, in that order. The second-term legislator said she’s the most non-judgmental person you would ever meet. Furthermore, she said she does not rate people by race, creed or color. And she’s offended by anyone who thinks otherwise.

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Here's more racism from Ms. Butt:

My take:  As you and I can see, Right wing racism is in your face in 2015. This occur in less than one month after the racially and religious motivated killing of a Muslim family in Chapel Hill, N.C.  Islamophobia is at an all-time high.  Keep it up, conservatives!

Bonus reading:  The Chapel Hill Shooting- Abagond
                            The Rant(March 5, 2015)