State Senator's Wife Makes Racist Remarks - 'White Race is in Decline, we must preserve it'

From [HERE] and [MORE] Jodie Brunstetter, the wife of N.C. Sen. Pete Brunstetter, R-Forsyth, on Wednesday denied an accusation that she said passage of a marriage amendment is important to protect the white race.

Brunstetter apparently made the comments to another white woman while handing out literature in support of the provision to prohibit same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in the state constitution.

But Kate Maloy, a freelance writer and editor in Winston-Salem, on Thursday stood by her account of Jodie Brunstetter's comments that the white race is in decline, that whites founded the country and that the country should be preserved as the founders intended. (Is this what some white folks talk about amongst themselves -White supremacy? Of course it is! - check out Pat Buchanan's latest manifesto about preservation of the white Western Christian Republic for more [HERE]. Some white folks indeed fear a Black planet - caucasians represent a small number of the world's population and their genes cannot be reproduced when they intermingle with people of color- bw).

The two women had a wide-ranging conversation Tuesday in front of the Forsyth County Government Center, where Brunstetter was lobbying early voters to support the amendment and Maloy was lobbying against it.

The marriage amendment would write a ban on same-sex marriage into the state constitution, in addition to the law already prohibiting gay marriage.

Chad Nance, a videographer, filmed both of the women after an unidentified man said — and repeated on camera — that he heard Jodie Brunstetter say the amendment was proposed because whites are in decline and need to reproduce.

Maloy could not be reached Wednesday to comment on the video, which went viral online.

In an interview Thursday, Maloy recounted her conversation with Jodie Brunstetter and how it ultimately left Maloy "with no doubt that this is a racist amendment."

When the women initially began talking about the amendment, Brunstetter repeatedly stressed that the amendment is important to preserving America as established by its founders, said Maloy, who assumed Brunstetter meant the founders disapproved of homosexuality.

Maloy said she pointed out to Brunstetter that the country's founders had countenanced slavery, as well, but Maloy said Brunstetter wouldn't respond to that.

Maloy said they talked about other things, and as Maloy was pulling away to continue working the polls, Brunstetter suddenly made the comment that "the Caucasian race is diminishing."

Maloy asked why she was concerned about a white decline. Brunstetter responded that the country had been founded by whites and said again that preserving America as established by its founders is important.

"To me, that implicitly meant that there was a connection in her mind between the amendment and these racial issues," Maloy said.

Jodie Brunstetter has denied ever linking passage of the marriage amendment to race during her conversation with Maloy. The Brunstetters said they are not racist and do not believe whites should dominate the country. They declined further comment Thursday.

Jodie Brunstetter said in the video that she "probably" used the word "Caucasian" during a conversation with Maloy, but declined both in the video and in a later interview to talk about the context in which she used the word.

Maloy confirmed that the man whose comments initiated the video entered the women's conversation and called Jodie Brunstetter a bigot, as Brunstetter has claimed. But Maloy said she never heard Jodie Brunstetter tell anyone, as the man on the video claims, that Pete Brunstetter wrote the amendment because of white decline.

Pete Brunstetter says it isn't even true that he wrote the bill authorizing the amendment, although he supports it. Instead, state Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, wrote the bill, which in the state Senate replaced the text of another bill previously filed by Brunstetter.

Meanwhile, the state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a statement saying that the "alleged comments" of Jodie Brunstetter fit "as a piece of the cynical puzzle of race-based political agendas and money found … in the extreme right-wing forces behind this amendment."

The group said a secret document from the National Organization for Marriage made public in a federal lawsuit shows that the group had a "strategic goal … to drive a wedge between gays and blacks, two key Democratic constituencies."

The document calls for developing "a media campaign around their (African-Americans') objections to gay marriage as a civil right."

Pete Brunstetter said that to his knowledge, race has had nothing to do with support of the amendment in the General Assembly.

"I've never been involved in a discussion of racial demographics related to the bill, or heard a conversation where race was an issue in a discussion of the marriage amendment, period," Pete Brunstetter said. "Some of the strongest support is in the African-American community."