In a statement released Monday, Cline wrote:

"There is apathy and I wonder if that is because the districts that have gone down are predominantly black schools. The people in the audience didn't seem to believe we could go under. I wondered if the staff thought this wouldn't happen because Garden City is predominantly white. Nobody seems to care about predominantly black schools. The people in the audience didn't seem to believe we could go under. is that because we are predominantly white? That is why I said what I said."


Not PC at all, but I'm not reading a lot of untruth in the statement either.

The original quote, I don't know because I wasn't there and didn't hear the context. Even if clumsy, she may have been trying to speak honestly about race politics, which people get crucified for by the same people who complain that no one talks honestly about race.