Idaho is 97% white
There are several other minority groups including non-model ones (Native American and Latinos, Asians being the "model" one) so it's offensive that he equated "minority" with Black.
It is not the whitest state by the way. Maine is 98% white

This is why the NAACP's boycotts and admonishments have no teeth when real racism rears its head. Nothing in Wilbanks' statement was incorrect, nor was it racist. It was just stupid. He was trying to be flippant, and he was left sounding an ass. If the NAACP insisted on commenting on this non event, they should've said the statement was stupid and moved on.

AJ, this is real racism, however small it may be.

i don't know about this… i'm sure i've heard this statement in the form of a joke plenty of times from several comics and even then it's not met with so much as laughter but grave head-nodding…

Is this all the NAACP has left these days, no wonder they are seen as a joke by many!

What is the NAACP's raison d'etre again? Someone remind me. Oh yes! The advancement of colored people. Certainly we'll all get farther if you expend all your resources pointing out each and every potentially and minutely offensive statement made by old white guys in the media. Thanks! Way to eradicate the effects of institutional racism from black communities! Keep up the good work guys.

Based on the text my translation is: If Idaho had some Black people, they'd encounter the same discipline problems that his GA district faces.
It's a slap to the Blacks within his district and also a slap to Idaho in not recognizing any efforts Idaho may have made to reduce discipline problems.

Idaho doesn't have that many blacks or minorities. I don't see how it's racist.

"Idaho doesn't have that many blacks or minorities. I don't see how it's racist."

He's saying if they did have minorities, they would have discipline problems.
Blacks=behavioral problems

I live in Gwinnett and attended high school in the district.

The district is huge, over 150,000 kids. I don't know, it doesn't surprise me in this area. But hispanics in the district come in a close second. So the real question is, why are minorities disproportionately targeted, not just blacks.

@RainaWeather- That's not necessarily what he was saying. Wilbanks responded when the administrator made a point of saying that disproportionate disciplining of minority students was a problem everywhere but Idaho. And Wilbanks pointed out that this is because Idaho is almost entirely white. All Wilbanks did was throw out a piece of information given by the administrator because it was useless. And he was discussing the *disproportionate* discipline of minority students, meaning that the entire discussion in question was dedicated to the problem of non-whites being singled out.