Via the Salt Lake Tri­bune, we learn that Utah’s “divine design” advo­cate has been watch­ing too much HGTV, and not enough His­to­ry Channel:

“I don’t think there’s a racial [sic] bone in my body,” But­tars said in an inter­view on radio sta­tion KCPW Tues­day. “I don’t see black and white. I see peo­ple. I always have.” …

[But­tars] and host Tom Grover dis­cussed the mer­its of But­tars’ pro­posed leg­is­la­tion that could allow law­mak­ers to call in some judges at the end of their first terms for a sec­ond con­fir­ma­tion hear­ing. Grover not­ed that Amer­i­ca’s courts his­tor­i­cal­ly have been used by minor­i­ty groups “to ensure [their] rights are protected.”

But­tars … demand­ed an exam­ple. “I don’t under­stand that at all. I don’t know of an exam­ple where the minor­i­ty is being jeop­ar­dized by leg­isla­tive action,” he said.

Grover men­tioned the Kansas deseg­re­ga­tion case that result­ed in the bus­ing of black stu­dents to white schools and vice versa.

Then But­tars retort­ed: “I think Brown v. Board of Edu­ca­tion is wrong to begin with.” And he refused to elaborate,

Asked to explain more of his views in a dif­fer­ent set­ting, he explained that “There were down­sides.” Among what he con­sid­ers down­sides “the edu­ca­tion­al sys­tem express­ly designed to max­i­mize the num­ber of minor­i­ty kids in a school in the South” was dismantled.

Could some­one explain to But­tars that that was the point?