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“New Day” anchor Chris Cuomo asks Bundy : “Are you a racist?”
Bundy responded, “No, I am not a racist,” but that he “did wonder” if blacks had been better off as slaves. He went on to discuss Rosa Parks, saying, “I want her to be able to sit anywhere in the bus and I want to be able to sit by her anywhere in that bus.”
Bundy has made several other media appearances in the past 24 hours. He went on Alex Jones’s radio show, saying, “I’m not racist” and calling for the New York Times to retract its story. “I would appreciate that. They’re making it a racist-type thing.”
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Nowhere did Cliven Bundy ever state that there should only be two choices for those Americans of African descent.
Being a slave/sharecropper, or being on the dole in some urban slum, are definitely NOT the only two choices in life. For anybody.
Many of the sons, daughters, cousins, brothers or sisters of those condemned by poverty to remain in the ghettos, relying on the “loving kindness” of total strangers and some bureaucratic agency, have managed to pull themselves up out of that morass, that fever swamp, and proven themselves to be good productive citizens of the Republic.
Sure, some of the attitudes do come with them, But in a larger sense, those who have succeeded in escaping from the grinding poverty of their youth, have shed a good portion of that catechism of despair. Some might say they are “lucky”, but luck is hard work meeting opportunity.
And the option of hard work is available to everybody.