“Where Bundy went wrong was saying that the Blacks would have been better off as slaves.”
He didn’t state that they were better off as slaves,he questioned whether they would be. Big difference IMHO.
The following is the alleged quote.
” And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
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What I meant was using the words, “better off as slaves” . The press just needed the sound bite to run with it.