Just for the record, I disagree with Mr. Bundy that blacks were better off as slaves. For one thing, most blacks are NOT like the ones he described. Yes. There are some blacks today who have nearly traded one plantation for another, but many other blacks are independent, successful, and moral. One could, in fact, point to many able bodied white families who live in similar dependency on the government.
I also note that Mr. Bundy did NOT say he wanted to enslave blacks or force them to pick cotton. He made an observation, a comparison. That doesn’t mean he supports either slavery or welfare dependency. I’ll go so far to say his implication is that neither (slavery or government dependency) are good, and in some ways he’s right that black culture today is more destructive for black families (in general).
I think his comments were also foolish in that we all know the media loves to find something like that to use against anyone who opposes our burgeoning government. Mr. Bundy essentially handed his enemies the ammunition they will use to slaughter him. What possible good could ever come from saying anything like that to a reporter? None at all!
Just for the record, to place the comments in context, this is how the alleged remarks came about:
"I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, "and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do.