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.
Mr. Bundy’s comparison appeared to be triggered when he drove by the welfare family, but he didn’t just talk about them.
Mr. Bundy: “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro.”
He prefaced the comment with a statement about “the Negro,” meaning the entire race. I actually doubt he was talking about all blacks, but he used words to that effect. Who knows? Maybe he really is a racist and thinks all blacks are inferior, but I don’t think his comments imply that.
I think his point was clear. Welfare dependency creates its own set of problems different from slavery. That doesn’t mean slavery is better. It means both slavery and welfare dependency are bad. Trying to decide which is better is like trying to decide whether it’s better to be murdered by a knife or a gun.