Keyes is exactly right and states it well with his usual precision.
We on the right need to get better at simply standing by the truth and not being cowed by the PC game. We should be fully willing to denounce actual racists but also willing to hold the line when one of our own speaks the truth in a way that doesn’t conform to PC rules. I actually think that Bundy has created an opening to insert some reality into the public conversation on race if we will simply man up and be willing to speak the truth. That’s a hard thing to do but it has to be done if we’re ever going to get ourselves out of the race rut. The left has ruined the golden opportunity that this country has had when it comes to race issues. They need to be held accountable for that. Doing so starts by having a backbone and being willing to simply stand up for what is true even when it’s uncomfortable.
Getting our supposedly own people to stop hiding like cowards would indeed be a good start. Look at every Bundy thread.
And people wonder why no good man will stand up and run with that behind him.
Unless he is a double agent, Bundy is a simple man of the earth, a rancher, who sees things in terms of their results and not in terms of a hoard of words expended for a listening audience.
Because of that, I don’t see him as a racist (especially in light of the Watts and illegal Mexican statements). Hannity and other conservative talking heads feel obligated to do go along with the crowd, because they are afraid of a media feeding frenzy involvinging race. They’re probably right. Unless God intervenes, Bundy will not recover from the left’s racism label.
The result of big government in the lives of blacks in America is broken families, single motherhood, abortion, and gang wars. Those are the results that Bundy sees and tried to address in his halting, simple way. (Strangely that has been both O’Reilly’s and Hannity’s message about blacks since the Trayvon Martin media frenzy. Apparently they were Bundy’s ideological mates.)
The Fox media will be held accountable if the cyber-world can hang O’Reilly and Hannity with their own words. I believe, if memory serves correctly, that they have even wondered if big government is actually better for black families.
Force them to acknowledge that they have been in exactly the same philosophical place, and have said so on their broadcasts, and they will have some ‘splainin’ to do.