[tumblindice]

Forget it, Jake. It’s the New Yawk Slimes.

[lefty-lie-spy]

If a leftist professor were to say this, it would be considered an astute and culturally sensitive political statement on the status of the black family after emancipation, etc...

There is nothing racist about what he said until the newspaper tries to tell us there is.

[TexasCajun]

Never said Black "Better Off"!!

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. 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.”

[Pietro]

Not having a degree in PCThink apparently invalidates this guy as a person. What does his opinion of blacks have to do w/ anything?

This people, is how they marginalize anybody not schooled in presswork. He's now a characature and easily dismissed.

There was a time when the 'common man' was considered the backbone of our country. Now he's just a rube to be ridiculed.

And anybody that thinks they can stand against the PCPolice needs to look at how Palin is treated; and she's a hell of a lot smarter than 95% of us.

[meatloaf]

Unfortunately Mr. Bundy is wrong. Blacks are still slaves kept on the government plantation by Democrats. Based on conditions in one of the biggest plantations, Chicago, that should be obvious.

[Eva]

It is coincidental that I was just discussing something similar to Bundy’s statement with my husband. I asked him if he thought that that the Progressive treatment of Blacks had similarities to the treatment of Native Americans and the reservation system. I was thinking about the effects of government dependency that destroyed the culture and the need to work to support themselves and their families. I was thinking how government dependency led to alcohol and drug dependency, all because the need to work was taken away.

My husband pointed out that the Blacks were much more amenable to government dependency than the Indians and that the Blacks weren’t put on reservations, but many of the Blacks were self segregating. The urban ghettos have a lot in common with reservations, except that they have no self government.

Where Bundy went wrong was saying that the Blacks would have been better off as slaves. I don’t think that is exactly what he meant. I think that he meant that moving from slavery to government dependency was a Pyrrhic victory. Slavery was ended just about the time that Whites were forming Trade Unions which were closed to Black membership, leaving Uneducated Blacks to work in only the most menial jobs, formerly performed by slaves in many cases.

I have not seen it written anywhere, but I would not be surprised if the push to empower the public sector unions over the trade unions was not partially based on some level of social justice for the former racist hiring practiced advocated by trade unions.

[dfwgator]

PLAY THE TAPE, OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!

[srmorton]

I have actually heard the great Walter Williams say something similar. Dr. Williams says the actual percentage of intact families (mother, father, and children) living together then was greater than it is today, thanks to the failed “Great Society” programs of the Democrats. He says that in most cases the slave owner tried to keep the family together so as to keep the workers more satisfied.

[LyinLibs]

Did NYTimes rehire Jayson Blair?

He’s the guy that made up stories, and invented, then quoted sources by name who don’t exist.

[Homer1]

headline is a lie, but don’t lat that stop them...

[Sacajaweau]

http://blogwest.org/2014/04/21/understanding-cliven-bundy/

[Lion Den Dan]

I don’t know if said what is attributed but what is reported hardly strikes me as racist.

[dragnet2]

Of course Bundy is a racist.

Everyone who speaks of government oppression has been labeled a radical right winger and or a racist.

Those in government were just waiting for something, anything to discredit the old guy...

This is what government does and it's all aided and abetted by their friends in media.

They attempt to discredit and destroy anyone or anything which opposes them.

Of course those capable of critical thought have long understood they have been using race as a weapon for decades now.

When all else fails, pull the race card.

[JayAr36]

Cliven Bundy Makes Ridiculously Racist Comments, Says Blacks ‘Better Off’ As Slaves.

What is the problem here? They are still enslaved only now it is the Democrat Party as the owners. They quit voting for the Dims and they will be thrown under the bus.

[ponygirl]

I see. This is the part where they must “Cut off the support network and isolate, polarize, demonize.” Because Bundy says something with a politically incorrect word, it's now okay that his family is massacred and his land stolen so Harry Reid can sell it to the Chinese for solar panels.

None of this has any bearing on what we all witnessed last week where an out of control, militarized federal government brought their storm troopers to “protect” a freaking turtle and steal an old man’s cows.

But keep shaking that shiny object, New York Times. It just proves you have lost the argument.

[NorthMountain]

Big Media is lying.

Again.

As usual.

It’s all they know how to do.

[Uncle Lonny]

He had a minor point about the black family under slavery:

“I was stunned to learn that a black child was more likely to grow up living with both parents during slavery days than he or she is today”

Leftist historian,Eugene D. Genovese

Of course, Slavery could also break up that family with impunity if the slave owner wanted to but the the Liberal Welfare State has been disastrous to the black family so his statement is not racist in that sense unless the truth is racist.

[gspurlock]

Well, Mr. Bundy was clearly talking about unemployed welfare recipients. Seems like, despite his low brow articulation, he is in pretty good company:

Walter E. Williams puts it: “The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do. And that is to destroy the black family.”

Hoover Institution Fellow Thomas Sowell concurs: “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.”

[Old Yeller]

Bundy should know that the press will twist the words of anyone who is not incahoots with them (i.e. patriots).

[PeterPrinciple]

He uses the word negro which is what is common for his generation. That is the emotional impact desired by the authors.