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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYeesh People, Back off Bundy would ya? He's just looking out for the best interest of them Negros!
Bundy Tries To Clarify His Slavery Remarks: 'I'm Not Racist'
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Bundy also went on The Peter Schiff Show to explain his remarks, as Mediaite reported. Noting that the word on the Internet was that Cliven Bundy is a racist, the host asked if Bundy wanted to clarify his remarks. Here's what Bundy said:
I'm wondering if they're better off under a government subsidy and their young women are having the abortions and their young men are in jail and their older women and children are sitting out on the cement porch without nothing to do.
I'm wondering: Are they happier now under this government subsidy system than they were when they were when they were slaves and they was able to their family structure together and the chickens and the garden and the people have something to do?
So in my mind, are they better off being slaves in that sense or better off being slaves to the United States government in the sense of the subsidy? I'm wondering. The statement was right. I am wondering.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bundy-explains-slavery-remarks
Clearly NOT racist! So there!
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Yeesh People, Back off Bundy would ya? He's just looking out for the best interest of them Negros! (Original Post)
Skraxx
Apr 2014
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)1. How can some one this incredibly stupid run a ranch?
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)3. I live across the road from a ranch. It doesn't take a genius
to let cows eat grass and provide them water and round them up every once in a while. I've met the guy who owns it. Not the sharpest, and a flaming asshole to boot.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)5. Sounds like that last part is a job requirement!
phantom power
(25,966 posts)6. It helps when you're allowed to steal public lands for grazing.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)7. Apparently.
I'm wondering when the Kock brothers will pay his fees to he "goes away".
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)2. So now the racist doubles down on his racist statement...
and calls it "not racist".
ck4829
(35,077 posts)4. "together and the chickens and the garden", not helping your case