Cliven Bundy: Are Black People 'Better Off As Slaves' Than 'Under Government Subsidy?

[Matty]

This guy is a fokken hoot.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/cliven-bundy-racist_n_5204821.html

“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.

“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.”

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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 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.



We need BadNina to weigh in here.

 

[Matty]

bump for nina

 

[reno cool]

actually there's a grain of truth there imo. No one should be a slave. Keeping a large portion of the population in poverty, desperation and prison is not a big step up from slavery.

 

[Matty]

Yes, but he's basically saying that all blacks (The Negro People) are good-for-nothing welfare recipients.

 

[bacon]

being a slave can be fun in small doses.

 

[kato]

got to love mass generalities

but reno has a very good point

it would force the black man to be a father?

 

[Matty]

would give the negro something to do

no word about mr. bundy's plans for the 40% of whites on welfare

 

[kato]

he fails to see the big picture

 

[Matty]

Not a big fan of Borowitz but this one is pretty good: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...-use-commonly-accepted-racial-code-words.html

“We Republicans have worked long and hard to develop insidious racial code words like ‘entitlement society’ and ‘personal responsibility,’ ” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). “There is no excuse for offensive racist comments like the ones Cliven Bundy made when there are so many subtler ways of making the exact same point.”

Fox News also blasted the rancher, saying in a statement, “Cliven Bundy’s outrageous racist remarks undermine decades of progress in our effort to come up with cleverer ways of saying the same thing.”

 

[IAG]

Not a big fan of Borowitz but this one is pretty good: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...-use-commonly-accepted-racial-code-words.html

“We Republicans have worked long and hard to develop insidious racial code words like ‘entitlement society’ and ‘personal responsibility,’ ” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). “There is no excuse for offensive racist comments like the ones Cliven Bundy made when there are so many subtler ways of making the exact same point.”

Fox News also blasted the rancher, saying in a statement, “Cliven Bundy’s outrageous racist remarks undermine decades of progress in our effort to come up with cleverer ways of saying the same thing.”

haha that is :lmao"

A lot of truth to his poorly delivered words. It is not reserved for the black community, but there is a lot to be said for a lot of people "needing something to do."

 

[Cougar Bait]

Yeah he should stop talking, Sarah Palin has this problem too. She should also stop talking

Although I do 100% support his stance vs. the BLM (commonly known as BM)

As the two topics are unrelated

 

[Matty]

Life is a lot about how you word things.

Funniest thing is how the Republicans first used him as a heroic figure for standing up to the money-grabbing federal govt, then when he expressed the rest of his philosophy they all went into warp-speed-backpedal mode.

 

[Cougar Bait]

Probably what he meant to say was, "Where have your government programs gotten you?"

Although a better question might be, who fuck gives a shit what he thinks about blacks and their "struggle" since I'm not sure how that possibly has anything to do with why we even know this guy's name.

 

[Cougar Bait]

Life is a lot about how you word things.

Funniest thing is how the Republicans first used him as a heroic figure for standing up to the money-grabbing federal govt, then when he expressed the rest of his philosophy they all went into warp-speed-backpedal mode.

Wait, why would they back pedal? The issues are entirely separate.

So he's a racist. And?

I'm not sure how that changes what happened at his ranch.

 

[IAG]

Yeah they did. They can't disassociate quickly enough.

 

[Matty]

Ok, they didn't backpedal so much as they had to create some distance between him and the GOP. He was one of the boys until he started ranting about Teh Negro.

 

[IAG]

Wait, why would they back pedal? The issues are entirely separate.

So he's a racist. And?

I'm not sure how that changes what happened at his ranch.

It doesn't matter. They don't want to be known as being affiliated in any way with someone who holds those beliefs.

 

[Matty]

IAG gets it