At least he said they will be back in the fields, VP Biden said we was all going to put them back in chains. I'd rather be in the field than chained up.

Guy's that are Mr Bundy's age are a lot more rough around the edges when they speak, they may come across as bigoted, but if we are too quick to judge we may miss the point they are trying to make. It would seem as he was taken a bit out of context. Yes he said negro and colored. Do we really think guys his age don't use those words? In their mind, it's not disparaging terms. The point he made of wondering if blacks were better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things vs are they better off under government subsidy was poorly said, I agree and it sounds racist on the surface, but is it racist? Was it merely meant as condemnation of the government and how they made life for the black man much worse instead of better in his opinion?

 

When you read more of what he said, the part the media left out, does he still come across as a bigot to you?

... and so what I've testified to you -- I was in the Watts riot, I seen the beginning fire and I seen that last fire. What I seen is civil disturbance. People are not happy, people are thinking they don't have their freedoms, they didn't have these things, and they didn't have them.

 

We've progressed quite a bit from that day until now, and we sure don't want to go back. We sure don't want the colored people to go back to that point. We sure don't want these Mexican people to go back to that point. And we can make a difference right now by taking care of some of these bureaucracies, and do it in a peaceful way.

 

 

Now, let me talk about the Spanish people. You know, I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders. But they’re here and they’re people -- and I’ve worked side by side a lot of them.

 

Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structures than most of us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they’re together, they picnic together, they’re spending their time together, and I’ll tell you in my way of thinking they’re awful nice people. And we need to have those people join us and be with us not, not come to our party.

Guy's that are Mr Bundy's age are a lot more rough around the edges when they speak, they may come across as bigoted, but if we are too quick to judge we may miss the point they are trying to make. It would seem as he was taken a bit out of context. Yes he said negro and colored. Do we really think guys his age don't use those words? In their mind, it's not disparaging terms. The point he made of wondering if blacks were better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things vs are they better off under government subsidy was poorly said, I agree and it sounds racist on the surface, but is it racist? Was it merely meant as condemnation of the government and how they made life for the black man much worse instead of better in his opinion?

 

When you read more of what he said, the part the media left out, does he still come across as a bigot to you?

Looks like Jason Blair got rehired.