Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy said in a recent interview with The Guardian that there is a “sense of slavery” in the welfare system, echoing comments he made last year about blacks being “better off as slaves” than on government assistance.
“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton,” Bundy said of “the Negro” in April 2014. “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?”
Those comments led the Fox News talking heads and Republican congressional heavyweights who’d supported Bundy in his campaign against the federal Bureau of Land Management to abandon him en masse. But in an article published Monday, the rancher told The Guardian that those comments were a “mistake.”
Then he then posed virtually the same question about government assistance as modern-day slavery.
“Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?” Bundy said, as quoted by The Guardian. “They don’t have freedom.”
Bundy also told the publication that he often sees well dress blacks when he flies, which he said was a sign of progress for the black community.
“They really are progressing and prospering,” the rancher said. “I understand they’ve raised themselves up to a point where they are equal with the rest of us. And I’m so happy for them. But what about those that are in the ghetto and can’t get out?”
why is this welfare queen in a cowboy hat still walking free? when is the Justice Dept going to arrest him?
Maybe if “they” could use public land resources with out any rent to run cattle that reproduce without human effort and then sell them for a huge profit, they might prosper more and escape the ghetto?
How will Bundy escape the ghetto of his mind?
This man takes- illegally- more money from the Federal Government than a thousand Welfare recipients and then whines about it- pretty typical GOP’er.
"I understand they’ve raised themselves up to a point where they are equal with the rest of us. "
So they never were equal because they are human beings? Only if they adopt the white conservative Christian way of life will we know that they have made it. And have a deluxe apartment on the East Side.
Yea free them from the slavery and oppression of welfare so they can experience the freedom of unfettered workplace prejudice…women too!