“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.”
What’s wrong with observing that most American blacks have been pushed into a condition that is worse than slavery?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it: it shines the bright light of truth and reason on just how damaging progressive policies really are.
To draw attention away from this obvious truth, progressives jump up and down screaming “Racist!” when in fact there is nothing even remotely racist in Bundy’s words.
This is a typical progressive ploy – and it’s getting old.
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
April 24, 2014 at 18:54
Love Ezra at the end…. ” I am with Cliven Bundy”.
Fast forward to today:
“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.”
Still love him Ezra?
What! There is gambling in here!
April 27, 2014 at 22:22
Voice of Reason (sic):
What’s wrong with observing that most American blacks have been pushed into a condition that is worse than slavery?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it: it shines the bright light of truth and reason on just how damaging progressive policies really are.
To draw attention away from this obvious truth, progressives jump up and down screaming “Racist!” when in fact there is nothing even remotely racist in Bundy’s words.
This is a typical progressive ploy – and it’s getting old.
April 28, 2014 at 14:37
I agree, CodeSlinger.
What is more, many US intellectuals, including Thomas Sowell, have been voicing this opinion very loudly and for very long time.