Cliven Bundy Says If People Thought His Comments Were Racist, It’s MLK’s Fault

[ProSense]

Cliven Bundy Says If People Thought His Comments Were Racist, It’s MLK’s Fault

By Annie-Rose Strasser

Cliven Bundy, the embattled rancher who revealed himself this week to be not just a critic of the government, but also a blatant racist, dug himself further into a hole Friday morning by saying that Martin Luther King “hasn’t done his job” if Bundy “can’t say negro or slave or black boy without those people being offended.”

On Saturday, Bundy recalled a time when he drove past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas and observed that “the negro” were dependent on government: “they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he said. “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.”

Bundy also wondered if black people would be better off picking cotton as slaves than being free. In separate clarifying comments on Thursday, he added that they might be“happier than they was when they was in the South in front of their homes with their chickens and their gardens and their children around them and their men having something to do.”

In a CNN appearance Friday morning, Bundy tried once again to clarify his position and argue for himself. And while his comments came close to a real apology, they then veered off course:

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http://thinkprogress.org/media/2014/04/25/3430830/cliven-bundy-mlk/

When called out for his racist comments, despicable deadbeat, sans his guns, acts like a cornered rat.

Cliven Bundy: Fox News Hasn't 'Abandoned' Me

Cliven Bundy has no hard feelings toward Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who gave voice to the Nevada rancher in scores of television appearances before declaring his racist tirade "despicable" and "repugnant."

“I don’t think I’ve been abandoned. I think maybe they misunderstood me a little bit,” Bundy told CNN on Thursday night. “But I think Fox and I, I think, Hannity and I are just right on. I have no doubt that he would support me if he understood really what’s in my heart. And I think he does understand me.”

Fox News has gone silent on Bundy's recent comments, in which he said that "the Negro" would be better off under slavery. But that hasn't stopped the anti-government rancher from appearing on other networks, like CNN, to double, triple, and quadruple down on his remarks.

"I thought about Rosa Park taking her seat at the front of the bus … What Reverend King wanted was that she could sit anywhere in the bus and nobody would say anything about it," Bundy said Friday morning. "You and I can sit anywhere in the bus. That's what he wanted. That's what I want."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cliven-bundy-sean-hannity-fox

GOP rats jumping ship from the good ship SS Cliven Bundy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024864423

[JoePhilly]

1. Get this man a reality show ... STAT!!!!

[liberal N proud]

2. He could be on right after Duck Dynasty

Followed by Paula Deen

[JoePhilly]

4. Put it all on WSC .... the White Supremacy Channel.

[Paladin]

3. Cliven Bundy: the gift that just keeps on giving. (nt)

[Thinkingabout]

5. The RW does not believe their ears, their spokesman is saying what many of the RW

Believe and when said publicly it really doesn't sound nice, the KKK voice of the GOP.

[hfojvt]

6. he's right about the word 'negro'

just FYI

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4866142

But he is wrong about Rosa Parks. Rosa was NOT trying to "sit in the front of the bus". She was just trying to SIT in the back.

The bus rule was that black people had to sit in the back, but if the bus filled up, then white people could sit in the black section and if the black section was full, then the black people were supposed to yield their seat to the white people and stand for the rest of their trip.

That's what Rosa refused to do - she refused to STAND.

And the bus boycott made 3 demands

"1) a guarantee of courteous service
2) passengers to be seated on a first-come first-served basis, the Negroes seating from the back ; and
3) employment of Negro bus drivers on predominantly Negro routes"

Martin Luther King "Stride toward Freedom" 1958 p. 109 Emphasis mine.

There's that word again. Sitting anywhere on the bus was the ultimate goal, but the first demands were just for small steps.

[ProSense]

7. He's a racist, and the

"he's right about the word 'negro'

But he is wrong about Rosa Parks. Rosa was NOT trying to "sit in the front of the bus". She was just trying to SIT in the back."

....objections to his comments weren't about the use of the word. His attempt to drag MLK into this as a defense is beyond despicable.