By Arthur Christopher Schaper ——Bio and Archives--April 26, 2014
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... 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.The New York Times reporter should have waited around to get the rest of the story, but didn't, since these revelations would have blasted away any hint of racism. "We have progressed. . .” One would think that Progressives would esteem these developments, even coming out of the mouth from this Nevada rancher.
Let me tell, talk to you about the Mexicans, and these are just things I know about the negroes. I want to tell you one more thing I know about the negro. When I go, went, go to Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and I would see these little government houses, and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids -- and there's 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.Bundy said "Negro". Outdated? Yes, but not racist. Democratic President Lyndon Johnson said "n-gger", patently offensive. A black marine supports Bundy, and here are other comments from African-Americans who do not find him racist. (Here’s another clip)
And because they were basically on government subsidy -- so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never, they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered are they were better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things? Or are they better off under government subsidy? You know they didn’t get more freedom, they got less freedom -- they got less family life, and their happiness -- you could see it in their faces -- they wasn't happy sitting on that concrete sidewalk. Down there they was probably growing their turnips -- so that’s all government, that’s not freedom.Bundy’s remarks about Hispanics are enlightened, not offensive:
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.Comparing slavery and welfare is inarticulate. Slavery is slavery, and welfare is welfare. But Government dependency has forced people into a second-class status of government control. Focus on getting people off of welfare, no matter what color a person may be. More importantly, Bundy did not advocate re-enslaving people. Not only is Bundy not racist, but he called out the hollow talking points from the Democratic Party, who discredit resistance to Big Government. The New York Times tried to smear a Nevada rancher with the race card. What the paper did instead is besmirch its already dirtied reputation as one more news organ trying to carry the Democratic-liberal-agenda to an audience tired of media’s left-leaning bias.
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Arthur Christopher Schaper is a teacher-turned-writer on topics both timeless and timely; political, cultural, and eternal. A life-long Southern California resident, Arthur currently lives in Torrance.
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