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Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid on Thursday strongly
condemned Cliven Bundy, a constituent and rancher in Nevada, for his
widely-reported offensive comments about African-Americans.
“Today, Bundy revealed himself to be a hateful racist,” Reid said in a statement provided by his office.
The New York Times reported
on a recent rant by Bundy, who mused about what he referred to as “the
Negro.” He has been in the news recently over his clash with the Bureau
of Land Management over grazing fees.
Discussing a public-housing project in Nevada, Bundy said of black
people: “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.”
A number of politicians, including Reid, criticized Bundy for his comments.
“To advance his extreme, hateful views, Bundy has endangered the lives of innocent women and children,” the Nevada senator said.
Reid has found himself in a media firestorm over racial comments
before. In 2010, the book “Game Change” reported that Reid had praised
President Obama, before he was elected, as someone who is “light
skinned” and has “no Negro dialect.”
Following an uproar over those comments, Reid apologized.
The Daily Caller
Calling someone a negro, while outdated and somewhat insulting is not even in the realm of believing that slaves had a good "family structure". I guess selling their children and husbands away from them is just part of providing a good family structure.
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