>“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.”
Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute there, Elder Clive.
I've been to the Silver State myself -- and I'm quite certain that I drove through North Vegas when I went to the College of Southern Nevada campus.
Seems that I recall some white folks sittin' on their front porches, drinking Magnum-40 and a gal or two "showin' a little leg."
Any reason them crackers wouldn't be better off runnin' hand-crank cotton gins, Clive?
And don't even get me started on the "gubburment subsidy" topic, Brother Bundy...
dalebroadhurst Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Like a welfare cowboy...
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth:
>I used to live in North Las Vegas and it is home >to some of the hardest-working people I have ever >met – men and women who embody the American dream >by working hard every day to build a better life >for themselves and their families. By contrast, >Cliven Bundy has spent decades profiting off government. >
mew Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Glad to have a former las vegan here. Lol. North > las vegas is full of hard working people for sure. > > > Point well taken. Sad bundy thinks like that and > finds himself calling the kettle black. Hmm.
Aww -- I inadvertently pulled the wool over your eyes.
The quote was from Senator Harry Reid -- but, in keeping with the RfM prohibitions on politicking, I left off his name when I posted the quote.
The closest I ever lived to Nevada was Ogden, Utah -- though I've driven the road from there to the Pacific coast numerous times, with lengthy stop-overs in the state. Once spent the better part of a week camped near the montaine glacier atop Wheeler's Peak and have hung out in Carson City and such places now and then.
I thought Reid's comments were interesting.
He's one of the very few persons on my "favorite LDS" list, though I do not always see eye-to-eye with the guy.