QOTD: The dumbest man in America
by digby
“When you talk about prejudice, we’re talking about not being able to exercise what we think and our feelings — we don’t have freedom to say what we want,” said Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy on CNN. “If I say ‘Negro’ or ‘black boy’ or ‘slave’ — I’m not — if those people cannot take those kinda words and not be offensive, then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done yet.”
Well he is dead. Killed, by the way, by a white supremacist.
I’m actually not sure what the hell he’s trying to say. I think this tweet explains it as well as anything I’ve seen:
Cliven Bundy says he’s just like Rosa Parks. And the back of the bus is public land. And the passengers are cows. Or something. #confused
— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) April 25, 2014
Actually, Matt Yglesias unpacks it seriously here and adds what it probably the most important point: MLK preached non-violence. Civil rights protesters didn’t carry any guns.
And if you want to know how people like Clive Bundy reacted to African Americans arming themselves read up on the Black Panther movement. Let’s just say they weren’t fans.
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