every 100 pound he picked. once he started playing music he found out he could make more in one night playing music than he could get in a week. of picking cotton, yeah. made the switch, got to memphis and recorded some records. we all know that one. you are incredibly fortunate to have interviewed him and met him on a number of occasions. and quite often the stars you see on screen or stage are different to the people you meet in person. what was the situation with b.b. king? what you see is what you get? very much. he was one of the kindest most humble human beings you would ever meet and for someone who influenced music as significantly as he did, he was very self depricating. he always gave cred it to
transparent conversation with the american people so they can see that you can t talk out of both sides of your mouth in this day of everything you say is made public. you got to stand someplace and you got to be consistent about where you stand. he hasn t been. i would say he s been consistent but consistently in the wrong place. actually. i want to play something. bundy was compared to ryan. see if you think this is a fair comparison. i don t see a great deal of difference between paul ryan s comments about lazy inner city people who really just don t want to work and this guy suggesting that they abort their babies and they somehow instead of picking cotton and slavery are being subsidized by the government. there is a continuum of racialized beliefs that has to at least acknowledge the connection between one hand on the one hand the arguments about race that areimplicit and the arguments about race on the otherexplicit.
better under slavery, as bundy said, picking cotton, they had jobs. it was a a full employment program. on the one hand they want to romanticize slavery, but at the same time they are threaten ed y some notion that any kind of democratic policies would take them to slavery. one of the things about it i find so offensive is that it belittles what slavery really was. how evil it was, how destructive it really was. especially compared to health care for everybody. it shows the ignorance, the level of ignorance these people have. for bundy to talk about the fact that families were together and they sat on their porches like it was just a wonderful time. in fact, families were torn apart. it neglects the idea that there was a lot of violence that came upon black people at that time.
this is the ballad of cliven bundy take it cliven! i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro. okay, that s enough of the song. no one could have summed it up better than stephen colbert did. conservatives are fleeing him in droves. one of those that took on bundy s cause fell in love with this guy in the first place. this is how jon stewart talked about it on the daily show. states rites sovereign citizen cliven bundy is apparently also a professor of negro studies. and i ve oven wondered, are they better off as slaves? better picking cotton, having a family life, doing things or better off under government subsidy. well, it s an interesting question. i guess history will be the judge. oh, what s that? history already decided and the answer is no, they re not better off. i want to offer a piece of advice for the television outlet
posted we all know that with the media words are taken out of context, meanings are twisted and they can take anything and turn it into what they want it to be. meanwhile, bundy himself appeared on the alex jones radio show to say the times got it wrong. are those quotes accurate? you told me that that s not exactly what you said. no, that s not exactly what i said. i did say they re aborting the young women are aborting their babies and the young men are in jail. when they was back in the south, they were in the front of their porch as a family unit and they had chickens and gardens to take care of and their men were out working. i didn t say nothing about picking cotton, but they were out working. wow, sir. i ve got to stop you. this is bombshell. this is bombshell. you re telling me you did not say picking cotton? no, i did not say picking cotton. unbelievable.