Thread: Rand Paul condemns Cliven Bundy

H2 Note: Bundy Ranch Saturday, April 19 (fast forward to the 14 minute mark)

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Douglas Barclay, Rare Staff
Posted on April 24, 2014

Rand Paul condemns Cliven Bundy

Lorraine Miller, head of the NAACP plans to invite Paul to speak at the organization’s yearly conference in July.

After a New York Times piece revealed several racially insensitive statements made by Cliven Bundy, his early supporters in Washington have distanced themselves from the Nevada rancher and, after Nevada Sen. Dean Heller ripped into Bundy in his own statement to Business Insider, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) followed suit.

“His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” Paul said.

The New York times reported Bundy made the comments when speaking at a sparsely attended press conference on his Nevada ranch.

“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton,” Bundy said over the weekend, according to the Times.

“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,” Bundy told the crowd.

Sen. Paul has tried to rejuvenate relations between the Republican Party and the African-American community.

Lorraine Miller, head of the NAACP plans to invite Paul to speak at the organization’s yearly conference in July.

Miller hailed Paul’s efforts to reform prison sentencing.

“He’s a different voice in the arena that we don’t traditionally hear,” she said.

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