Bundy has exposed an overbearing government (e.g. special interests). He has exposed the consequences of a short-term, not-so-great society. He has also exposed that addressing issues is susceptible to framing.

He’s right to question the federal government’s contractual terms to save a tortoise, but not the bald eagle, and other feathered and furry friends, in order to preserve the facade of “environmentalism” for profit.

He’s right to question the outcome of degenerative policies which have sponsored dysfunctional families, community violence, drug consumption, abortion/murder (literally destroying people’s future), etc. He was wrong to limit the scope of people affected by those “well-intentioned” policies.

He’s right that it is difficult, if not impossible, to address issues on their merits.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/04/black-bundy-bodyguard-hes-not-a-racist-i-would-take-a-bullet-for-that-man-video/

One of the supporters serving as a bodyguard for Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy during his standoff with federal authorities — and who also happens to be black — said he would still “take a bullet for” Bundy after the rancher made racially inflammatory comments.

CNN’s Dan Simon noticed Jason Bullock, a six-year Army veteran who serves as one of Bundy’s bodyguards, hanging around the at the Nevada ranch. Simon asked Bullock whether he found Bundy’s remarks about blacks and slavery offensive.

“Mr. Bundy is not a racist,” he told CNN. “Ever since I’ve been here, he’s treated me with nothing but hospitality. He’s pretty much treating me just like his own family.”

“I would take a bullet for that man if need be. I look up to him just like I do my own grandfather,” he added. “I believe in his cause and after having met Mr. Bundy a few times, I have a really good feel about him and I’m a pretty good judge of character.”

but yeah hes a racist

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
―H. L. Mencken
(reference: http://izquotes.com/quote/284862)

I’m also really disappointed Professor. You were very patient about deciding whether/where to support the underlying issue, but you sure bailed in a jiffy when the Media said “boo” on an unrelated point.

I’m one of the disappointed ones, too.
I understand the desire to jump at a chance to prove a point you were hoping to be able to make, but it’s not really a good strategy to try to prove that being a moth flying towards a flame is a bad thing by being a moth flying towards a flame.

Many here seem to think that once slavery ended, African Americans suddenly had an equal chance. In reality, slavery was replaced with peonage. Laws required ex-slaves to work as sharecroppers until they paid off ther ‘debts’. The accounting was done by the ex-massa. They bought their supplies from the ex-massa’s company store.

Blacks were rountinely arrested for crimes like vagrancy. When they couldn’t pay their fines, a white guy would pay their debt and they would be forced to work to pay it off. They would be incarcerated on the property of the guy who paid the fine. Convicts were leased out.

The peonage system was worse than slavery. The people running the system had no long term interest in the peons because they didn’t own them. Thousands died in US Steel mines and working on the coke ovens.

This went on until the civil rights era. I thought people who came to this site revered history.