Duck Rodgers
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He's unnecessarily lumping. Widespread generalization of "the negro" is no different than using "Today's blacks," with the exception that the reception of the terminology he used has more furor. It wasn't just the language used that was offensive, it was the message as well. He could have just said, "Blacks are lazy, but it's better than it was." Would have meant basically the same thing.
Then deride the stupidity of it. His life focused on ranching, that's the area of life he is educated in, not being a media PR queen. Those two paragraphs posted above are his lead-in to that other stuff, and he is basically saying that he wants to free those people from government. Which makes any racial spin absolutely absurd. Then he continues with a little kooky comparison about blacks on welfare that he's most familiar with, North Las Vegas blacks, and wonders if they might be better off under slavery to support his previous comments. But he was clearly referring to the prison of an unoccupied mind, nothing else.
then he finishes off his thoughts with this:
Now, let me talk about the Spanish people. You know I understand that they come over here against our constitution and cross our borders. But they’re here and they’re people – and I’ve worked side-by-side a lot of them.
Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structure than most of us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they’re together, they picnic together, they’re spending their time together, and I’ll tell you in my way of thinking they’re awful nice people.
And we need to have those people join us and be with us…. not, not come to our party.
The reality is he is a sloppily spoken advocate of other/different kinds of people. The farthest thing from a racist.