It is important for Arizona lawmakers to admit that they made a mistake when they joined a mob of so-called patriots in support of tax-cheater, Cliven Bundy, who does not recognize the legitamacy of the US Federal government.

The New York Times reports that Bundy used his forum to spout out his racist views on social issues:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

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“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. 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.”

This stupifying level of ignorance and bigotry neeeds to be called out for what it is, and our Arizona lawmakers should be ashamed to have wasted time on the AZ House floor extolling the virtues of a law breaking racist.