Tea Party Hero, After Talking About ‘The Negro’ Would Now Like To Tell You About ‘The Spanish’

Cliven Bundy became an overnight hero after he refused to pay about one million dollars owed to the federal government — that means, owed to you, the taxpayer. He was a magnet for the Tea Party, those “patriots” who love their country just not the people who populate it. Bundy supporters flocked to his ranch and fended off federal authorities. He’s been a Fox News guest for weeks, Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Dean Heller, Gov. Rick Perry, Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Todd Starnes have all embraced Cliven Bundy.

WATCH: Cliven Bundy Talks About ‘The Negro’

But after a New York Times report published last night, Cliven Bundy is losing his flair.

He told a NY Times reporter he wanted “to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro.”

Yes, “the Negro.”

“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.

“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.”

And Talking Points Memo points to this bit of the Bundy interview that might just be the end of his support from the right wing. Bundy supports undocumented workers and seems to believe America needs to offer them amnesty and a path to citizenship.

“Now let me talk about the Spanish people,” Bundy said in a new video unearthed by New York magazine, right after he concluded his thoughts on “the Negro.”

“I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders,” he says. “But they’re here and they’re people. I 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 structures than most of us white people.”

“When you see those Mexican families, they’re together. They picnic together. They’re spending their time together,” he said. “I’ll tell you, in my way of thinking, they’re awful nice people. We need to have those people join us and be with us.”

Here’s a three-minute video of Bundy’s comments that include his remarks about “the Negro,” and towards the end, his comments about “the Mexicans” and “the Spanish people.”

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