Bundy’s not a media person. He probably ranches a lot more than he watches TV.
He’s being taken out of context. The entire explanation he’s giving is based on the danger of big government. He starts of with “we don’t want to go back”. He says it more than once.
Then in a concerned and humble tone he HYPOTHESIZES whether it’s better for blacks to be slaves or be bound to the government. Then, still speaking about how the government is injuring blacks, he mentions the break down of the family and jobs and violence issues that so many others have mentioned.
Now, it’s in context, except that he goes on to praise Mexicans as hard working, family oriented, deserving of citizenship.
That is not a racist. That is an untrained, complex man being honest with you about what he sees, and honest people put him in context.
Hypothetical rhetorical questions are too complicated for the modern low-information man to understand. Putting one in context is stretching way beyond the capabilities of a public-schooled television-trained sheeple of the modern age.