The 30 or so people who are protecting the racist rancher in Nevada, Cliven Bundy, have no plans to leave so far, sleep in tents, spend the day cleaning their weapons, operate the ranch gate like a checkpoint, protect the cattle from getting rustled, and make neighbors and travelers anxious. The Bureau of Land Management has decided not to confront the militia and Bundy, who owes the state $1.1 million in grazing fees.
Well and good. But a look back at even recent American history may lead one to reasonably conclude that the course of this confrontation between the state and citizens would not have been this peaceful if the skin color of the heavily armed citizens were brown or black. Remember Move, that black radical organization that set up a fort in a black neighborhood of Philadelphia? Move never had at as good Bundy and his men.
