He's been paying them off these years because he's been a major exploiter and abuser of blacks, pay them off and they help you to continue to do so but the bad pub is not good for them. Not surprising he a big DNC contributor. My grandfather was also a huge contributor to the DNC, received invitations to both Kennedy's and Carter's inauguration, also an extremely racist man when it came to blacks. The only use the old timers, pre-babyboomer democrats had for black was securing their votes. Not everything is as it seems, nothing is as it appears.
Clive Bundy is another situation where if you look beyond the surface of his statement you will see not only the truth but also the compassion. This is what happens when a politically naive man speaks his mind. How many of us has spent time in an area of primarily poor blacks living in section 8 housing, seen fatherless homes with single mother of multiple children by multiple men being mostly neglected and uncared for (not all my you but too many to be considered acceptable), not learning any marketable skills, going to terrible schools, killing each other over nothing, the drugs, all of the other crime associated with this lifestyle and not thought that somewhere something has gone terribly wrong.