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Ben Carson holds up ISIS
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CNN)—Physician Ben Carson on Thursday held up ISIS, a terrorist group that's beheaded multiple Americans, as an example for the United States during comments before the Republican National Committee.
"We've got ISIS. They've got the wrong philosophy, but they're willing to die for what they believe, while we are busily giving away every belief and every value for the sake of political correctness," he said during his speech at the RNC's winter meeting. "We have to change that."
Carson acknowledged his comments were likely to spark controversy and gain headlines, but he preemptively dismissed the press attention.
"They are just so ridiculous," he said, to laughter from the crowd.
The remarks are similar to ones he made previously, likening the United States government to Nazi Germany in that both, he argued, worked to silence their opponents. Carson stood by those comments when pressed in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
It's that very penchant — for frank and often controversial comments — that has made him so popular with the GOP base, and turned the retired neurosurgeon into a rising conservative star who just last month polled third in a CNN/ORC survey of the potential GOP presidential field.
He's made no secret of his interest in the race, and recently said he "feel fingers" from God to run.
Many within the establishment wing of the party remain wary of him, however, because of his talent for the very remarks that make him so popular with the far right. He also started a firestorm of criticism over comments he made that Obamacare was the "worst thing" to happen to the U.S. since slavery.
But his appearance at the RNC's winter meeting, alongside the likes of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, suggest that Carson's popularity on the right has earned him some notice from the establishment as the party charts its course heading into 2016.
"We've got ISIS. They've got the wrong philosophy, but they're willing to die for what they believe, while we are busily giving away every belief and every value for the sake of political correctness," he said during his speech at the RNC's winter meeting. "We have to change that."
Carson acknowledged his comments were likely to spark controversy and gain headlines, but he preemptively dismissed the press attention.
"They are just so ridiculous," he said, to laughter from the crowd.
The remarks are similar to ones he made previously, likening the United States government to Nazi Germany in that both, he argued, worked to silence their opponents. Carson stood by those comments when pressed in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
It's that very penchant — for frank and often controversial comments — that has made him so popular with the GOP base, and turned the retired neurosurgeon into a rising conservative star who just last month polled third in a CNN/ORC survey of the potential GOP presidential field.
He's made no secret of his interest in the race, and recently said he "feel
Many within the establishment wing of the party remain wary of him, however, because of his talent for the very remarks that make him so popular with the far right. He also started a firestorm of criticism over comments he made that Obamacare was the "worst thing" to happen to the U.S. since slavery.
But his appearance at the RNC's winter meeting, alongside the likes of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, suggest that Carson's popularity on the right has earned him some notice from the establishment as the party charts its course heading into 2016.
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Ben Carson: Prisons show homosexuality is a choice
because inmates go in straight, leave gay
SEE VIDEO HERE
Prisons prove being gay is a choice because many people enter the slammer straight and walk out gay, potential presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday.
The Baltimore neurosurgeon made the outlandish claims to television host Chris Cuomo on a segment of CNN’s morning show “New Day” after the anchor asked if he thought people had control over homosexuality during a discussion about same-sex marriage.
“Absolutely,” Carson began his bizarre argument. “Because a lot of people who go into prison — go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay. So did something happen while they were in there?”
The 63-year-old, who announced Tuesday he’s mulling a 2016 run for President as a Republican, stuck to his guns, even asking the host if he denies that’s true.
Cuomo said he doesn’t believe it’s a basis for understanding homosexuality.
“A lot of people go into jail as a drug addict and they come out as a criminal,” Cuomo responded. “Does that mean that all drug addicts are criminals?”
Carson’s controversial remarks come after Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy sparked a similar debate Tuesday when he said he “disagrees” with homosexuality and the gay “lifestyle” of MLB’s inclusion ambassador Billy Bean, who was visiting the team to talk about the issue of acceptance of gays in sports.
“I completely understand why someone who believes it is not a choice, that you’re born with it, would take issue with my beliefs, that it is a lifestyle,” Murphy, a devout Christian, told the Daily News.
Carson ended his conversation by saying any two people, regardless of sexual preference, should be granted the same legal rights without having to tack on the word “marriage” to their relationship.
The Baltimore neurosurgeon made the outlandish claims to television host Chris Cuomo on a segment of CNN’s morning show “New Day” after the anchor asked if he thought people had control over homosexuality during a discussion about same-sex marriage.
“Absolutely,” Carson began his bizarre argument. “Because a lot of people who go into prison — go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay. So did something happen while they were in there?”
The 63-year-old, who announced Tuesday he’s mulling a 2016 run for President as a Republican, stuck to his guns, even asking the host if he denies that’s true.
Cuomo said he doesn’t believe it’s a basis for understanding homosexuality.
“A lot of people go into jail as a drug addict and they come out as a criminal,” Cuomo responded. “Does that mean that all drug addicts are criminals?”
Carson’s controversial remarks come after Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy sparked a similar debate Tuesday when he said he “disagrees” with homosexuality and the gay “lifestyle” of MLB’s inclusion ambassador Billy Bean, who was visiting the team to talk about the issue of acceptance of gays in sports.
“I completely understand why someone who believes it is not a choice, that you’re born with it, would take issue with my beliefs, that it is a lifestyle,” Murphy, a devout Christian, told the Daily News.
Carson ended his conversation by saying any two people, regardless of sexual preference, should be granted the same legal rights without having to tack on the word “marriage” to their relationship.
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Anna Navarro a Republican strategist and commentator, who was national Hispanic campaign chairwoman for John McCain in 2008 and national Hispanic co-chair for Jon Huntsman's 2012 campaign said on CNN this morning:
"Ben Carson sounds like 50 shades of crazy"
The people in prison are trying to recreate sex with a woman through anal penetration of a man. They are forced to adopt that lifestyle because of their inability to copulate with a woman. They live in close proximity to another man and can develop a strong bond. Drop a woman in their cage and they will tear that up.
Once they leave prison, they go back to a heterosexual lifestyle.
A person that is gay has the choice of a man or women and chooses somebody of the same sex.
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He is from the neighborhood . Why not vote fro him? Heck even on the main board dudes were I voted for O cause he is a brotha. Yet these same dudes pulling this not voting for Carson bruh please. 
He is from the neighborhood . Why not vote fro him? Heck even on the main board dudes were I voted for O cause he is a brotha. Yet these same dudes pulling this not voting for Carson bruh please.
Isn't that racist?
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Ben Carson listens to a question during an interview during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. on Feb. 26, 2015.
From idol to ‘sellout’: How Ben Carson is losing his legacy
Growing up in the predominantly black neighborhood of Forest Park in Baltimore, Erica Puentes considered Ben Carson her ultimate role model.
“We were fed a healthy diet of Ben Carson. Ben Carson is the figure you have to look up to, model yourself to be,” Puentes, a 20-year-old University of Maryland College Park student, recalls now. “We were working class students of color and he just represented hope.”
But now, as Republican presidential candidate and the only African-American in the crowded GOP field, Carson may be losing that legacy and disillusioning legions of fans who grew up idolizing him.
The renowned neurosurgeon – who overcame hardscrabble roots in inner-city Detroit to become the head of neurosurgery at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and the first person ever to successfully separate twins conjoined at the brain – has been a folk hero, role model, and icon for many minority families. His memoir “Gifted Hands” was made into a TV movie, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. Last year, he tied for sixth in a Gallup poll as the most admired man in America.
Carson’s place in the nation’s cultural psyche was immortalized by “The Wire,” HBO’s acclaimed series set in Baltimore. When a teacher in one episode asks troubled kids their aspirations, most say they want to be drug kingpins. But one boy says, “I wanna be a pediatric neurosurgeon like that one n***er.”
But now, with his very conservative views and harsh criticisms of President Barack Obama, Carson has disillusioned many who once looked up to him.
“Everyone I’ve spoken to is just completely disappointed. The community definitely does not support him,” Puentes said. “He was a working class hero to us and now he’s advocating on behalf of a party that we believe and know advocates for the interests of more wealthy people.”
Carson’s party affiliation alone is a big problem, explained Leah Wright Rigueur, a professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kenney School of Government and author of “The Loneliness of the Black Republican.”
“African-Americans fundamentally believe that the Republican Party does not care about Black people and that’s a very hard legacy to overcome,” Rigueur told msnbc. “Historically, Black Republicans … do not fare as well amongst black audiences.”
When Carson went to meet with community leaders in Baltimore after riots broke out following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, community leaders clashed with him over how to address the racial unrest plaguing the city where Carson had worked for three decades. Carson, according to those who attended the meeting, reiterated a message of self-reliance and turning the other cheek.
J. Wyndal Gordon, an attorney representing some who had been arrested in the protests, said he found Carson’s message simplistic.
“Oh how novel, work hard and go to school,” Gordon told msnbc. “We’ve been teaching ourselves and our kids that for decades and generations … Dig a little deeper.”
Gordon said that while Carson’s legacy in Baltimore is strong – “I’ve seen judges require defendants read his book [as part of sentencing],” he said – it’s fading now.
“He’s losing credibility with the Black community because he’s disconnected himself,” Gordon said. “The man has done great things in his time, it’s unfortunate that it takes a lifetime to build a reputation, but only a minute to lose it.”
‘Why do you wanna muck it up with politics?’
In 2002, then-Maryland state Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele – who went on to be the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee – sat down with Carson, who at the time was interested in getting involved in politics.
“Having an enormous amount of respect for him that I did at the time – and still do – and the incredible legacy that he’s created,” Steele told msnbc. “My question to him was why do you wanna muck it up with politics?”
Eleven years later, in 2013, Carson broke onto the national stage unexpectedly, when a speech he gave at the National Prayer Breakfast, criticizing President Obama who sat two seats away, went viral. A YouTube video of Carson’s lengthy, rambling address has received 3.7 million views to date.
Many on the right cheered on the Black conservative who’d taken on the president, but the Black community balked immediately.
“Ben Carson is this really big figure within American circles but especially within Black circles, but here he is willing to disparage the biggest name in Black circles,” Rigueur said. “People did not take kindly, whatever their politics are.”
Carson soon became a fixture on Fox News, spouting off controversial view after controversial view: Obamacare is the worst thing ‘since slavery,’ he said. He likened homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia, when he said none of the three “get to change the definition of marriage.” Americans are “guilty” of human sacrifice in abortion, he said.
No matter what you did before, Steele said the presidential bid “becomes the first paragraph in your biography.”
Now, as a presidential candidate, Carson is polling well: a late May Quinnipiac poll saw Carson join the top tier, tying with five candidates including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a national poll of Republican voters. A few days earlier, he won the Southern Republican Leadership Conference’s straw poll, besting Walker, one of the field’s leaders.
The candidate, whose staff ignored repeated inquiries for this story, promises to balance the budget, lower taxes, fight for socially conservative policies, and be tough on Russia, but his campaign slogan – ”Heal, Inspire, Revive” – signals that his campaign is rooted in that folk hero status as much his hard-line politics.
‘Mythical creatures’
Black Republicans are a small group that tends to be fairly quiet, Rigueur said, because they struggle to find comfortable footing both within the GOP and their own communities. She estimated that 30% of African-Americans identify as socially conservative, but don’t vote for national Republicans.
“We treat Black Republicans like these mythical creatures that don’t really exist, but they do,” Rigueur said.
The most vocal Black Republicans – the ones you see, who receive funding and a following within the GOP – are the most conservative ones, Rigueur added.
“Black Republicans who receive a bigger platform within the GOP tend to be the ones who mirror the conservative Republicans. We’re going to see more Tim Scotts, Mia Loves, Hermain Cains, Ben Carsons,” Rigueur said, referring to the South Carolina Republican senator, Utah Republican representative, and 2012 presidential candidate, and Carson, respectively.
As such, they tend to win more white votes than black ones: in Sen. Scott’s 2014 election, for example, just 10% of the district’s Black voters cast ballots for the South Carolina Republican, according to NBC News exit polling, while 88% of the district’s white voters did the same.
‘That resonated with us’
Puentes recalled an incident when she was in the fourth grade when a fellow student acted out in class. Instead of chastising the boy, Puentes said, the teacher reminded them that Carson had overcome anger issues as a child – even that he’d once tried to stab a friend over an argument over what was on the radio.
“She said, don’t write off your fellow students because we matter. No matter what we’re going through, we have to stop and think,” Puentes recalled.
“Our teachers would tell us he also came from a low-income family,” she added. “People wrote him off, told him he wasn’t intelligent and that resonated with us a lot because we’re people of color, we’d been written off too.”
Now, Puentes said, Carson is a “sell out.”
“I can’t really trust him and it’s really disappointing to me, because I really did look up to him,” she said.
Ben Carson listens to a question during an interview during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. on Feb. 26, 2015.
From idol to ‘sellout’: How Ben Carson is losing his legacy
Growing up in the predominantly black neighborhood of Forest Park in Baltimore, Erica Puentes considered Ben Carson her ultimate role model.
“We were fed a healthy diet of Ben Carson. Ben Carson is the figure you have to look up to, model yourself to be,” Puentes, a 20-year-old University of Maryland College Park student, recalls now. “We were working class students of color and he just represented hope.”
But now, as Republican presidential candidate and the only African-American in the crowded GOP field, Carson may be losing that legacy and disillusioning legions of fans who grew up idolizing him.
The renowned neurosurgeon – who overcame hardscrabble roots in inner-city Detroit to become the head of neurosurgery at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and the first person ever to successfully separate twins conjoined at the brain – has been a folk hero, role model, and icon for many minority families. His memoir “Gifted Hands” was made into a TV movie, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. Last year, he tied for sixth in a Gallup poll as the most admired man in America.
Carson’s place in the nation’s cultural psyche was immortalized by “The Wire,” HBO’s acclaimed series set in Baltimore. When a teacher in one episode asks troubled kids their aspirations, most say they want to be drug kingpins. But one boy says, “I wanna be a pediatric neurosurgeon like that one n***er.”
But now, with his very conservative views and harsh criticisms of President Barack Obama, Carson has disillusioned many who once looked up to him.
“Everyone I’ve spoken to is just completely disappointed. The community definitely does not support him,” Puentes said. “He was a working class hero to us and now he’s advocating on behalf of a party that we believe and know advocates for the interests of more wealthy people.”
Carson’s party affiliation alone is a big problem, explained Leah Wright Rigueur, a professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kenney School of Government and author of “The Loneliness of the Black Republican.”
“African-Americans fundamentally believe that the Republican Party does not care about Black people and that’s a very hard legacy to overcome,” Rigueur told msnbc. “Historically, Black Republicans … do not fare as well amongst black audiences.”
When Carson went to meet with community leaders in Baltimore after riots broke out following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, community leaders clashed with him over how to address the racial unrest plaguing the city where Carson had worked for three decades. Carson, according to those who attended the meeting, reiterated a message of self-reliance and turning the other cheek.
J. Wyndal Gordon, an attorney representing some who had been arrested in the protests, said he found Carson’s message simplistic.
“Oh how novel, work hard and go to school,” Gordon told msnbc. “We’ve been teaching ourselves and our kids that for decades and generations … Dig a little deeper.”
Gordon said that while Carson’s legacy in Baltimore is strong – “I’ve seen judges require defendants read his book [as part of sentencing],” he said – it’s fading now.
“He’s losing credibility with the Black community because he’s disconnected himself,” Gordon said. “The man has done great things in his time, it’s unfortunate that it takes a lifetime to build a reputation, but only a minute to lose it.”
‘Why do you wanna muck it up with politics?’
In 2002, then-Maryland state Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele – who went on to be the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee – sat down with Carson, who at the time was interested in getting involved in politics.
“Having an enormous amount of respect for him that I did at the time – and still do – and the incredible legacy that he’s created,” Steele told msnbc. “My question to him was why do you wanna muck it up with politics?”
Eleven years later, in 2013, Carson broke onto the national stage unexpectedly, when a speech he gave at the National Prayer Breakfast, criticizing President Obama who sat two seats away, went viral. A YouTube video of Carson’s lengthy, rambling address has received 3.7 million views to date.
Many on the right cheered on the Black conservative who’d taken on the president, but the Black community balked immediately.
“Ben Carson is this really big figure within American circles but especially within Black circles, but here he is willing to disparage the biggest name in Black circles,” Rigueur said. “People did not take kindly, whatever their politics are.”
Carson soon became a fixture on Fox News, spouting off controversial view after controversial view: Obamacare is the worst thing ‘since slavery,’ he said. He likened homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia, when he said none of the three “get to change the definition of marriage.” Americans are “guilty” of human sacrifice in abortion, he said.
No matter what you did before, Steele said the presidential bid “becomes the first paragraph in your biography.”
Now, as a presidential candidate, Carson is polling well: a late May Quinnipiac poll saw Carson join the top tier, tying with five candidates including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a national poll of Republican voters. A few days earlier, he won the Southern Republican Leadership Conference’s straw poll, besting Walker, one of the field’s leaders.
The candidate, whose staff ignored repeated inquiries for this story, promises to balance the budget, lower taxes, fight for socially conservative policies, and be tough on Russia, but his campaign slogan – ”Heal, Inspire, Revive” – signals that his campaign is rooted in that folk hero status as much his hard-line politics.
‘Mythical creatures’
Black Republicans are a small group that tends to be fairly quiet, Rigueur said, because they struggle to find comfortable footing both within the GOP and their own communities. She estimated that 30% of African-Americans identify as socially conservative, but don’t vote for national Republicans.
“We treat Black Republicans like these mythical creatures that don’t really exist, but they do,” Rigueur said.
The most vocal Black Republicans – the ones you see, who receive funding and a following within the GOP – are the most conservative ones, Rigueur added.
“Black Republicans who receive a bigger platform within the GOP tend to be the ones who mirror the conservative Republicans. We’re going to see more Tim Scotts, Mia Loves, Hermain Cains, Ben Carsons,” Rigueur said, referring to the South Carolina Republican senator, Utah Republican representative, and 2012 presidential candidate, and Carson, respectively.
As such, they tend to win more white votes than black ones: in Sen. Scott’s 2014 election, for example, just 10% of the district’s Black voters cast ballots for the South Carolina Republican, according to NBC News exit polling, while 88% of the district’s white voters did the same.
‘That resonated with us’
Puentes recalled an incident when she was in the fourth grade when a fellow student acted out in class. Instead of chastising the boy, Puentes said, the teacher reminded them that Carson had overcome anger issues as a child – even that he’d once tried to stab a friend over an argument over what was on the radio.
“She said, don’t write off your fellow students because we matter. No matter what we’re going through, we have to stop and think,” Puentes recalled.
“Our teachers would tell us he also came from a low-income family,” she added. “People wrote him off, told him he wasn’t intelligent and that resonated with us a lot because we’re people of color, we’d been written off too.”
Now, Puentes said, Carson is a “sell out.”
“I can’t really trust him and it’s really disappointing to me, because I really did look up to him,” she said.
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Ben Carson calls #BlackLivesMatter a distraction
Dr. Ben Carson slammed the Black Lives Matter movement as a distraction on Monday, in an editorial that laid out the Republican presidential candidate’s civil rights agenda.
“The ‘BlackLivesMatter’ movement is focused on the wrong targets, to the detriment of black who would like to see real change,” the 2016 field’s only black presidential contender wrote in USA Today, calling the idea that the movement’s protests against Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders could bring change “lunacy.”
Carson’s presidential profile is on the rise: in the wake of the first GOP 2016 debate, he is polling in second place in Iowa and he recently attracted a massive crowd at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. As the only black man in a presidential race where racial inequality is a hot topic, Carson has a unique voice, but it’s a fine line for a Republican candidate to walk.
The Black Lives Matter movement was born in the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and has consistently drawn attention to the stream of deaths of unarmed black people at the hands of police. While Carson acknowledges that “racial policing issues exist and some rotten policemen took actions that killed innocent people,” he seems to signal that those issues will resolve themselves. The editorial reiterates his long-held belief that black people can overcome inequality through hard work and education – and takes the age-old argument that black people are solely responsible for the injustice they face – to the next level.
Carson argued that the racial profiling is not the real problem, positing instead that economic distress has created a generation of “hopeless” black Americans who aren’t employed and are destroying their own families through “self-inflicted wounds.”
“The notion that some lives might matter less than others is meant to enrage. That anger is distracting us from what matters most. We’re right to be angry, but we have to stay smart,” he wrote.
Carson cited his own famous rags-to-riches story from the inner city of Detroit to an internationally renowned career as a pediatric neurosurgeon as inspiration for his own position that teacher’s unions, Hollywood, and inner city violence are among the true culprits of racial inequality.
Carson laid out a seven targets he argues should be lobbied for change: the board of education (for destroying “black lives not in the ones in two, but in whole generations”), the entertainment industry for promoting violence in movies like “Straight Outta Compton,” City Hall for unsafe communities, and unnamed crack houses for “selling poison to our children,” (though its unclear how he expects black people to combat this specific drug trade). He also takes Washington D.C. to task, calling out Democrats for fighting a war on poverty with public housing welfare programs, and Republicans for excluding them.
coon, or not?
hes right about that last part..
Black Lives Matter a distraction
What an anti-historical, willfully moronic, non-critical thinking, point of view. Carson and any Black persons who co-signs his stupidity are devoid of even a scintilla of knowledge about how Black people have survived on American soil since 1619. To witness individuals display such a dramatic paucity of knowledge, in the year 2015, when access to the truth is only a few key strokes away via the internet is truly ominous.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | SEPT. 3, 2015| http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/opinion/the-truth-of-black-lives-matter.html
The Republican Party and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that has sprung up in response to the all-too-common police killings of unarmed African-Americans across the country. The intent of the campaign — evident in comments by politicians like Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky — is to cast the phrase “Black Lives Matter” as an inflammatory or even hateful anti-white expression that has no legitimate place in a civil rights campaign.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas crystallized this view when he said the other week that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were he alive today, would be “appalled” by the movement’s focus on the skin color of the unarmed people who are disproportionately killed in encounters with the police. This argument betrays a disturbing indifference to or at best a profound ignorance of history in general and of the civil rights movement in particular. From the very beginning, the movement focused unapologetically on bringing an end to state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans and to acts of racial terror very much like the one that took nine lives at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in June.
The civil rights movement was intended to make Congress and Americans confront the fact that African-Americans were being killed with impunity for offenses like trying to vote, and had the right to life and to equal protection under the law. The movement sought a cross-racial appeal, but at every step of the way used expressly racial terms to describe the death and destruction that was visited upon black people because they were black.
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Even in the early 20th century, civil rights groups documented cases in which African-Americans died horrible deaths after being turned away from hospitals reserved for whites, or were lynched — which meant being hanged, burned or dismembered — in front of enormous crowds that had gathered to enjoy the sight.</B></span>
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The Charleston church massacre has eerie parallels to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. — the most heinous act of that period — which occurred at the height of the early civil rights movement. Four black girls were murdered that Sunday. When Dr. King eulogized them, he did not shy away from the fact that the dead had been killed because they were black, by monstrous men whose leaders fed them “the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism.” He said that the dead “have something to say” to a complacent federal government that cut back-room deals with Southern Dixiecrats, as well as to “every Negro who has passively accepted the evil system of segregation and who has stood on the sidelines in a mighty struggle for justice.” Shock over the bombing pushed Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act the following year.
During this same period, freedom riders and voting rights activists led by the young John Lewis offered themselves up to be beaten nearly to death, week after week, day after day, in the South so that the country would witness Jim Crow brutality and meaningfully respond to it. This grisly method succeeded in Selma, Ala., in 1965 when scenes of troopers bludgeoning voting rights demonstrators compelled a previously hesitant Congress to acknowledge that black people deserved full citizenship, too, and to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Along the way, there was never a doubt as to what the struggle was about: securing citizenship rights for black people who had long been denied them.
The “Black Lives Matter” movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of the police, and is of a piece with this history. Demonstrators who chant the phrase are making the same declaration that voting rights and civil rights activists made a half-century ago. They are not asserting that black lives are more precious than white lives. They are underlining an indisputable fact — that the lives of black citizens in this country historically have not mattered, and have been discounted and devalued. People who are unacquainted with this history are understandably uncomfortable with the language of the movement. But politicians who know better and seek to strip this issue of its racial content and context are acting in bad faith. They are trying to cover up an unpleasant truth and asking the country to collude with them.
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Ben Carson should stick to performing surgery and you should GTFOH with this bullshit.
Apparently, he has taken your advice. Looks like he is trying
to perfect and entirely new way to conduct brain surgery:
By attempting to reach his brain by putting his foot in his mouth
to perfect and entirely new way to conduct brain surgery:
By attempting to reach his brain by putting his foot in his mouth
Carson comments on Muslims set off storm
Should a Muslim be president? A Mormon? A Jew?
The Founding Fathers thought the question of religion so important that they wrote into
the Constitution that there should never be a “religious test” for public office. Despite that
admonition, American politics and politicians have periodically tested whether a candidate
should be disqualified because of their religion, from Catholics Al Smith and John Kennedy
through Mormon Mitt Romney.
Now Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is raising the issue anew, saying flatly
that a Muslim should not be president.
That likely strikes a chord with some voters, such as the one who told Donald Trump at a
town hall meeting that Muslims are a problem in the United States
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article35990124.html#storylink=cpy.
We need a real black house. Blacks are god whites are devils. Will we help them to finish destroying the earth? Or will we wake up in time to stop the destruction of our own selves and the earth?
As the white world increase our black asses decrease.
As the white world increase our black asses decrease.
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The Soft Bigotry of Ben Carson
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by Charles M. Blow | September 23, 2015 | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/charles-blow-the-soft-bigotry-of-ben-carson.html
The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”
At first, he stood by that outrageously prejudiced remark, but after coming under fire from not only Muslim groups but also many conservatives, he soon tried to walk it back, to cushion and to caveat it.
On Monday night, he posted a message on Facebook that included this line: “I could never support a candidate for President of the United States that was Muslim and had not renounced the central tenant of Islam: Sharia Law.”
Then on Tuesday, at a news conference, Carson said, “It has nothing to do with being a Muslim.” He continued: “That was the question that was specifically asked. If the question had been asked about a Christian and they said, ‘Would you support a Christian who supports establishing a theocracy?’ I would have said no.”
Only his original comment was unambiguous: It had everything to do with being a Muslim. And it was bigoted.
But this isn’t Carson’s first time at this rodeo. This has become his modus operandi.
Carson has a way of speaking in a flat, sing-song-y tone while flashing his toothy, 100-watt smile, that can be utterly disarming, if not completely charming.
His undeniable pedigree as an acclaimed pediatric neurosurgeon adds an air of gravitas to his nonsensical utterances and provides some cover for what can be poisonously harmful, over-the-line invectives.
Carson says in low register what others shout in anger, and he gets a bit of a pass because of the discordant message and method of delivery.
Just because a person is soft-spoken doesn’t mean that he is well-spoken.
Since Carson used his 2013 speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to criticize President Obama’s policies to his face, he has been lionized in conservative quarters.
It’s not that others have not criticized the president before or since, but it was the particularity of the racial imagery of Carson’s critique — one smart, accomplished black man undressing another in public — that gave it particular power. It insulated the attack from racial characterization. He said things from the lips of a black conservative that roiled the minds of white ones. And it represented a prominent breaking of ranks, a slicing off of black solidarity from not only Democratic loyalty but also from fidelity with this president.
Since then, Carson’s rhetoric has seemed to get only more reckless.
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<tr><td><font face="tahoma" size="4" color="#FFFFFF"> On the night earlier this year that Barack Obama stepped before the nation to deliver his sixth State of the Union address, Ben Carson—a political newcomer who harbors dreams of soon giving his first—settled into a sofa just a few blocks away. He was eager to hate everything the president was about to say.
Carson had come to the Capitol Hill home of Armstrong Williams, a conservative media impresario who officially serves as Carson’s business manager and who lately has functioned as Carson’s unofficial image-maker and political adviser as well. As the two men turned to the TV, they began dissecting Obama’s performance.
"He looks good," Williams said. "He looks clean. Shirt’s white. The tie. He looks elegant."
"Like most psychopaths," Carson grumbled. "That’s why they’re successful. That’s the way they look. They all look great."
<font color="#d90000">READ:</font> <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/ben-carson-tea-party?currentPage=1"><u>What If Sarah Palin Were a Brain Surgeon?</u></a> </font>
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He has called Obama a psychopath and a liar. He has compared Obama’s supporters to Nazi sympathizers. He has said that Obamacare is the “worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” even worse than the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
He has asserted that being gay is “absolutely” a choice as evidenced by people who “go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.” He later apologized in a statement that read in part:
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended.”
He has asserted that being gay is “absolutely” a choice as evidenced by people who “go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.” He later apologized in a statement that read in part:
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended.”
And even when his rhetoric isn’t reckless, it can be wrongheaded.
He has used the shallowness of race as a biological construct to disavow and diminish the depth of racism as a very real cultural construct.
And he makes the mistake many people do, of using his personal story of success as a societal prescription for all problems. I have always held that working hard and following the rules are their own reward, but I am not naïve enough to believe that personal behavior can completely countervail structural oppression.
Carson knows that his outrageous antics in his role as the anti-Obama are a most profitable enterprise. He mixes political critique with Christian theological messaging to rake in quite a bit of money on the lecture circuit. As Politico reported in July, Carson “brought in nearly $2 million delivering inspirational speeches to faith-based groups like Christian high schools and pregnancy centers in 2014,” with speaking fees ranging “from $12,320 to $48,500.”
This is a sad turn — spurred, I believe, by profit motive — for such a great legacy.
I, like many other African-Americans, had come to see Carson as a hero before his foray into politics because of the resonance of his personal story — a poor inner-city child being raised by a driven single mother who valued education and instilled in him a sense of character that would allow him to become a staggering success.
Carson was the embodiment of possibility. His 1990 book, “Gifted Hands,” was required reading for many young people.
But as a political figure, his stature is diminished as he reveals himself to be intolerant, bordering on soft bigotry, and also reckless and needlessly inflammatory. No one can discount what Carson accomplished professionally, but those accomplishments must now stand shoulder to shoulder with this new persona: whisper-soft purveyor of hyperbolic hucksterism.
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The Soft Bigotry of Ben Carson
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by Charles M. Blow | September 23, 2015 | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/charles-blow-the-soft-bigotry-of-ben-carson.html
The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”
At first, he stood by that outrageously prejudiced remark, but after coming under fire from not only Muslim groups but also many conservatives, he soon tried to walk it back, to cushion and to caveat it.
On Monday night, he posted a message on Facebook that included this line: “I could never support a candidate for President of the United States that was Muslim and had not renounced the central tenant of Islam: Sharia Law.”
Then on Tuesday, at a news conference, Carson said, “It has nothing to do with being a Muslim.” He continued: “That was the question that was specifically asked. If the question had been asked about a Christian and they said, ‘Would you support a Christian who supports establishing a theocracy?’ I would have said no.”
Only his original comment was unambiguous: It had everything to do with being a Muslim. And it was bigoted.
But this isn’t Carson’s first time at this rodeo. This has become his modus operandi.
Carson has a way of speaking in a flat, sing-song-y tone while flashing his toothy, 100-watt smile, that can be utterly disarming, if not completely charming.
His undeniable pedigree as an acclaimed pediatric neurosurgeon adds an air of gravitas to his nonsensical utterances and provides some cover for what can be poisonously harmful, over-the-line invectives.
Carson says in low register what others shout in anger, and he gets a bit of a pass because of the discordant message and method of delivery.
Just because a person is soft-spoken doesn’t mean that he is well-spoken.
Since Carson used his 2013 speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to criticize President Obama’s policies to his face, he has been lionized in conservative quarters.
It’s not that others have not criticized the president before or since, but it was the particularity of the racial imagery of Carson’s critique — one smart, accomplished black man undressing another in public — that gave it particular power. It insulated the attack from racial characterization. He said things from the lips of a black conservative that roiled the minds of white ones. And it represented a prominent breaking of ranks, a slicing off of black solidarity from not only Democratic loyalty but also from fidelity with this president.
Since then, Carson’s rhetoric has seemed to get only more reckless.
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Carson had come to the Capitol Hill home of Armstrong Williams, a conservative media impresario who officially serves as Carson’s business manager and who lately has functioned as Carson’s unofficial image-maker and political adviser as well. As the two men turned to the TV, they began dissecting Obama’s performance.
"He looks good," Williams said. "He looks clean. Shirt’s white. The tie. He looks elegant."
"Like most psychopaths," Carson grumbled. "That’s why they’re successful. That’s the way they look. They all look great."
<font color="#d90000">READ:</font> <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/ben-carson-tea-party?currentPage=1"><u>What If Sarah Palin Were a Brain Surgeon?</u></a> </font>
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He has called Obama a psychopath and a liar. He has compared Obama’s supporters to Nazi sympathizers. He has said that Obamacare is the “worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” even worse than the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
He has asserted that being gay is “absolutely” a choice as evidenced by people who “go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.” He later apologized in a statement that read in part:
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended.”
He has asserted that being gay is “absolutely” a choice as evidenced by people who “go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.” He later apologized in a statement that read in part:
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended.”
And even when his rhetoric isn’t reckless, it can be wrongheaded.
He has used the shallowness of race as a biological construct to disavow and diminish the depth of racism as a very real cultural construct.
And he makes the mistake many people do, of using his personal story of success as a societal prescription for all problems. I have always held that working hard and following the rules are their own reward, but I am not naïve enough to believe that personal behavior can completely countervail structural oppression.
Carson knows that his outrageous antics in his role as the anti-Obama are a most profitable enterprise. He mixes political critique with Christian theological messaging to rake in quite a bit of money on the lecture circuit. As Politico reported in July, Carson “brought in nearly $2 million delivering inspirational speeches to faith-based groups like Christian high schools and pregnancy centers in 2014,” with speaking fees ranging “from $12,320 to $48,500.”
This is a sad turn — spurred, I believe, by profit motive — for such a great legacy.
I, like many other African-Americans, had come to see Carson as a hero before his foray into politics because of the resonance of his personal story — a poor inner-city child being raised by a driven single mother who valued education and instilled in him a sense of character that would allow him to become a staggering success.
Carson was the embodiment of possibility. His 1990 book, “Gifted Hands,” was required reading for many young people.
But as a political figure, his stature is diminished as he reveals himself to be intolerant, bordering on soft bigotry, and also reckless and needlessly inflammatory. No one can discount what Carson accomplished professionally, but those accomplishments must now stand shoulder to shoulder with this new persona: whisper-soft purveyor of hyperbolic hucksterism.
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Dr. Ben Carson Believe Voters Shouldn't Elect A Muslim President
Ben Carson says the United States should not elect a Muslim president.
"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that," the retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Carson's comment comes on the heels of GOP front-runner Donald Trump taking a question from an campaign rally attendee who said, "We have a problem in this country; it's called Muslims."
Published on Sep 22, 2015
Ben Carson says the United States should not elect a Muslim president.
"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that," the retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Carson's comment comes on the heels of GOP front-runner Donald Trump taking a question from an campaign rally attendee who said, "We have a problem in this country; it's called Muslims."
Watch the exemplification of a Negro 'Cooning' below
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Carson is a fucking blithering idiot about everything except brain surgery
Here's a guy who probably doesn't know that todays current earth was the Pangaea 175 million years ago
It's all about 'white supremacy' Ben
It's the same racist 'white supremacy' attitude that will look at two equally qualified resumes sitting on a desk. One persons name is DeShawn Jackson and the other name is Tanner Dobbelman. DeShawn's resume will be thrown in the garbage because the racist white person evaluating the resumes will 95% correctly assume that DeShawn is a Black American; and they don't want to hire a black, so why bother bringing him in for an interview despite the equal qualifications indicated on his resume vs. the 'white' candidate Tanner.
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http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...name-resume-50-percent-less-likely-get-respo/
It's all about 'white supremacy'
I'd like to see the comparison between African Americans holding
a bachelor degree and Caucasians holding a high school diploma.
Or, maybe I don't . . .
Political bigotry at its greatest.
Where did you get this one?
Another right wing made up term.
Like reverse discrimination!
source: Think Progress
A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout
African-American students need to complete two more levels of education to have the same probability of getting a job as their white peers, a new study by Young Invincibles finds.
The researchers looked at data mainly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census, isolating the effects of race and education on unemployment. They found that an African-American male with an associates degree has around the same chance of getting a job as a white male with just a high school diploma. “At every level of education, race impacts a person’s chance of getting a job,” Tom Allison, a research manager and one of the study’s authors, told ThinkProgress.
The gap in employment chances between whites and African Americans leads to a huge gap in unemployment rates, even long after the recession. In May of this year, African-American millennials faced a 16.6 percent unemployment rate, compared to a 7.1 percent rate for whites of the same age range (18 to 34 years old).
The study attributes the employment gap mainly to hiring discrimination, high incarceration rates for black people, and African Americans’ lack of inherited wealth from past generations due to a long history of discrimination. Less inherited wealth results in low homeownership rates and high deficits among African Americans: While a college-educated white American has an average net worth of $75,000, a college-educated black American has a net worth of less than $17,500.
But according to Rory O’Sullivan, Young Invincibles’ deputy director, there’s some good news.
According to the study, even though unemployment is higher among African Americans at every level of education, the added gains in income and employment opportunities gained from getting an additional degree is much greater for African Americans than whites. For example, a professional degree gives a black male a 146 percent larger increase in employment opportunities than his white counterparts. A bachelor’s degree raises the median wage of a black man by $10,000 per year, compared to a raise of $6,100 per year for a white man.
Allison also emphasized that the racial gap for both women and men gets smaller with higher and higher degrees. The employment gap between black and white men with bachelors degrees is only 5 percent. For women, it’s just 3 percent.
Even so, African Americans are much less likely to attain higher education degrees than whites, even though such degrees are becoming more and more valuable compared to high school degrees. According to Census Bureau data, blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to drop out of high school and are half as likely to get a post-baccalaureate degree.
As for solutions, Young Invincibles suggests early counseling to raise awareness of the benefits of college for African American students, more investment in community colleges and Pell Grants, and the implementation of alternatives to Affirmative Action for increasing diversity in states where Affirmative Action has been banned.
October 8 2015
Scientific study shows that when white people hear
"Black" names they imagine big, violent criminals
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151007110735.htm
Scientific study shows that when white people hear
"Black" names they imagine big, violent criminals
UCLA researchers found that white people envisioned men with stereotypically black names like Jamal or DeShawn as bigger and more violent compared to men with stereotypically white names.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151007110735.htm
October 8 2015
Scientific study shows that when white people hear
"Black" names they imagine big, violent criminals
UCLA researchers found that white people envisioned men with stereotypically black names like Jamal or DeShawn as bigger and more violent compared to men with stereotypically white names.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151007110735.htm
Some "Black" people hear "Black sounding names and say they won't hire them!
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Bigotry can be used in many ways.
What you, and many on here are doing is a form of it.
It's cool because I know who you take your orders from.
You prefer a white slave owner who believes in your ideology.
That's your right.
Democrat debate = a bunch of old white folks talking about things they are not going to do.
Enjoy your slave masters.
Enjoy your slave masters.
Is that how you see Republicans too or is it just Black people who vote for Democrats that are slaves?
I easily dismiss the other GOP candidates (except Kasich, savy dude that one is) but Carson...I want to fight Ben Carson.
Here's a Black man who became the best at what he did not by being the fastest or the strongest but by being the smartest in the room every day.
Now look at him. Posturing and saying completely ridiculous things for the applause and money of Fox News.
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Sad and infuriating at the same damn time.
They do have Clarance Thomas.
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